You can consider whatever you want. Beyond a point of common courtesy, I am not responsible for your reactions. I don’t mind if you think I am creepy, and declaring me that way is not going to change how I express myself. You are not that important to me.

I am removed. I am an internet commenter who is probably hundreds of miles away from you. There’s no reason I should feel overly involved in your emotional reactions. You have no basis for saying what “particularly ruffles my feathers” because you have no other experience of my reactions or responses to any other…

I am very sorry that your ex-husband abused you. I am not him.

I am telling you what this situation looks like from a third party to help you decide for yourself what you are experiencing. I think what I said will help you process the painful emotions that you communicated in your comments. I see that this commenter you were angry at could not have been the one to give you the…

Repetition of arguments is necessary when presented over and over with the same situation. I repeated my argument because my observations of this group of comments were similar. I wrote extemporaneously and individually for each response, and my view remained consistent.

I don’t have to tailor my responses to your…

Your comment was 100% judgement statements and orders, while my comment was observational statements. You don’t have the power or authority to condemn me. You are not better than me, you are just another person whose voice is the same as mine.

Everyone is not having the same reaction that you are. Universalizing your emotional response into a generic “human” one is preventing you from seeing what it is about your past and experiences that has you reacting so strongly to a very small statement from and anonymous person on the internet. It is okay to have…

You could not verbalize exactly why because you haven’t realized that “rage-stroke” level anger could not have come from just this commenter. This commenter has not done enough to you or communicated enough with you to be the cause of that level of anger, which means there must be people in your past who are the real…

I think it is definitely possible for “That is fair” to be what a misogynist might say to be dismissive and still think himself “polite”, but in this situation you have no real reason to believe it is meant that way. Even if someone used this phrase in the past to hurt you, that does not mean it is true that this…

I believe that in the past someone communicated this terrible thought to you through a conversation that you found very hurtful, but that’s not what this person said right here. You are inventing a larger portion of their personality than is warranted from a single sentence that is really not a critique at all.…

You seem intent on projecting characteristics of previous individuals who hurt you onto this anonymous internet commenter based on a single statement that they made, that could have been meant in many different ways. From a third party perspective, your response is excessive, and only explained by another past…

I am guessing that you’ve previously had a conversation with a #notallmen person that this response reminded you of. So you are having a stronger emotional response to this one sentence from a stranger than is warranted by this actual context.

This is one of those situations where someone was previously condescending to you, so you chose to project those feelings onto this innocuous statement and then vent anger that you couldn’t previously express. You’re projecting your past trauma onto this internet situation to express the feelings you had then in this…

This election is America’s choice between electing your mother or electing your rich stepdad/mom’s boyfriend. You hate your stepdad and you know he’s an idiot, but you hate your mom for having sex with him and you’ve been blaming her for his actions for so long that you’re afraid to admit you might have been…

We, as a nation, need to marathon Grey’s Anatomy. That show is totally all about these ideas.

Proud scavenger here. Today is our day!

Agreed. I prefer causes to blame. I hope you’re holding up okay! I enjoyed this little back and forth.

No, you took issue with assigning culpability of the outcome of an American election to all Americans. If we are about finding blame for the outcome of the largest, fairest and most free election in the world, you blame the entire country. That’s the whole point of democracy.

No. You’re the ridiculous part. You still think the outcome of an American election is about blaming the right people, and you still think if you blame the right people you’re actually helping something. That’s exactly how Trump is campaigning too.

You’re being too disconnected about this. This election didn’t happen in a vacuum. Why are so many people surprised about Trump’s popularity? I wasn’t, but I was constantly being told by my liberal friends that I was taking my critique of American culture too far. That sexism and racism are not problems for them, or…