To the Assclown Who Said “Have Some Humility”
Ladies? Fuck yeah, you deserve more and BETTER.
There’s this contingent of commenters I simply refer to as “The Manbabies of Medium”.
They have bland, generic names and those gray no-face avatars, or a colored circle with a singular letter. They’re not here for dialogue. They’re here to shit-stir and nothing more.
Sometimes, they come for my pieces. Which is fine so long as they’re paying members and I get that meter running whether it’s a fervent fan or a troll frothing at the mouth, with his dick about to fall off because a woman wrote things on the Internet.
But lately, they’ve been coming for OTHER women writers’ pieces, which I happen to have comments on. Descending like a pack of locusts, they’re swarming all over those comments and Medium sees it fit to send me notifications of these events straight to my business inbox instead of fans and respectful debaters leaving responses. My toads can’t eat the locusts fast enough, so they keep dropping eggs.
Most of the time, I just ignore the comments and proceed to block the ever-prattling manbabies. They’re not worth the time and energy, whatever I gotta say won’t be taken in good faith so I just delete the email and go on with…
