I’ve been told, at various times, that I’m evil, I shouldn’t be able to sleep at night, that the only thing of interest about me was my sexual organs, that I was worthless, useless, and defective, and various other insults and curses.

Well, now I find out that “Most of the women who claim to be “Web Designers” have been some dumb little bint who graduated art school and drew bad littlepictures for some Programmer to code,” and that I am “a mean spirited, self indulgent, bad mannered bitch.”

Hmph. My manners aren’t that bad. And while I can be pretty sarcastic, I’m not actually mean spirited.

The weird thing is, I’m not even sure why the person who has taken on a crusade against me in at least one public forum has chosen to do that. I mean, I don’t even know the guy. Seriously, I don’t know him. He claims to be “a programmer with thirty years’ experience” and made all sorts of claims that I argued that programmers should all be fired and that they were all sub-human or something (I say “or something” because I really don’t quite get what he’s on about).

See, there’s this one site I frequent that has a long, long history of being unreceptive to input from the membership (it is a membership/community site, and one with an accompanying online store that supports the site and earns a profit for the company that owns it) has a problem with a small percentage of people having trouble loading the menu. The management’s responses to this have been, to say the least, unsatisfactory and showed a lack of understanding of front end management on a user-based website. I have been my usual opinionated self on the topic of their unresponsiveness and, in my opinion, unprofessionalism.

For reasons I genuinely fail to understand, this guy was pissed off by it. I’m guessing he’s just got Major Issues and I happened to trigger him on one or more counts, but some of the stuff he accused me of was just bloody laughable.

I like programmers. Been married to one for some years now, and many of my friends are programmers, as well… Yeah, I object to community-based sites that tell part of the community who are having problems with something that could be easily fixed to basically go to hell and shut up, but how that’s supposed to apply to all programmers everywhere, I really can’t figure out…

Anyway, I just wanted to write it all down for posterity’s sake. Oh, and I do know I’m a bitch. Being a woman who has opinions and dares to voice them automatically puts me in that category. Duh.

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