Suburban Goddess

Note to self: Do NOT insult the oil & gas industry when you live in a city inhabited mostly by oil & gas people.

Damn.

I posted the “Higher Gas Price” post on my Chronicle blog (because I’m lazy, and I didn’t feel like coming up with something else to write about), and the response was overwhelming.  Overall, I was blasted for being a irresponsible mother, a glutton, a wasteful spender, a selfish American, a poor planner, and a few other things that have absolutely nothing to do with the post.  (How does me complaining about high gas prices insinuate that I’m a loose woman? If only I’d kept my legs CLOSED, then we would all be back to $2 a gallon!)

I have to say, I’ve been blogging for quite some time, and occasionally I’ll have a stray wander onto the Goddess site who will flame me for no other reason than they don’t like the rotation of the planet… and it’s ALL MY FAULT.  But the amount of hate mail since I’ve been at the Chronicle is overwhelming at times.  There are some seriously opinionated people out there.  While I feel that everyone is entitled to their opinion, I also feel we are entitled to disagree, and I would never delete a post that disagrees with my point of view.  In fact, I encourage it; I think debate fosters new ideas, and forces people to defend their position with fact instead of emotion.  However, I have to draw the line when you resort to a personal attack simply because you can’t put forth the effort to go educate yourself.

The lack of tolerance in today’s world seems to be decreasing sharply in a time where the only solution to our problems is to communicate.  And that’s a scary thing.

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