Woke up a few mornings ago to a message from the admin of a Facebook group where I’ve been sharing my work, telling me he’d removed me.
For what? A combination of offenses, including being “extremely irritating.”
So, what was my intolerably annoying behavior?
Oversharing my content?
Criticizing or ridiculing other members’ posts?
Being rude to people when challenged, as I often was, in the comment section?
No. Sharing my work itself. With its maddening—maddening!—content.
A shot:
I guess I won’t expect a card from him at Christmas.
It’s funny he should say “so unpersuasive.” I didn’t plan on sharing the following, but I sent my Hermia essay to several of my academic peers, and here’s what they thought.
A UBC prof said,
A very persuasive piece. You make a great observation, one that I hadn’t paid attention to before, that there is no mention of Hermia’s “darkness” until Lysander's sight has been altered…
You show why it is important--to the degree that it is possible--to look at the plays with fresh eyes.
A Harvard prof said,
It’s a solid read, and largely accords with my understanding of the situation.
A prof at the University of Roehampton said,
I read this with great pleasure…. I do agree with your argument that this is a sign of Lysander’s delusion – that makes a lot of sense… Very thought-provoking.
By contrast, for the admin, my text-based, thesis-driven analysis was, well, the final straw.
I won’t say I got canceled. It’s too small-scale for that.
But extreme agitation and orneriness at a piece that, as someone else on that page was kind enough to say, was “carefully researched” and “carefully presented”?
Foreshadowing.
Which is why I’m on Sub from the get-go.
Facebook groups are the 21st Century version of Lord of the Flies.
That's hilarious! Welcome to the joys of FB. I left it as soon as I retired from a job that required I administrate a page, and I never looked back!
The irony of the terrible grammar of the admin of this (supposedly) literary group was not lost on me either🤣😂.