Wandering Off Topic

[jassi]

Why these parents though? There is thousands of people being maligned all over social media….cancer sufferers, people with a disability, parents of other missing children, victims of crime…all people deserving of your sympathy and support…why do you defend these particular parents day in day out?

For me it’s not a coincidence that supporters here are all of a certain age and almost exclusively women.

I can understand the age bit - older people generally  have more time on their hands.

[faithlilly]

It was not long after I got my first computer.  I was no longer living in England.  I had spent some nice holidays in Portugal from whence this child disappeared.  I was a bit lonely at the time.  Will that do?

But why these particular parents?

[Eleanor]

But why these particular parents?

Did I have to choose?  Any meany minney mo?

[Brietta]

Did I have to choose?  Any meany minney mo?

The choice was very limited n'est-ce pas.

[G-Unit]

I'm sorry, but who decides whether it's fair or unfair to attack the McCanns. I happen to think it's perfectly fair thankyou & I see no good reason why it wouldn't be.

The same people who decide that everyone who doesn't spend their time wringing their hands and bewailing the McCann's hurt feelings is attacking them.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Why these parents though? There is thousands of people being maligned all over social media….cancer sufferers, people with a disability, parents of other missing children, victims of crime…all people deserving of your sympathy and support…why do you defend these particular parents day in day out?

For me it’s not a coincidence that supporters here are all of a certain age and almost exclusively women.

and there are thousands of other people the world over who have committed far worse crimes than those you believe the McCanns guilty of who have not been brought to justice but you do seem to have fixated on these two for the last 15 years?  Why so? 
You're a woman and no spring chicken yourself so I don't see the relevance of your last sentence.  Most sceptics on here are grannies as far as I can make out, yourself included!

[Vertigo Swirl]

The same people who decide that everyone who doesn't spend their time wringing their hands and bewailing the McCann's hurt feelings is attacking them.

If your real name was known and I and hundreds and thousands of people had spent the last 15 years suggesting online that you'd committed a heinous crime and poring over your every utterance and deed I think maybe then you'd understand but we know you can't imagine being in that situation because you don't do empathy. Strangely though you do view any slight criticism as personal abuse, so maybe you're not as thick skinned as you like to make out. 

[Vertigo Swirl]

Most supporters do approve of the McCanns though. The clue is in the adjectives used; innocent, anguished etc.

Those adjectives do not denote approval, they denote sympathy or simply making a statement of fact.

[faithlilly]

Did I have to choose?  Any meany minney mo?

But you did choose.

[Vertigo Swirl]

But you did choose.

As did you, people in glass houses....

[Eleanor]

But you did choose.

What was going on at the time could hardly be ignored, splashed as it was, all over The Media.

And why should my choice be of any interest to you?

[faithlilly]

What was going on at the time could hardly be ignored, splashed as it was, all over The Media.

And why should my choice be of any interest to you?

Shouldn’t we all be interested in why others hold the views they do?

[Eleanor]

Shouldn’t we all be interested in why others hold the views they do?

It's a bit late for that now.

[faithlilly]

It's a bit late for that now.

I disagree.

[sadie]

Your post won't have been wiped intentionally, Sadie.  It usually occurs if you refresh the page or you go to a different page then return to your message and find it has disappeared completely.  It's happened to me, and no doubt others, many times in the past and is very frustrating, especially if your post is long and you haven't saved it just in case.  A quirk in the site software, I'm afraid.

Thankyou Myster.      That could possibly be the reason.  I shall have to try to rememeber to save it another time.   How do you do that?