The center and the margins, and butt hurtness
[rebelmouse-image 24749394 alt="Snapshot 2010-04-16 17-41-33" original_size="477x315" expand=1]Oh, butt hurtness. It's a perennial problem on the internets, and there's probably a number of reasons for it. One is that people can't read body language and tone, and so subtle cues that X may not be taken in the same way as Y are lost. A lot of it has to do with the mix of people, and miscommunication due to people not quite understanding each others' frame of reference. A lot of it, especially in the wake of feminist blog posts, has to do with "Not my Nigel" and variations of it. And a lot of it has to do with people insisting that even though the post in question doesn't probably apply to them, they're going to dig around and insist it does, causing readers to wonder if they're just "Not my Nigel"-ing at you. I think a lot of this has to do with the epic levels of butt hurtness that erupted from the coining of the phrase "Dude Rock", though of course, the butt hurtness in this instance has nothing to do with the comically elevated levels of it that erupted with "mansplaining" was invented, or the alarming and sad way butt hurtness erupts in feminist blog posts about rape that attract irate men demanding, demanding, that the feminist tell them how much coercion they get away with before it's officially rape.