I have something I want to talk about because it sort of disturbs me and I also find it very interesting. I have a comment stalker on Doxie News. A while back we had a huge argument in the comments for a post. She got so personal and insulting that I had to halt comments for the post. After that her and her friends tried posting comments on other posts. Not to continue to the discussion, but to insult me about whatever that other post was about. What’s funny is that those comments would include vicious personal attacks and then accuse me of attacking them somehow. Those comments were deleted.
At first I left the big argument comments because I thought at the end of it all I looked pretty good and she and her friends looked really bad. I was even going to annotate the comments because their comments were so crazy that it was kind of funny. However, when I started annotating, I realized that their comments made no sense, so much so that I couldn’t really even figure out what they were saying. One sentences would contradict their previous sentence or they would say just outrageous things that really made no sense whatsoever. It was exactly the same type of thing as the people who will rant on and on about Barack Obama being a secret Muslim or not being born in the United States.
What I started to realize was that these people were quite possibly mentally ill in some way. Not in a tragic sad way, but in a sort of evil way. And that made me just want to delete the comments even though they made me look good. I didn’t want to clutter up my blog with comments which I couldn’t even parse.
The comments are gone for good, but from memory, they said I was a bad person (literally, they said I was a bad person). That I force fed my dog treats. That my dog wasn’t as close to me as I thought he was. That I was ignorant. And, I love this, that I was personally going to cause an end to everything. That’s right, everything.
This morning, the woman came back again and posted another personal attack comment out of the blue. What’s funny is even though the post had nothing to do with her she also somehow made it out to be a personal attack on her. She said something like, “I don’t do that!” I thought to myself, “Who said you did? This isn’t even about you! In fact it seems pretty clearly to be about people other than you and it’s not even remotely insulting to them either.” I feel like it’s the movie Aliens where you finally get the alien out of the airlock but then it just keeps banging on the door and you wonder if it will ever just go away.
It scares me that there are people like this who are so stuck in their hate that they seem to find something to hate anywhere. I don’t want to get into it, but I think it’s important to note that they were so angry because I was talking about trying to save dogs lives and make dogs healthier. That’s why I think there might be some sort of mental illness at work here, because it doesn’t even make sense. I have learned, but as is the case with many lessons, this isn’t a lesson I thought I was going to have to learn.