If I can throw my two cents' worth in here, I just read the entire thread and although it purports to be all in good fun, there is a definite sense of disrespect and mean-spiritedness toward anybody who doesn't toe the line. For example, calling people crazies and loons because their "goddess" is being criticized, no matter how YOU intended it, is still exclusionary and rude, IMO.
It's like this thread exist only as an "in" joke for a chosen few -- anybody else is insulted or frozen out if they aren't part of the gang. And despite all the insistence that nobody cares about AJ or JA, ALL the nastiness is directed to AJ, and to anybody who doesn't follow along.
Assuming that people haven't read the thread or don't "get" the humour is also a bit elitist, and the fact that several people have objected to the tone proves my point, I think. I don't see the purpose of these kinds of threads except to cause trouble and ill feeling and it's my opinion there should be another moratorium on them. I expect to get called a "lunatic," a "goddess" lover etc. etc. for saying this but whatever. I've said my piece.
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