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[lollardfish]

There's a post out there today of a "friend" (not someone I actually know that well) who has been out of touch with LJ.

He's asking for updates because, "If there's something you've been assuming I know because you wrote about it on LJ and in the past I've reliably read your LJ, you might want to point it out to me. Alternately, you can just regard me as the retard in the corner who never knows what's going on."

I find this metaphor infuriating and offensive, although I know that as with most such things he means nothing by it. What's the best response? Ignore? Post something publicly in comments? Send a private email? Write an LJ post of my own about how offensive I find it and hope someone reads it?

What do you think?

Edit - I posted what I hope was both a polite and firm comment.

Comments

[neogrammarian.livejournal.com]

lol, boy you Do work at a Catholic school, don't you?

Seriously, I'd ask if he's a) still in gradeschool or b) still in 1982, and if a)'s the case give him a stern talking to and no dinner, if b's the case, it may be hopeless, and if neither are the case he's gotta get w/the 21st century.

But, then, my father raised us w/the ?sage fatherly advice: 'words mean things, kids, and if you don't watch what you're saying, people're gonna think you're stupid." So I may have a rather more dogmatic view of this situation than others.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He's a funny one ... I'm increasingly angry and shocked that Patrick Nielsen Hayden (wtf, he wrote it in an unlocked post), of all people, would write such an offensive statement. I wrote a polite comment and we'll see if he responds somehow.