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It's really annoying when people go on and on about a subject you know a lot about, and they quite clearly know very little and are wrong about many things, but you have to listen to them because 'everyone is entitled to their opinion'. I had this experience yesterday, when I was in a debate with someone about the implications of the BBC threatening to pull its channels from BSkyB. Now, this is my job. But they didn't see that as a reason that I might be any more right than them. It used to piss me off no end also when people would give advice about music and the band. Fucking endlessly. Everyone's pet subject, you see. 'You should send a demo tape to record companies'. 'You should dress like X'. 'You should play a festival'. 'You need to sharpen your sound'. I really used to hate that.
josh_the_cat in adjectivemarcus's journal.It's really annoying when people go on and on about a subject you know a lot about, and they quite clearly know very little and are wrong about many things, but you have to listen to them because 'everyone is entitled to their opinion'. I had this experience yesterday, when I was in a debate with someone about the implications of the BBC threatening to pull its channels from BSkyB. Now, this is my job. But they didn't see that as a reason that I might be any more right than them. It used to piss me off no end also when people would give advice about music and the band. Fucking endlessly. Everyone's pet subject, you see. 'You should send a demo tape to record companies'. 'You should dress like X'. 'You should play a festival'. 'You need to sharpen your sound'. I really used to hate that.
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This isn't exactly the same thing, but I'm reminded of it, the dangers of sounding off on a subject without discerning the level of experience of the audience at all:
Man at The Anvil: "I've been training slaves for five years ... everyone on the SM scene knows gay men are the best dominants ... I expect this all looks a bit frightening to you, I understand how it is for newbies ... I trained a priest once."
[Okay, so I was dressed as a sub and there on my own. All I'd said was that I'd been to SM Bi the previous week.]
Him: "Um, what's that scar on your arm from?"
Me: "My last Master branded me¹."
Him: "Ohmigod! Why did you let him do that - didn't it hurt?"
Me: "Why do you think?"
He went pale and walked off.
¹ Not true.
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