More OkCupid bullshit

Just a little blurb I thought worth mentioning:

My profile on OkCupid.com starts off by explaining how important language is to me. Update: I've changed my profile a million times since this post. It used to say "If you're not something of a grammar Nazi, please don't message me." in addition to everything else that's there now, at the top. I changed it because I would love but do not require to talk only to self-proclaimed grammar Nazis, I just couldn't find a better way to phrase it. But I knew those who loved language would appreciate it.

Some dude decided it was his place to inform me of the explanation's egregious rhetorical misplacement. The following is his advice for remedying this grave problem and the bullshit that followed.

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Peteriscool says:

you should read your opening, "self-summary" in your profile again.

i would save what you detest about human language usage, for later reading in your profile. i am sure your a sweat person, but the nazi bit just stopped me from reading the rest. sometimes content and tone are more important that grammar. good luck out there - its a scary misspelled and improperly punctuated world.

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To which I reply:

Who are you to give advice on my personal profile? I stated the reason in my preface to the grammar Nazi statement; if I don't put it there, no one reads it and I get a million "HI NICE PIX" messages every single fucking day.

This proves my point. I told you not to message me because you're not the kind of person I want to talk to. It's not that I would dislike you, I just prefer to be around people who value the same things I do. I specifically put that at the beginning to weed people like you out. If we're not compatible because you're not a grammar nazi and you don't like the way my profile is set up, then DON'T MESSAGE ME.

Didn't your mother ever teach you that giving entirely unsolicited advice (to strangers no less) is presumptuous and rude? Or are you always this arrogant? You try to tell me what I should value (tone over grammar), deliberately and completely ignore my pleas for you (yes, You) to not message me, and offer bullshit advice before considering that there might actually be a legitimate, thought-out, well-reasoned purpose for the placement of that paragraph in my profile.

Look at my profile. Do I look like the kind of person who carelessly places words? I have scrutinized that profile so many times I can't remember, moving and removing sections, rephrasing things (that grammar paragraph used to be much harsher, by the way), and generally making sure the tone isn't too off-putting. Most of my edits have been to alter the tone and make it more inviting. The truth is that I'm kind of a severe person, and language is by far the most important thing to me. It's my craft, love, passion, and vice. It's everything. If you shit all over that by sending me a message (out of nowhere) that tells me I shouldn't care about it, you have missed the point entirely and you are part of the problem.

Most people move on when they find a profile they don't like. You chose to be a presumptuous prick and tell me how I can fix it to suit YOUR preferences.

I put it there for a reason. Keep your ill-informed, half-literate bullshit to yourself next time.

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Peteriscool says:

you should know i did not read your reply. because it follows the same angry pattern as your profile. just take what i said for what it is. and don't write me an essay of how fuck off. cuz i won't read that either. i was just trying to be nice.

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I reply:

You weren't trying to be nice. You were being a jerk. Learn some manners.

And you just told me yourself that you didn't read the rest of my profile, so how could you know there was an "angry pattern" in it? You're just another full-of-shit anti-intellectual and I sincerely hope you are unable to reproduce.

Good day.

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If he'd read even a little bit more of my profile he would have had some warning that this kind of thing might happen.

Perhaps I should include an "If you're an asshole to me here I'll probably blog about you and post a link in my profile. So don't be an asshole." clause in my profile.