Thread:Una74/@comment-71.58.210.121-20171010133156/@comment-33557326-20171104203500

I would be glad to address any concerns but nobody is clearly explaining anything that strikes me as problematic? What is the “obvious problem”? Where are the “inflammatory remarks about people online” that have not been easily dispatched through direct communication with involved parties? Who vented on the venting page and why and where? I’d be irked, too, like Michael, if people were somehow conjuring up insults and attributing them to me, while the accusers remain anonymous. I’ll need to check with an attorney, but I believe that is, in fact, illegal.

Now I, Mary Miles, feel insulted because I believe you are insinuating that I am a mere figment of Michael Berube’s imagination??? Metaphysics aside, I’m a very real person. In fact, I’m probably the person at Penn State most likely to be able to summon a smidgeon of empathy for anyone who felt hurt by an unintentional online slight. I’m that sensitive. But now I’m simply irritated. I rarely need to argue that I’m a real person. The picture in my avatar was taken last spring at our English Department’s Honors graduation and you might be able to see that I’m wearing the honors medal I received from the same Penn State program over twenty years earlier. I’m narcissistic enough to have a fairly robust social media presence and array of photos of myself all over the internet doing real things. You would have to be a child whose mommy blocked you from the internet (but missed this of all pages)to miss me out there. I am many things, but I, sir, am no sock-puppet!!

Could you be doing this for mere amusement? If so, well played. You make sense now. It actually is funny to watch real people get all bent out of shape on the Internet. You got me! Funny.

Otherwise, please provide some content for debate — either regarding Berube’s alleged insults — of such viciousness that they should receive this level of attention — or the notion that I am make-believe. Then we can have a proper discussion.

Who are you? Scared?

81.135.38.160 wrote: As Berube and Mary Miles and the chorus of ostensibly-not-Berube-sockpuppetts aren’t going to address the obvious problems with what Berube is doing and has done, let’s just make it simple. 1) Michael Berube posts inflammatory remarks about people online. 2) This has been vented about on the venting page. 3) Michael Berube doesn’t approve of the way people respond to his insults and wants the content removed.

Yes, it’s that stupid.