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Here is exactly how you deal with some guy writing in to tell you you're too fat: delete the email and get on with your life. It's simple, it's easy, it solves
by pbateman 13y ago
Here is exactly how you deal with some guy writing in to tell you you're too fat: delete the email and get on with your life.
It's simple, it's easy, it solves the problem.
Of course it's not the modern solution of publicly bullying your correspondent into a retraction while claiming the moral high ground but it works and it's less unpleasant.
- icecreampain 13y agoUsing your solution will not get the complainant the media time the person so very much craves.
- gizmo686 13y agoIn the language of the article, shouldn't that be "post-modern"?
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoIt is, of course, important to pick one's battles; but wherever possible, bullshit should be called out and dragged into the light, not quietly tolerated. Especially when, as in this case, it is widespread, entrenched, pernicious bullshit. And you've got the "bullying" backwards. It wasn't Ms. Livingston doing it. You should know by now that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is a comforting lie we tell to children.