So my personal opinion is that he WANTS us to tell him what a bad bad little boy he is and how if he’s not good, we’ll sit on him and suffocate him. He daydreams of us punishing him by talking about how sexy we are, how we should just shove his face into our DDDs and THEN that’d learn him good.

Why is he so “concerned”? Because if we do all die from the ZOMGFAT!!111!!!11! then the sexiest swath of the population (the strong both in body and spirit) is *poof* gone and they took with them his erection.

Think about it: What’s hotter than a clever female? Not much. What brings out the clever like an insult? Not much. And how many people are MORE CLEVER than those who have been insulted and trampled all their lives? Not many.

It creates kind of a Catch-22. If we respond, he’s getting off on it. If we don’t, we perpetuating our silence. Tough stuff, this.

Just my opinion and experience.

I nominate Dana for President :)

That said, I disagree that it is a good idea to ignore a sociopath when he needles you. This is a common myth, online and off, and it does no good at all. He’s already gotten his charge out of emailing you in the first place because he knows you most likely read it. It’s perfectly legitimate to acknowledge what he said and call him on his shit. It’s not even about him, but about getting the idea out there as much as possible to other people that sociopathic behavior is a bad thing. It’s not “just a joke,” it’s not a “legitimate outlet for anger”–it is destructive. The more that normally social people get this idea across to one another, the less wiggle room your average sociopath is going to have to do real damage.

I have just laughed to the point of almost puking at the set-em-up-knock-em-down hilarity of “surprise me cunt” comments.

And the turning off the lights, ducking behind the sofa comment? Christ on a bun, that was funny.

And they say feminists have no snese of humor?

2 to 1 odds that Rick is a greasy 14 year old boy who’s skin is almost transparent because he spends so much time in front of his computer trolling that he never sees the light of day and was hysterically laughed at when he hit on all of his older sister’s friends.

And if the already oft quoted “please stop talking like a pirate” didn’t make me laugh enough, this just made me lose it:

Dear Rick,
Please stop embarassing us. You do not rule. You are made of fail.
Signed,
The Males of the Species
Who Are Not Developmentally Arrested “You are made of fail.” I feel like I need to make that a permanent part of my phrase repertoire!