User blog comment:IEmbargo/On Shippers and Shipping - Part Five/@comment-24169317-20131224235300/@comment-14284535-20131227170412

The last paragraph of part 5 is the key: I screwed myself up emotionally by being too Spock-like as a kid. I have seen friendships and marriages fall apart over shipping. I know people who contemplated suicide over their ship not happening in a TV show. I want people to learn perspective. Whether Seddie happens or not should not affect your self-worth or affect your emotional perspective. I was bothered when my friends's kids were either tearful or exuberant over the Creddie kiss in iGoodbye. I hope that by giving these points of view, then people can temper their feelings on the matters.

Also, I am a trained researcher who has writting papers that are hundreds of pages long. These arguments are not that long by comparison. ;-)