You know...

Having been too sick to do much but read and snuffle around Fet, today has been a day of revelations. We read about sub-frenzy, that delicious state where perfectly sane, rational adult women take leave of their senses the minute they get involved with some online domeo. We watch it, comment on it, try to talk some sense into them... well some of you do... people like oneself are not quite that masochistic... but one digresses. The shit gets played out over group after group; the beginnings of it, the middle of and the often all too predictable end of it.

Does that stop these women? No. No it does not. Every one of them shoots that rapid with brave naivety, only to come a cropper on those pesky rocks of reality. And as they flounder around, every last one of them cries poor me. Or worse goes on to be one of the authors of those bloody red flag lists that the next wave of brain addled twits won't read... well at least not before it's too late.

To add insult to injury those who do take the time to try and talk some sense into these women... you know silly things like;

You're a 40 year old woman, would you do x in a vanilla dating situation?

If you haven't met him and can only ring him between the hours of x and y, has it occurred to you he might be married?

So you are performing for him on Skype, you do know he can record it right?

If x is making you uncomfortable enough to ask these questions, do you think that might be common sense trying to prevail?

The list goes on, but you get the idea...

All of that help is usually met with some whiney little cunt going you're so mean to her, you're just old and jealous (yes that must be it) and of course the perennial favourite; you always sound so superior and look down on others...

Sweetie there is no superiority in trying to stem stupidity. What you are watching is benevolence in the form of tough love...

Something that should have been administered to some years ago...

Preferably before they hopped on the net, neatly divesting themselves of all their life skills as part of some sort of bizarre cleansing ritual and making complete asses of themselves in public.

Honestly stupid should hurt more!

This rant is brought to you by one small surly slave whose pain threshold may not be as high as it should be before reading Fet.