For more than four years I've been a part -- and a founding member -- of what I used to think was the coolest, smartest parenting bbs online. And in the last few days three of the people I considered smart, interesting posters to it have viciously attacked someone else, who frankly I didn't care about one way or the other, she never bothered me, but who has now left and rightly so.
What I DO care about, and what is really shaky right now, is the entire tone of the board, which has suddenly turned into somewhere I don't much want to be. They were among the first people to hear Trixie's birth story, some of the first to know I was pregnant again and I've met some really terrific people there. But at the moment I don't really know if I'll so much as post when the Passenger is born. I'm that pissed off. Because if three seemingly intelligent, cool people can turn out to be such assholes, then I don't know anything about that place or those people.
Echo's had its share of NBTs, and I've weathered those just fine, but I really thought this was a better place. Now they're all posting their "apologies" and talking about how much they've learned about themselves and it just makes me ill. How long before they're patting themselves on the back for running off this woman who they didn't like? Gahhhh.