but it's also the kind of paper that sounds REALLY CONVINCING to someone who hasn't actually read the book.
there's a tendency to paint Barcelona as the angels and RM as the Big Bad, and I actually think that's generally unfair to BOTH teams. It sets up unrealistic expectations for one team that they straight up aren't going to always live up to, and villainizes another. i left a longass comment at una's last night saying, essentially, this and got called out to "gtfo with this trolling" ahahahaha.
in retrospect i shouldn't have left the comment. i mean it's a madrid blog, there's going to be a madrid bias, and barca supporters commenting over there is not going to convince anyone of anything. it's just going to make them more defensive when they might not have been all that defensive to begin with. it's true, our team does give us less to apologize for, but i wouldn't be caught dead actually saying this to a madridista's face. that's the definition of wankbait right there.
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Date: 2010-12-01 08:28 pm (UTC)there's a tendency to paint Barcelona as the angels and RM as the Big Bad, and I actually think that's generally unfair to BOTH teams. It sets up unrealistic expectations for one team that they straight up aren't going to always live up to, and villainizes another.
i left a longass comment at una's last night saying, essentially, this and got called out to "gtfo with this trolling" ahahahaha.
in retrospect i shouldn't have left the comment. i mean it's a madrid blog, there's going to be a madrid bias, and barca supporters commenting over there is not going to convince anyone of anything. it's just going to make them more defensive when they might not have been all that defensive to begin with. it's true, our team does give us less to apologize for, but i wouldn't be caught dead actually saying this to a madridista's face. that's the definition of wankbait right there.
<3 you both