So when I returned home today, there was a special message just for me left on the voicemail. I rarely get a voicemail on the land line, so I eagerly checked it while saying hello to the cat.
Turns out a certain someone from some blog didn’t like how I commented on a post earlier today in regards to the Plame case. The post the person wrote was rather drawn out and meaningfully confusing. It was the first time I had been to the site, and I liked the writing. Hell, I even put the blog in my favorites, under blogs. The comment I left was exactly as follows:
Uhm…. what? I think I’ll have to read that again. Or at least spew it out to some other people.
That’s it in its entirety. This comment so upset the person that wrote the post that he looked up my home telephone number (no doubt by going to internic or something similar) and left a voicemail asking me not to post on their site again, then stated that “you really are a stupid cunt.”
I personally thought an email would have sufficed.
Unfortunately, I deleted the voicemail immediately after listening to it, and being rather pensive, I just sat and thought about what I could have possibly done to make this person so pissed off at me. Then I realized that I really don’t care. The comment was given in a joking manner. Though I can see how things can be misconstrued online because there’s nothing like tone of voice or body language, I can’t imagine how anyone could have taken something like that so seriously as to think it a personal jab and want to spend the 5 cents to call a complete stranger long distance to call her a “stupid cunt.”
I’m obviously not posting the url to the site here. If you want to go to the trouble of finding it, you can. I won’t be visiting again, true to the person’s demand. I just really don’t care enough for people like that to even warrant giving them more traffic.
Jeezus that's creepy. Makes me think twice about blogging. For about a nanosecond.
Posted by: Auntie Sarah at January 30, 2004 7:15 AM