There is one thing that I truly despise about many bloggers, and that is the tendency to say "I can say what I want, leave the comments open and then choose to block you for simply disagreeing with me." Just because it "is your blog," doesn't mean that you should be immune to criticism or those who disagree with you, and limiting the opinions of others is nothing more than a form of mind control no matter how badly executed. You have people, especially on left-wing blogs, who say that certain opinions just aren't acceptable such as "victim blaming." Now what the fuck is victim blaming in most cases? It's a relative point once you get beyond the absurd like "that serial killer's victim sure got what was coming to him for daring to leave his house at night!"

I am not one to cheerlead for Vox, but it is amazing to me how stupid people get when they disagree with him. The vocalizations of a gibbering monkey are more articulate and erudite than their "rebuttals," and I use that term so loosely that if it were a hooker, the class nerd would be getting laid every night like clockwork for free. I actually disagree with him on the issue of date rape, having been in a situation where a girl really did try to force herself on me and committed what amounted to sexual assault against me. Yet how on Earth can anyone respect trash like this?

I proudly wear the title of elitist because I have for a long time rejected the notion that all opinions are equal. Such barely educated nitwits are a perfect example of why many geeks have a loathing of blogs in general. What do you call a single line, based entirely on uneducated opinion? In the blogosphere, among the majority, you call it a rebuttal, but in the real world it's called a half-assed quip. Where is the deconstruction of the words that are to be rebutted?

Just like a rite of passage it seems, many bloggers and people in general don't even bother to back up their assertions with bonafide experience or evidence. Take for instance, the feminist argument that women are to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen as subservient maid-whores for their husbands according to the Bible. Ephesians 5 says that a wife's role and a husband's duties to her are exactly the opposite, but don't let the Bible's actual teachings get in the way because what really matters are the people who wear the title of Christian, but don't have any intention of practicing what they preach. Extrapolate this to all of the sacred cows, even on the right, and you'll get what I mean.

My comment policy is very simple. Disagree with me as much as you want, and I won't even delete trolls because I reserve the right to mercilessly mock you, regardless of your state of mind at the moment. If you accuse me of being hateful for example, and I rebutt you, your next comment better be able to provide counterparts. "U r teh hateful" is not acceptable, and I will probably end up showing your commentary all the respect that a foreign policy statement made by a small child would receive at the State Department. Also, there is nothing I hate more than the habit that some people have of rejecting transcendental morality, and then holding up their personal views as though they have the authority of a divine being attached to them. I despised that when I was an agnostic and still despise it as fervently today as I did then. Opinion has merit where things like personal taste come into play, but opinion, without education and facts, has no merit when it is a matter of truth.