Menstuff® has compiled the following information regarding
Hate Mail.
Source: The logo came from the folks at Fallout
Shelter News and their "Guidelines for Hate Mail" page
www.falloutshelternews.com/Hate_Mail_Guidelines.htm
Characteristics of those who write hate
mail
What is Hate Mail?
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Characteristics of those who write hate mail
This is true. Nearly everyone who has written me hate mail has called me names. I remember one guy who called me a "gutless wonder" because I wasn't in the military and opposed the war in Iraq. It never occured to him he wasn't in the military and in Iraq, either. I guess the reason he wasn't a gutless wonder is because he supported the war...as long as someone else was fighting it.
Competitive/argumentative
Yep, yep, yep. When people write me hate mail, if I respond I tell them not to bother writing back, because I will delete their email unread. Which I do. But nearly all the time they still write. And I always delete their emails without reading them. Sometimes they even put something into the subject line, to make sure I read it.
Amoral
This also is true. They seem to think they are fully justified in viciously attacking people who write articles they don't even understand. Yet if anyone attacks them, they are shocked.
Vengeful
While in their minds it is perfectly acceptable for them to insult people, if it's returned they will continually write emails to avenge the insult. This is why even though I tell them I delete their emails unread, they continue to write.
Self-blind
They don't have a clue anything is wrong with them. In their minds, I'm sure they think those they flame are the ones with the problems.
Egocentric
Oh, yes. They have a very high opinion of themselves (even though
they have no basis for that opinion, not when they can't even
understand an article) and a low opinion of those they flame (even
though the flamee is much smarter and more knowledgeable than the
flamer).
Source: www.amasci.com/weird/flamer.html
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse
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