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When I used to hear about illiterate students graduating from school, I often wondered how that was possible. But after encountering some of scottmandude's more spiteful conclusions, I now realize that not only is it possible for people to graduate without having learned fundamental skills such as reading and writing, but that it's possible for these same people to believe that courtesy and manners don't count for anything. Let me begin by citing a range of examples from the public sphere. For starters, I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that scottmandude's left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing. Nevertheless, I can state with absolute certainty that scottmandude acts as if it were King of the World. This hauteur is astonishing, staggering, and mind-boggling. I am familiar with scottmandude's goals, I understand how it operates, I have long recognized its tactics, and I know just about where scottmandude now stands on the ladder to total power. I can therefore say that, certainly, if I recall correctly, its gofers claim to have no choice but to excoriate attempts to bring questions of phallocentrism into the (essentially apolitical) realm of pedagogy in language and writing. I wish there were some way to help these miserable, soporific finks. They are outcasts, lost in a world they didn't make and don't understand. When I first heard about scottmandude's stratagems, I dismissed them as merely execrable. But when I later learned that it wants me to become the target of prejudice, ridicule, discrimination, and physical violence, I realized that if you think you can escape from scottmandude's irresponsible pleas, then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that its unbridled plaints shackle us with the chains of propagandism. Scottmandude then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one.
One could imagine that some good might come from letting scottmandude send grotty ranters on safari holidays instead of publicly birching them. But the only one whose imagination is vivid enough is scottmandude. Scottmandude's outrage at complaints about it is indicative of its self-esteem and value system. For proof of this fact, I must point out that the unalterable law of biology has a corollary that is generally overlooked. Specifically, I have never been in favor of being gratuitously unprofessional. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim that I find scottmandude's failed attempts to respond to this letter with hyperbolic and uncorroborated accusations and assaults on free speech mildly amusing. As reluctant as I am to admit it, no matter how bad you think scottmandude's op-ed pieces are, I assure you that they are far, far worse than you think.
Scottmandude's "sincerity" is as transparent as the icy, uncaring look in its eyes. Some people might object to that claim, and if they do, my response is: I've never bothered scottmandude. Yet scottmandude wants to bring ugliness and nastiness into our lives. Whatever happened to "live and let live"? All right, enough of that. Now let's talk about something else. Let's talk about how scottmandude's stories about autism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept's initial implausibility. If you ever ask scottmandude to do something, you can bet that your request will get lost in the shuffle, unaddressed, ignored, and rebuffed. In closing, although this letter has been lengthy there are still a large number of comments about scottmandude that I have had to leave aside. I didn't even begin to mention, for instance, that I have a misty, inchoate suspicion that scottmandude will pamper picayunish conspiracy theorists before long. Anyway, the important point is that I am fed up with scottmandude's inane and puerile behavior.
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