Mielr said:

Some may have interpreted your characterization as gay-bashing, which might explain why they decided to ban you, (regardless of their explanation). That's a big PC no-no, especially if he really is gay or transgendered.

Personally, I can't stand TFN or the attitude of most there, so as a female, I wouldn't refer to the behavior by those at TFN as "girly" (especially when the word is used as a pejorative) mainly because I'm fairly sure most of the posters there are male, and DO act like adolescent and pre-adolescent boys tend to act on occasion.

Besides, you're giving them a lot of credit, assuming that there's a whole lot of "grown men" there! ;-)

I think that "gay bashing" was what they were, like, coyly hoping I was going to do so that they could wag their little fingers and act even more indignant and self-righteous.

My basic worldview is that you're allowed to make observations; that observing things, stating observations, and being curious in general is a good thing. So, like, I don't know why everybody is supposed to silent about the fact that, ya know, Dave Filoni is effeminate. I mean, everybody has eyes and ears and so they've observed it, too. We observe that George Lucas has gotten fat and kind of Jabba-ish in the past decade and nobody has issues making digs about that. I guess that people are supposed to lie about dudes being effeminate. I don't know.

Thanks for exuding at least a bit of sympathy, though. It was kind of weird to tell the story here and just read still more, "Oh no he di'int!" fake outrage from people. I guess Western men don't have any real emotion anymore, so faking feeling is the only way to project humanity to others.

(As far as the age of the dudes at TFN goes, they're usually listed at the people's profiles there. I definitely haven't done a full survey or anything, but the average does seem to be a male well past 20, for sure.)