I hereby take the following pledge:
I promise not to look you up on the internet using Google or any other search engine, then post a link to your name, address or other personal information. I also promise not to post disparaging comments about you however couched to make them “appear complimentary” and then claim it was just a joke, or an exercise of my right to free speech in the comments section of another blog that called me out for being a royal jerk. And I would never follow that post up with a second one which implicitly suggests your misdeeds are the equivalent of a mother arrested for neglecting her children, or to the people who allegedly caused a young woman to commit suicide.
And it’s not because I’m a liberal or a conservative or an alien from Mars. It’s not because of any “peculiar aesthetic” on my part either. It’s because doing stuff like this to hurt another person, invading their privacy in this way merely to satisfy some weird desire for revenge, is just flat wrong.
You know the difference between right and wrong, don’t you. It’s what most of us were taught in pre-school or Kindergarten, at the latest. It’s most basic expression is the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s something even an asshole misogynist like this guy should be able to recognize.
At least you’d like to think so.
(Hat tip to Rumproast)
Update [2007-11-18 11:49:53 by Steven D]: Dan Collins has finally removed the link to the woman’s personal information. So Dan, thank you for finally doing the decent thing.
Dude had nothing better to do, I guess.
Well that’s one way of looking at it, lol.
I guess we might be able to guess why they parted ways: he’s an asshole.
one of the shining lights of the assholosphere © david neiwert…aka: flaming asshole.
the ‘peter principal‘ at work.
some great comments at tbogg’s too.
lTMF’sA
Dude is incoherent.
You know I think he’s an attention whore, and he doesn’t care if he gets negative or positive attention. His excuses for what he did as ridiculous as they are lame.
What kind of sad little man would do something like this?
That’s a rhetorical question for anyone visiting from that bastion of intellectual integrity, Protein Wisdom.
i think he might just be stupid.
I love the “I’m doing her a favor, and she’ll appreciate it” rationale.
this asshole doesn’t have issues…he’s got a lifetime subscription.
makes one wonder if this was precipitated by a rejected attempt at a reconciliatory tryst…[scorned again]…back to the basement with a bag of cheetos.
bet those orange stains aren’t easy to get off…
l wouldn’t be surprised to see the cheetos corps sycophants over here shortly.
really gotta go…later
lTMF’sA
I guess that’s one of the hazards of being a right-winger. They’re not supposed to make sense.
Seems to me the guy is looking for some consolation since his former girlfriend went on to be a doctor and left him in the dust, without a cut of her income.
And how passive-aggressive can you get…”I really just wish her well”…if he wished her well, he wouldn’t have used her as a means to get himself some attention on a Saturday afternoon.
In comments at the Rumproast blog he says he hasn’t seen her since 1986. Which makes me wonder why 21 years later he decides to out her like this, much less claim he’s doing her a favor.
he just say he was drunk and ask for forgiveness.
he ‘should’ say….
“hiccup”
no offense of course,
just laughing at the irony of something I would do too….you know…fucking up a sentence.
I think I’d publicize some concern over the state of his itty bitty penis if I were her. You know, just because she’s a doctor and everything. Nothing personal, of course.
And then she’d just be looking out for him by letting him know that there are drugs available to treat premature ejaculation…
I simply do not understand that level of malevolence, nor do I understand the lack of self awareness that permits someone to post something like that.
Eh. Guys like that give morons a bad name.
from reading your post, stephen, i could tell that you were talking about someone on the net, probably a wingnut, that did exactly what you were saying you would never do.
he sounded petty, mean, vicious and immature. so i thought i’d click one of your links and see who you were talking about.
thank god for that wonderful internet technical device that lets me place my cursor over the link and read the url at the bottom bar of my screen.
as soon as i saw the words “protein wisdom,” not only did your entire post make sense, but i lost all curiousity as to what was said.
i will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, willingly click on a link to protein wisdom.
ever.
Great, Jeff Goldstein accused me of being obssessed with dicks based on a joke I made at his expense months ago. I didn’t realize there was that much projection in the world.
And Steven, Dan Collins called you a liar in a follow-up posting. I’m not sure exactly what he objected to, it didn’t make any sense, but I thought I would let you know.
I’ve been called worse by better people than he, lol.