I think I've kind of given up on the civility thing. Parents that care enough to find out about these places will read enough to at least get a sense of some of the people and seek them out privately for information. If they don't, they won't. Plenty have. I've yelled at 'the guys' before, but seriously.....with dolts like The Who and Karen running around....what's the use? Like I said, those that care enough will seek out the information. Those that don't, won't.
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And I'm goddamn sick and tired of coddling and catering to these fucking people!!! I had to do that for waaaaayyyyyyy too fucking long.
How dare you allow your 'personal' issues get in the way of our united front against child abuse - shame on you!
If parents perecive ANY of us to be the slightest bit out of their norm, or less than straight edge, we have failed and they will send their children off.
This is not a forum, it's theater. We have to put on a good show for parents in order to achieve our aim. Now I know some of you are saying, why can't we just be honest and say what we think? Because parents will not stay around and then we lose them forever to the bowels of this industry!
So please, shape up. No more threads about pot smoking, getting drunk, fucking asian prosittutes, none of that please. No more profanity, no more glofifying stories about drugs and violence. Time to bow your head and take your place as the a pawn of the activists who need to make up for their previous mistakes. Dont say anything. Just stand there and look pretty and say you agree with everything I say, since you obviously arent capable of civil discussion due to your lifetime of issues.
If you dont want to do that then act as crazy as you can. Then parents will think any kid they send to a program will end up crazy. If TSW acts crazy then parents will think staff at these places are crazy. WOW. what an effective strategy.
So.. places actors. we got a live audience of parents out there.. scene one, take two.. lights, camera... ACTION!