Antiseptic,

It seems to me after reading of past skirmishes in OLO vaults that "one" person seems to be unloading all the incendiary rhetoric. This person's posting style is extremely identifiable - even when posting on behalf of a group (mob) as any number of identities. I surmise that it is not a case a "both groups", but a revisitation from a disaffected personality.

You're probably right, Poirot. Sad, because she seems to genuinely care about the way animals are treated during the live export process and most of the time she's a pretty good contributor I think.

Dear Antiseptic,

Are men or women bigger bullies?

I Googled this topic just out of curiousity
after your reference to "middle-aged women."

The following website gave some interesting
insights:

http://curiousity.discovery.com/question/are-men-women-bigger-bullies

It seems that gender stereotypes still exist in our perceptions.
But as we know this doesn't allow for individual differences.
Women are supposed to be more submissive and less aggressive
which supposedly leaves them open as targets. And men are supposed to
be more sensitive to criticism, so they;re likely to bear grudges
and then act on them. However does that ring true in real life?

I guess we can only judge from our own experiences. As the site I
gave states, "Finnish researcher Kaj Bjorkqvist...discovered girls
instead of fighting on the playground ...play subtle mind games that
can cause more damage than a black eye...Both genders share certain
motivations - the need for attention, fear of competition and often
anger about how they're treated..."

cont'd...

My apologies for the typo.

The website I cited should have read:

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/are-men-women-bigger-bullies

Not reason to be concerned but thanks.
I agree both groups, those who followed the links,seem to be one person with a few Friends.
I have resolved my issue.
Small village this.
A person with my sir name was visited by some one, not in my view a member of that group, a supporter.
My phone rang telling me I was to get a visit.
It would appear my visitor pictured an old and feeble man.
On letting himself in my gate he found my name sharer wanted to come too, he had followed.
I convinced the person, some apparent mental health issues he did not truly want to stay he agreed.
Those links, if any still exist, show a forum that hosted several of our ex posters.
It shows the animal welfare group and DNA is hard not to see.
Remarkable that in a thread about Bullying we saw some.

Just had a snoop at that other site which has nothing to do with OLO. The link to the thread Anti referenced some time back no longer works. From memory that thread repeated identifying detail about Belly. I wonder when that was removed.

A thread adding decidedly one sided comments on parts of this thread is at http://www.opiniononlineforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=514

Another started by the Administrator has not gone far http://www.opiniononlineforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=516

Wondering how some of the posts on the site would hold up if that unnamed organisation ever goes ahead with a legal challenge for discussions taking place here.

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