I’d like to thank two people: the person who knocked on our door at 1.30 this morning, getting me out of bed and then driving away before I got to the door; and the person who left yesterday’s enthralling comment:
You’re a fat, bourgeois bohemian and your blog sucks like a size-queen.
And I quote. I don’t really know where to start with that one, except to say that Kevin, if you’re listening, you should really put a lot more thought into your insults. I mean, ‘bourgeois’ hardly goes with ‘bohemian’ now does it? You can’t be both… and I’m not fat, not by any stretch of the imagination. And so what if I were? Also, just to make sure he wasn’t calling me ‘queen-size’ I had to look up the phrase ‘size-queen’. And no, it’s not the same thing as ‘queen-size.’ Frankly, I’m not sure I want to tell you what it means, but here’s a link if you’re really interested:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=size-queen
So if you want to insult me, please put some more thought into it than this guy did, otherwise I’ll just laugh and delete you. Although, let’s face it, I’ll probably do that anyway. Moving on… this comment reminded me of a recent news story about Mary Beard. She’s an academic who you’ll probably only have heard of if you listen regularly to ‘In Our Time’ on radio 4
(just me then…)
Anyway she had the temerity to appear on television NOT looking like a babe and was subjected to horrific comments about her appearance via the internet. What makes people think it’s OK to do this? It’s like pelting someone in the stocks – except that if you’re in the stocks at least you have supposedly committed some crime. Mary Beard was later talking in a very dignified way on Woman’s Hour about her response to the abuse. Here’s the original story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/26/mary-beard-question-time-internet-trolls
and here’s the Woman’s Hour programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pztjh
So if you want to insult me go ahead – but be creative. Use words thoughtfully – otherwise your insults will simply be trashed.
Kirk out
Sarada Gray 