I have gotten my first official hate comment. (Well, besides the woman who was extraordinarily upset by my insinuation that American Idol is, in my firm opinion, crap and pointedly decided she wouldn’t bother gracing my husband’s new radio show with her ever valuable listenership because she could not abide by my opinion. I count that more as ignorance than hate, really.) Anyway, I have to say that it’s short, sweet, and to the point. Some one known only as: “danforth collegiate technical institute student” just left me this comment:
YOURE RETARDED
On the one hand it’s not outright hate. On the other hand the message being left in ALL CAPS suggest a certain passion about the statement, like, not only am I retarded, but I’m really fucking retarded. Not to mention their lack of proper punctuation makes it seem like it was incredibly urgent and it was one of those kinds of messages that JUST CAN’T WAIT to show the proper conjunction of “You” and “are.”But you know, despite my struggles with self worth I just can’t bring myself to believe it. I mean, after all, I’m not the one that got to this site by googling “why would I need a lobotomy.” Twice.
Filed under: hAtE mAiL
YOURE NOT RETARDED; YOURE BEAUTIFUL, AND FUNNY, AND WISE AND WON’ERFUL, AND EVERYTHING.
Sorry for shouting, but, ya know, I feel strongly about some things:)
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Now you’re getting hate mail, you’ve really made it. YOURE BLOGGER ELITE, baby!
Stella, mi’love, that there was a perfect comment-complete with judicious caps.
And isn’t it exciting to know that we knew her when…
@MC, hehehe… my favorite part of that is the “AND EVERYTHING” I <3 U 2
@Stella, LOL! Oh yes, soon you’ll see banner ads and when my new book is being released. I do hope that you and MC can make it to one of the book signings. ;)
Tried to respond with some clever put-down of said hate-mailer, but really I’m just speechless. But I do have to agree with the others, getting hate mail just might be a sign that you’ve arrived.
I dunno, Sketch-maybe we could form some sort of support group and send hate mail to each other. Kind of like “The Secret,” right? I mean, if we can beeeeleeeeve that we are hated, success will come to us. heh heh.
Off to make my infomercial now, see ya!
That’s awesome. I really love how people expect to be taken seriously with a statement like that. Everyone wants their 15 minutes and some of them have to be jerks about it.
You know you’ve made it when you get your first hate mail… I got mine from a girl who wanted me to know that “no one cares” and also that I am “sh*t” (she used a star and everything, because you want to be offensive, but not too offensive right?!)
I had a really good giggle over it because she went right through my archives in order to leave her hatemail, and that implys that maybe she does care a little…
I love it, seriously. It does mean you have arrived. And the misuse of punctuation makes it even better, and means the person is going straight to hell, as all apostrophe mis-users do.
By the way, someone reached my site the other day by googling “raccoon porn”. Seriously. I’m not sure which is creepier, the fact that someone actually googled that, or the fact that my website is the destination for such a google…
p.s. your not retarded