A Public Apology
I’ve taken down the Sorry Day post. Things have gotten out of hand. One of the people who was harrassing me the other day sent the link to the woman mentioned in the post, and she’s been very hurt by it. That was never my intention at all. I deliberately left out all identifying details, and I took great pains to clarify that even though I disagreed with her, I still liked and respected this person. In fact, I’ve directed this person to my website in the past, and I didn’t say anything in the post that I didn’t/wouldn’t say to her face. Some of the comments got a bit rough though (not that I’m shifting the blame onto you guys!), and this woman isn’t very comfortable with blogs and the Internet. To her eyes, it looked like we were ganging up on her. I’m really very, very sorry about this.

The whole situation came to a head this week and I had to do something to clear the air. (I’ll also be apologising to the woman in person, and also the other woman mentioned in the comments.) To be honest, the decision to remove the post wasn’t an easy one to make. On one hand I want to admit to my error and make things right… and on the other hand, it fills me with a blinding rage to give in to the trolls who were harrassing me. (I do not believe that the woman in question had anything to do with them, other than being told about the post.) But you know what? I have to be the grown-up here. My friendship with the woman affected is more important than spiting trolls. So I’ve removed the post and I unreservedly apologise to the woman in question. I’m sorry.

And as for the troll in question? I don’t know what I did to piss in your proverbial cornflakes, and I’m sure at this point I don’t care. For future reference though, I do have a log of your IP addresses, and the next time someone asks me to prove it was you – as happened today – I might not be the bigger person after all.