I find this thread fascinating.
I haven't posted much, because I didn't feel I belonged here. This thread was explicitly designed for people who dislike m/m tickling. I am not one of those people, so I've been rather silent unless it was as a moderator. But I have been reading, and I've watched this thread go careening off course as I predicted. I honestly welcomed this thread as a place for people with preferences that differ from mine and others to speak their opinions in an appropriate place,
where someone asked for their opinion. I hoped it wouldn't turn into yet another thread where people with a legit stance had to defend themselves. Ah well. Apparently this can't be discussed without it devolving into that. I don't understand that really, but I digress...
Personally I've never expected to change a non-m/m enthusiast's mind. I'll definitely challenge them on a few facts about it, and I'll ask them, rather vocally, to not say negative things to annoy me in threads that promote it, but I would no more expect them to change their minds than I would expect someone to finally convince me to like football (I live in Ohio and the whole life-overtaking Buckeye mania makes me nauseous every darn year

). If you ask me, I'll tell you that I think grown men running into each other on purpose is goofy. But only if you *ask* me. (and if you're not my ex-football player boyfriend who never needs another reason to spank me...
🙄 ) I don't go bothering people in football threads, I don't harrass my friends who have parties to watch the games, and I bite my tongue when the guy on the treadmill next to me at the gym scares the crap outta me screaming at the game on the overhead tv.
Because spoiling their fun with my comments would be immature and in poor taste. Do I have a right to my opinion? Absolutely. Is it better for everyone to keep that opinion to myself unless asked? Absolutely. Bringing down someone else's positive experience serves only the most selfish of purposes.
Guys, seriously: all m/m fans, or f/m fans or m/wookie fans or whatever, ask is to be allowed to enjoy their clips and threads and such in peace. Please do not confuse your right to express yourself with the right to add needless negativity. I don't mean threads where your opinion is asked for and valuable however others may disagree, I mean threads where debate is not the purpose and frankly no one asked you.
/Bellarant