Why be unkind?

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You have equal access, there is nothing that has been done to exclude you, and there are no weak excuses. The fact is you are in a community where this word has been used for good and bad for over 400 years, so it was around a long time before any of us were born.

Mate, I'm not trying to make trouble, simply telling it like it is.

I don't like the word, I don't identify with the word, I very rarely use the word, but to INCLUDE myself in a community it is one of those things that each and every single person has to learn to deal with.

So I ask you WHO IS EXCLUDING YOU? We have welcomed you, we have embraced you, we have listened to you, we have responded to you, but you ask each and everyone one of us to 'change our ways'? Is that fair?

I personally feel that no one here has excluded you. You have excluded yourself over a word that is very rarely used in GaySpeak. I haven't seen the word used in general discussions here until you used it so in effect you have created a discussion that has excluded yourself where there are thousands of other discussion you could be involved in and be INCLUDED.

So I ask you have we not done our utmost to INCLUDE you and is it not yourself that is EXCLUDING you?

Thank you for what you have said, but I think it is different for this reason. The few times it has been close to being tested as a legal matter, the other party backed down. Having won more than once, I think I have established it is a matter of equal eccess. If you would like I can explain the circumstances better, and you can tell me what you think.
Thank you again for telling me plainly what you believe.