Reblogging Julia

Time out.

Our Lady of Introspection continues her tentative steps back to blog with a sneak peek at her weekly advice column.  It is better written this week, albeit with the familiar holy trinity of passive aggressive themes:

1. “I am not perfect, I am just like you;”
2. “Other people did much worse things than me,” and
3. “Mean people on the internet are to blame for my plight.” 

Excerpts italicized, bulleted and parsed for your pleasure:

• The internet is for “obsessively googling your one night stand, for IM chats with your mistress…..for Facebooking all of your crush’s ex-girlfriends……”???!!?!?!  Your internet fascinates and horrifies me.
• “The old adage of “don’t start a fight with men who buy ink by the barrel” has morphed into “don’t start a fight with women who have a DSL line.’”  See, here’s the thing.  Not all women act out against their exes publicly or online, which is why it garnered the attention you wanted when you did it.  I appreciate the attempt to portray yourself as a typical woman-with-an-internet-connection scorned, but you and Ms. Mardsen made yourselves notorious precisely because most women have more tact and dignity than to fight in public, much less by blog.  Quite frankly, it is downright anti-women to suggest otherwise is the norm.
• “Your IM chats will be archived, your emails will be forwarded.….”  While I suspect that you are referring to you and Ms. Mardsen as the victims of such antics, surely I need not remind you that you have done these very things, and worse.   Remember the mantra:  I am not a victim.
• “NO ONE possesses good judgment during this time. It is impossible.”  See, again, I think you are imposing your own limitations on everyone else.  People can and do break up with dignity and without any public spectacle.  It certainly isn’t impossible.
• “The internet makes it very difficult to completely erase anything. And by then, the damage will have been done.”   Well, that phrase and scenario sound vaguely familiar.
• “Not in a public forum, where your words, your feelings, and finally your relationship can be parsed, critiqued and ultimately destroyed by the unruly online masses.”   This implicates a couple of prior points.  First, parsed?  w00t!  Second, perhaps you might consider that the unruly online masses aren’t to blame for the destruction of your relationship, but rather that you (and your ex) are responsible for your own actions.   Again, remember the mantra.
• Finally, and perhaps I have no business asking for a favor, but would you explain blogging to the Handmaiden of Passive Aggression?  Especially the parts about spell check and sequential ordering of posts?  That readers know to start from the last post they read and read upward?  I know that she would tell you if you looked like hell. 
• I am just fantacising of a day of coherency.   It wouldn’t be a tradgedy, since she is now offering dating advice, and is now therefore a bona fide competitor.