jan_andrea | Another completely bizarre guestbook entry (Reply)

Another bravely anonymous one, of course.

The entry:

Name: m
What's your pet peeve? people who make political statements using baby goods- evil
How did you get here? Followed the link in your signature file/tagline
Comments: making political statements using baby goods- evil
and your husband nas a chain maille website hypocracy at it's best!!

My reply:

Huh?

No, really, huh?

The baby crafts section is... it's free. I mean, it's meant to help people, which is what I like to do. That's not a political statement, except that it ties in with my belief that many ideas should be free. My politics are just... my politics. They're not on the same page as the baby crafts, and no one is forced to read them.

You, however, would benefit from my grammar page, which would tell you the correct way to use "it's".

Also, I'm unsure of why my husband's chain maille page is the least bit hypocritical. He's not going out and hacking at people with swords. He just enjoyed, for a time, making chain maille in his spare time, the way many people enjoy knitting. Just because it once had a defensive function doesn't make maille, in itself, a weapon or an offensive item.

I'm just perplexed that you bothered to write this... stuff. I mean, believe what you want to, but this is my webpage, and I'll put what I want on it. I'm not making a political statement with baby goods -- I have free baby crafts, and I have my beliefs. Would you write something like this to an explicitly Christian, or explicitly Republican, site that also had free craft ideas?

I just can't wrap my brain around where these people get off. Honestly, the level of incomprehension the idiots seem to embrace is just astounding.