Um, aren't just about all of the mods here at WC skinners also? ("Skinners" is a term frequently used by people who seem to be generally less full of themselves as those who rather self-consciously refer to themselves as "artists" as if every swirly or glassy thingamabob is the equivalent [or better] of the Sistine Chapel).
I guess skinners who are also mods (or even---gasp---Admins) are just those everyday mundane folk who should be used to be taking the knocks and criticisms as they toil at their plebian labors. Where's my wall? I submitted something yesterday, why isn't it available for view and download by now? What evil mod screwed my download count? What evil mod screwed my ratings? That sort of thing. This attitude toward the mods/Admins reminds me of people who figure that people working in retail evidently can't get better jobs so it's ok to treat them like they're crap, regarding them as draft horses only fit to labor for the benefit of the more refined sort of folks, their "customers" i.e., "artists."
Or perhaps "artistes" is better used to signify those with such superior sensibilities/sensitivities who evidently believe this particular "specialness" allows them to behave however they wish and say whatever they want to without being subject to the same treatment or responses that would be directed to the mere mortals (i.e., the "not artiste" site members aka the unworthy knuckle draggers). Armed with presumably some sort of Nietzschean sense of superiority and entitlement they can behave badly, spout twaddle, insult others and then when someone calls them on it, here it goes, "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Really, I would say we're all adults here, but clearly not. Some of the youngsters (teens)
show far more sense and maturity than some of the so-called mature adults. (Who evidently are gathered even now at their club house throwing taunts and talking “stuff” at their "rivals."
That story was best done so long ago that it's real old hat although the updating and musical score by Leonard Bernstein is a classic.
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I've often previously thought that all this heavy emoting about "sensitive artists having their feelings hurt" is just a BS cover for unmitigated solipsism, self absorption, a lack of a sense of proportionality and perspective (a rather curious failing in an "artist" I would think) and a blatant disregard for others' feelings and sensibilities.
Oh, but that’s right: no mods and admins here are “artists,” just skinners (aka the not-hired help).
