Free To Satire? Not in Yahoo!

In Yahoo critical speech is not allowed, but in America, satire is protected speech. Does it bother you that Yahoo (as in Red China) speech must never criticize the answers to a given question?

Here was the offensive answer (which got reported, and removed:)

"A poem well within a question and contextual to it within, is without guidelines of questions qua questions and / or answer qua answers, if either pertain to the question of the first part, as a question with a category pertained to poetry of the second part -- I'm getting a headache. Give it to Lord Bafflegab."

Here is the question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Avcq6oXPQ2naCzFLkZcOLhDty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120513160254AA9KKVa

Also this relates to anti-bullying policy as an attack on free speech. Would the famous Hustler Magazine satire of Jerry Fallwell be considered bullying in the modern environment?

See my anti-bullying essay:

http://hiramunleashed.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-anti-bullying-another-form-of.html

See past use of anti-bullying techniques (as bullying techniques) in YAP:

http://hiramsrants.blogspot.com/2012/02/after-declaring-that-she-or-he-had.html

[I have disavowed any attempts to besmirch Scooter with this page as he/she was apparently unaware of the effect of their words and removed them when made aware.] 

Anyhow, the abuse goes merrily forward. Sanctioned by Red China -er I mean Yahoo!

Have The Animals Taken Over the Yahzoo?

The crowds
do not murmur anymore
The only sound is a crow's caw
echo-locating the last
peacock's bones.
The lions are hungry
But the apes
won't come down from the trees.
Doesn't matter.
The puma can climb
and rip the fur
off their sun-burnt necks.
A snake slithers by delighted.

Lovers Leap - A redraft

Lovers Leap

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Meet me at the top of the staircase

Where we can jump into brilliant light

Just this side of paradise

Slake my yearning to fly, hold on tight.






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Meet me at the top,

Where God gave me wings
 
Flying in purblind bliss
 
Things that make me soar
 
Your eye, your touch, your kiss.






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So meet me atop that staircase
 
What a beautiful day, and wondrous night
 
Heaven's gait, you by my side
 
Could suicide be this right?




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Meet me at the top of the staircase....




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A rewrite of a poem by Girly:  See The Original

Advice from Solace Befriends

SapphireAngel's question:  Am I selfish? Feel very worried.?

 

I have been struggling with my younger sisters mental illness alone and told a colleague briefly about it in a text. I had previously said I was very stressed and she asked why so I told her. She never replied and now I am worried she doesn't want to know me anymore because of my family circumstance.
I am always there for her and although she is going through her own problems at the moment, I thought it would be OK to tell her. Was that a selfish decision on her part and is her silence because of this?

 

Solace Befriend's Answer:

No one can answer what your colleague's intentions are in her silence. A) she may be busy, B) She may be in her own crisis, C) She may have had a one way relationship with you where you listened to her problems but she can't do the same, D) or maybe she is overwhelmed by your issues and needs some space.

I would advise treating the situation as if she as a person has a right to take some space for whatever reasons and not make it a reflection on your conversation

If the friendship continues in the future is a mystery, but allowing them to do what they need to do is what a friend would do. It is not selfish to make everything about ourselves, it is a natural response. To step above that and allow others to do what they need to do, is in the end better self-care.

Egotistical Selfishness: Running around with a rubber stamp saying "ME" and making everything about me: my friend, my needs, my work, my role...

Self-Centered Selfishness: Putting my needs first and focusing INWARDS, so that I can stand on my own two feet and have anything INSIDE to give to others.

If you were sinking in quicksand the Egoist is useless (too far off balance focusing outwards) but the Self-Centered one could be a lifesaver.

Be the second kind of selfish, not the first. Take Care of yourself and don't worry what others are thinking. It is none of our business what others think of us.

The Source of the above:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120505085812AAKgiu4