User blog comment:3cooldog92/A Very Important Moment in iWin a Date Revisited/@comment-4542190-20111124100459/@comment-3247345-20111126081033

With regard to the first part of your post, Neonpink said it perfectly. Not every opinion statement needs to be accompanied by "I think" or "in my opinion", especially in a blog like this. Every teacher I've had from 1st grade to college has told me that when making arguments like this doing so weakens the argument. They all said that you state it like a fact, even if it's an opinion. In this case, if I would have added that the argument would have sounded weaker. Not to mention the fact that it would have made the sentence sound horrible and probably would have been bad grammar. Saying that that Freddie only thought he loved Carly is not offensive. It wasn't meant to be either. It was just a little thing on the side. It does make a point. It is not the main point, however. The main point was that the sad face Sam made is huge for her character development.

You say that that you didn't come looking for trouble. I believe you. But when you go off on me for 4 words out of a 1,249 word blog, without responding to the main point I made (that the moment was an important piece of character development for Sam), it kind of sounds like you are looking for trouble. Like I said, I know you didn't come looking for trouble. I'm not accusing you of doing so. But when you off on me for one tiny part of the blog and don't respond to the main point, it makes it look like you did come to start something.

"Can't Seddiers support their ideas, their beliefs without being offensive to Creddiers?"

I find this very amusing. Out of all the Creddie arguments that have not been rendered obsolete by events in the show, the vast majority are thinly disguised anti Seddie arguments. The vast majority of the anti Seddie arguments are really just anti Sam. The anti-Sam arguments (such as "Sam is evil", "Sam is heartless" "Sam is a psychopath", etc.), beside the fact that that the show proves them wrong, are Sam bashing. Most Seddie shippers consider Sam their favorite character. They get offended when people trash her. In other words, it's offensive. Seddie, on the other hand, has relevant arguments that don't bash Carly. When a Seddie shipper does bash Carly or Creddie, they get criticized by fellow Seddie shippers. In light of all this this, I find that quote very funny.

About your point about children reading this, both Neonpink and I have established what I said was not offensive. If it were offensive, I would hope that the child would also read the other 1,245 words in the blog. I would hope that they would read the whole thing and think about the point I was trying to get across. I would hope that they would appreciate the character development in the moment I pointed to in light of what I said. Then, if they decided to comment, I would hope that they would comment on the main point instead of one little thing I said on the side. The blog was not meant to make the moment a Seddie moment or a Creddie moment. It was to get people to appreciate what that moment did for the development of Sam's character. Whether the reader ships Seddie, Creddie, or anything else should be irrelevant.

Regarding the point you made about the moment where Freddie introduces the special web show segment. You seem to be disputing a claim I never made. You’re acting like I said that the episode as whole isn't Creddie. I never said that. I never said that the episode as whole is Seddie or Creddie. The moment you point to also was not the subject of this blog. This blog was focused on that one little moment where Sam made a sad face after Carly said "It must be awful to love someone who doesn't love you back". By pointing to a moment that I made no mention of, you're acting like I was making a statement about the episode as a whole. I wasn't trying to say anything about the episode as whole. The only reason the name of the episode is mentioned is because it happened to occur in that episode. By mentioning the name it makes it easier for people to recall the moment and if necessary go back and look for themselves at the moment I was referring to. Anything besides that sad face is beyond the scope of this blog. All that said, Neonpink does a very good job proving what you said false.

@Neonpink THANK YOU! I'm glad that you see that statement for what it is. Many of the things you said I couldn't have said better myself. You're really helping me out here. Again, THANK YOU!