Humans average growth declined when agriculture was introduced.

Americans are fat because they eat too many refined carbohydrates and do no exercise. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the gluten content of their food. Gluten is a protein composite.

As long as it's gluten free it's healthy! Here, try some of this dog shit!

"Gluten-free" is not a healthier eating habit. "Refined starch-free" and "beer-free" and "tons and tons of excess calories-free" are healthy eating habits. Whether they do or do not include gluten is completely irrelevant to their healthfulness.

Can you imagine people from any other point in past history hearing about the bullshit we claim in this post-food-scarcity industrial era? People all through history have been eating stuff like bark and seeds from duck shit to stay alive, and we've got SUV driving soccer moms posting shit on facebook between pilates…

The comments over there read like a paid campaign. "Clearly very talented", "I'm going to buy her book now", etc. I will contact Guardian over this, giving platform to a violent stalker, however well-connected privately they might be, will bite them in the ass in the long run, these stories simmer for a while…

I read the whole article, and Hale did not come across as anything other than an insane stalker. Someone wrote a negative review of her book so she STALKED the reviewer. She's convinced that there is some massive conspiracy against her because someone did not use their real name online and, when pressed on it by a…

I read it. I replied telling her how screwed up that was, how I will never read anything of hers. They deleted my comment. In fact, many of the comments condemning her were removed. So what you're saying that the commenters there are Team Ms Hale is not true. They're just deleting the dissent. Real ethical.

I read it. She comes across as unhinged, not a troll slayer. I found the comments supporting her out-of-touch with what she actually described. Most charitably, it's an honest account of how reading negative reviews can take someone who already had obsessive tendencies to a very, very dark place. That's not something…

I read the full article, and I definitely didn't think of Hale as a "troll slayer." Even without questioning her depiction of the review-bullying, her behavior is uncalled for, unprofessional, and unhinged.

'What is fascinating about the comments here is that if you read the actual full article on The Guardian link, you'll find the story plays out a little differently and that the commenters on there have a very different sympathy than here"

Yeah, I read it there. Hale comes off horribly.

Do you actually know this blogger or her blog? Hale wrote the article in such a way that she'd have you believe Blythe wrote nothing but 1 star reviews and had fake social media accounts just to torment people. That is not the case. Blythe was a book blogger for over 2 years who gave multiple 4 and 5 star reviews, and…

If you don't understand how stalking is worse than talking shit online I doubt we can teach you otherwise.

Blythe wrote a one star review because she hated the book. She's a reviewer that's what we do. For the record, Blythe has also loved and championed a lot of books.

I follow Blythe on Goodreads and Twitter and never saw her "attacking" Hale. Hale offers no screenshots or proof. Why are we believing someone who is…

I'm confused by the people who focus on the reviewer's online pseud. Listen, I hate to say this, but my name isn't actually "Ashinae." There are a lot of us who have been here since virtually no one used their real names online. I know the times they are a'changing, but some people still like o keep their online…

She wrote a negative review about a book that sounds, honestly, like it sucks. How is that trying to "make someone's life miserable"? Someone not liking your output isn't abuse, and if you can't make a living in a business because people don't like what you create, losing your livelihood isn't victimhood, it's an…

I'm also not a fan of people who write one-star reviews simply to make lives miserable for others.

Hale clearly felt she needed to take matters into her own hands

Hmmm. I've actually read the book in question and I wouldn't say there is "no rape" in it. A character who is a minor has an affair with a much older man, and since the age of consent is 18 in Wisconsin (where the book takes place) there are in fact mentions of statutory rape in the book (which is real rape, and…