Apparently my whole Book People/fat girl incident story made it to the front page of Reddit somehow. Yay. I have no idea how this happened, and frankly I hope it never does again. Now there are dozens of people discussing what a judgmental "hipster douchebag fattie" I am and how the woman who insulted me was "just telling the truth" and how I should be okay with that. There are even people who have decided I made the whole thing up--apparently I'm too good a writer to be telling the truth. Wow.

It's invited a lot of very nice comments--thank you, everyone who stopped by to read that post and enjoyed it. Unfortunately it's also brought out of the woodwork some...well, assholes, to be blunt. So I'm disabling comments on that post. I don't run this blog for random click-by invective from people who don't know or care about Wicca but just want someone to feel superior to. This is my blog--it exists for me to feel superior. *laugh*

And just to set the record straight: at no time have I ever said I wasn't judgmental. I am highly judgmental. I am prone to snap assumptions about people just like everyone else. This is what happens when you're a human being.

Also: the phrase en flambe is French. Typically when you use foreign phrases in English writing you italicize them. It wasn't supposed to indicate emphasis. Of all the shit to pick on about that story, that was kind of weak.

Furthermore: Comparing two things is not the same as equating them. If I compare thee to a summer's day that doesn't mean you are a summer's day. Comparing racism to sizeism is not saying one is Bigger Badder Oppression than the other. All forms of hatred and oppression diminish us. Similar and identical are not synonyms.

And: When you're commenting on someone's blog and want to be taken seriously, you might try things like grammar and using the shift key, and not COMMENTING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A SIXTH-GRADER.

That's all I have to say about that.

We now return to our regularly scheduled hipster douchebag fattie programming.