Me: Men are less than perfect.
Critic: You hate men. You are a men hater. I am a man. I hate men haters.
Me: I didn’t write that I hate men.
Critic: Scientific research shows that women are more imperfect than men. You don’t do your homework. Scientific research has proven that writers who don’t research the research before they write are stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: I hate writers who won’t admit that they are stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: You are a wise ass. Of course men are less than perfect, nobody is perfect. I hate wise asses. Anything a wise ass writes is stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: You fail to mention the problem of global climate change. You don’t have your priorities correct. Writers who don’t have their priorities on what to write about are stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: I have read of a famous writer who doesn’t agree with you. You have wise ass ideas and are not famous. Therefore you are stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: You have the same ideas as a well known idiot, I know. That is how I know that you are stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: You are the kind of man that would dig up your dead mother from the grave and have sex with her.
Me: Why did you have to bring my dead mother into this?
Critic: I don’t know that is just what I do.
Me: Let me try to explain to you in what ways I think men are less than perfect , how that happens, why that happens and what can be done to help some men be closer to perfect than they already are.
Critic: Wise ass, wise ass, wise ass, wise ass.
Me: I feel like I am wasting your time and mine, by trying to have a conversation with you.
Critic: You fail to understand the binary of the Alpha, Beta, Red Pill illogic. That makes you stupid.
Me: I am not stupid.
Critic: I know you are, but what am I?
Me: I think you are stupid and so am I for continuing this conversation.
Critic: I win!
Me: Yes you do.
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