@Shawn King:
First, don't for one second think that it means anything if I'm not familiar with your work before now! I'm only tangentially familiar with "Apple culture" (I guess you could say I'm a male outsider) unless there's a product announcement going on.

BTW, thanks very much for this post. Even if I come out looking like a bit of an asshole in it, you nailed the salient points.
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If my posts were “increasingly dismissive of Violet Blue” it was because I was increasingly pissed at Blue for not only completely mischaracterizing the issue but for for, as you said, “demonstrating a near-complete lack of journalistic integrity” and for *her* fanboys coming after me with the same vitriol and crap she accused Apple fanboys.

I didn't mean to make you look like an asshole, just more to, well, make an example of you. (Is that better or worse? I can't tell). But really: to show how baseless accusations of misogyny to manipulate an audience can turn everything so sour so quickly.

I don't take those accusations lightly, either, and I go from happy & well-adjusted to red-faced and livid in a matter of seconds. And I don't care how reasonable and even-tempered you are: when you get accused of something that low, it's designed to piss you off and make you get defensive. And then it stops being about what you say and all about how you say it: catching you for any rash word or not-entirely thought-out point. It's manipulative, irresponsible bullshit.

That's what I meant by "tone deaf," using words or terminology that can so easily be jumped on by people trying to catch you saying something they can call misogynist. (And that's not just the typical complaint about them damn feminazis ruining everything for the men-folk: I actually saw exactly that happen to you on Twitter).

In retrospect, comparing you to Michael Moore was a really low blow, though. Apologies. :)