April 29, 2003

• more Mercury retro muckup

  
  

  Saturday I posted what I thought was a sorta snappish reply I had made to a drive-by comment.  You pretty much all agreed I had been too kind.  Well, I’m here now to tell you I had totally misjudged Ms. churlish-on-the-beach.

  
  

  I had thought it was just the standard, drive-by, shooting-off-of-the-keyboard, triggered by my mention in that blog of having stayed on my diet through my recent interlude of infection.  I was wrong, so wrong.

  
  

  I got an email from her today.  She, I don’t think, had even read that blog.  Her comment was spam she was putting on every site in the eating disorders blogring.  I don’t think I was too kind or too cruel in my reply to her email.  I just gave her a quick lesson in some of the netiquette I’ve learned from you Xangans who were here before I was.

  
  

  Public service spam in her eyes, I’m sure, her little round robin mission is to me a good illustration of something I noticed before I got fed up with having my posts deleted on an eating disorders board site.  Anorexics and bulimics tend to think that their eating disorders are the only ones there are. 

  
  

  My offense, if you’re wondering, that kept getting my posts suppressed, was to suggest that there is such a thing as biochemical causes for eating disorders: addiction and revulsion to food.  That site was heavily invested in the idea that it is all in our heads, and that counseling, 12-steps, and white-knuckle willpower are the only ways to go.  Puh!

  
  

  I’ve had a good, productive day… how about you?

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