Run For Your Life!! And Take Your Stick-Figure Family With You!!

It surprises me that I can still be taken aback by things that happen on social media.

Yesterday, I posted this on tumblr (it was a random minivan we pulled up behind):

I don’t care that you have 3 kids

Or that you ran a half-marathon

And I can’t unfollow you

Fuck off and die

Was that post offensive? 

If you take it at face value, and not in the faux outrage way it was intended, I suppose you might be able to get there ... with a bucket load of creative license and significant dose of "IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!!!!!"

Should it have resulted in public name calling ("slovenly," "obese," and "dumb fat ass cunt" were the chosen words/phrases)? 

I think that might have been a bit ... well ... over the top ... maybe ...

Look, I get that my opinion may not be shared by everyone. I think the stick-figure family decals are goofy, and the 13.1 and 26.2 decals pretentious, but that's just my opinion.

You like the stick-figure family decals? By all means, display them proudly on your minivan. Tell the world ... wait ... just what are you telling the world? And again, why should I care?

Anyway, I digress ...

You want every other driver on the road to know that you might be driving now, but you could be running if you wanted to? You feel that strangers should be as in awe of your running accomplishment as you clearly are?

Yeah ... no ...

And if your only means of attempting to sway my opinion on stick-figure families and marathon declarations is to sling insults?

It probably won't work ... in fact, it will probably just reinforce my opinion that stick-figure decals are goofy, and 13.1 and 26.2 decals are pretentious.

Any time a person responds to a difference of opinion not with a well thought out retort, but with vile put-downs?

They lose me, and I feel they've done little more than proven my point.

Do tell, are you an insult slinger? Do you feel it strengthens your argument? Is it fair game when you feel attacked, whether you are actually being attacked or not?