I get hate mail

This morning I received the following garbagetribe in my email box in response to my brilliant post about hate blogs.

Hi, Judith, I read you're post, "Bah your hate blogs" this morning and really appreciated it. I wish though that I never had to hear the phrase, "Sorry, I'm not fucking perfect." I lost my dad recently, and this is something he used to say all the time. It really made me feel like I couldn't ever raise any complaints or like I was making ridiculous demands on him when I was just asking him to drive me to school or stop creating emotionally abusive cults online. Needless to say, we had a complicated relationship, but it's been rough. I just lost my job, and I keep wanting to ask my roommate to pay her share of the rent but I'm afraid she'll just be like "Sorry, I'm not perfect!" and then get me evicted somehow. I'm not really sure what to do. When someone brings up something that I do that bothers them, I've started trying to just really listen to them and be responsive instead of just screaming "Sorry, I'm not perfect" and punching them in the face. It's been difficult. That phrase just brings up a lot of different feelings. Talking about it helps though. Thanks for listening.

i get hate mail and my great new idea

[redacted] writes:

Subject: Sorry for expecting you to Do More Work, but

[edited by moderator to add CN: gmail discrimination]

I'm almost as afraid to comment on your blog as I am at TBTSNBN, ;-), but I think this blog--I mean YOU, Judith Shakestown, are really, really, really funny. Your attention to the detail of the language of that other place is what gets me most, but also, your absolutely spot-on take on the mood and attitude of you-know-how. Brav@! p.s. that's my own gender/nongender-inclusive way of praising you. I hope you appreciate the tribute.

btw, I don't have any of the accounts required to comment on the blog, so pleeeeeease forgive me for taking it to your inbox instead of commenting. And feel free to publish this anonymously as a comment on your "About" page, if you want, which is where I was trying to do it. :D

LOLVOMSMASH. WTF. MESUS CHRIST ON A [CN: white hatred] CRACKER. NO. I will tell all of you exactly what I told Mr/Ms/Dr/Elephant Redacted:

Dear [Redacted],

I think YOU are hilarious!

That said, if you had been studiously studying my blog as required before commenting or emailing you would see that I don't have an "About" page because it is not MY job to tell you what MY blog is about. I'm also not going to repost your comment for you [I am going to repost your comment for you] because you're too lazy/fauxgressive to open one of the five fucking accounts required to post it yourself.

I have decided though, of my own accord, an idea that came from my very own brainy brain, to open up the comments to anonymous trolls who don't have googldiedoo accounts, etc. I know, I am full of brilliant ideas that I come up with completely on my own. You are now free to commenty comment with your comments to your queer-brained content. However, you should know that I will hold you in contempt whether you repost your comment or not because it's MY prerogative to feel whatever I feel without input from cunt-nosed yahoo-ers who just want to non-existence me.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

Brainstronaut Judy Shakestown

Time spent composing this e-mail: 300 hours

Now you can see the unmoderated fuckfloodtornado of ridiculousness that I have to deal with on any given Monday of the Judeo-Christian anti-atheist calendar.

On an unrelated note, I had the best idea ever, which is to open comments and make it easier for you to share my your thoughts here since I so clearly LOVE people and all of my shakestownie commenters.