Dan wrote a great post commenting on the recent post at dooce where she relayed some of the hate mail/comments she receives on a regular basis about her blog. I encourage you to read Dan’s whole post, but here’s a snippit from it.

Finally, there is that certain subset of humanity who can neither fathom nor accept that others might not agree with them on every single issue. They believe that the only correct opinion is their opinion; the only way of doing things is their way; the only acceptable path in life is the very path that they have chosen (or been forced into) for themselves. These are the people (and many of them tend to be hypocrites) who will insult you because you don’t share their religious or moral beliefs, because you don’t engage in the same activities, because you don’t wear the same fashions, and because you don’t idolize (or vilify) the same individuals or groups.

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: “Just because we disagree doesn’t mean one of us is wrong.” Unfortunately, that’s beyond some people’s comprehension.

We all blog for different reasons. Some blog to keep a record of their family’s lives or to share their day to day happenings with friends, family and those who drop in. Others blog to spread a message, to share their opinions. Many people find blogging therapeutic, or a way to connect with somewhere outside of their local town. We attempt as well as we can to bring across our emotions in our blogs, our sarcasm, our sardonic humour, our anguish, anger, whatever emotion we’re writing about at the time. There’s no guarantee that those who read will interpret as we intend, but at the same time it is perplexing, some of the items that some people take literally. Dan touches home on that with;

There’s another subset which faithfully takes everyone at face-value, failing to see any irony, sarcasm or humour in other people’s words and/or deeds. For instance, when Dooce writes that the only thing her toddler will eat is M & M’s and Gummi Bears, and that she is considering making them the staple ingredient of her daughter’s three daily meals, some people actually believe her. And then they attack her because of it. But as a parent who is raising two very fussy children, I can understand where she is coming from and have experienced those very same meal-time frustrations myself. After all, at some point, we get tired of the constant parent-child battles and wish we could indeed resort to such extreme measures if only they’ll eat, if only they’ll give us a few minutes of peace and tranquility at the supper table. But no parent in their right mind would feed their children M & M’s and Gummi Bears three times a day, and that includes Dooce. Yet some people still take her comments seriously.

I enjoy reading Dooce as do many other readers. It’s true that I find sometimes her post are less humerous than other times. Sometimes I get tired of reading about poop, but at the same time, *I’m* the one who keeps reading it. No one is making me, and for the most part I know I’ll have a laugh with many of her posts. We are merely looking through a window at someone’s life, it’s only one view of it, flat, non-dimensional, stay and look, or pass on till you find a view that suits your style more. Why some people feel they need to be judgemental personally to her is beyond me. I’ve read many a blog that I completely didn’t agree with their views, and I just kept on going, nary to return. Like Dan mentioned, he’s had an unpleasant comment left before and I did too and I know for me, there was a moment of disbelief. I had a person state anonymously of course, that I was whining when I posted once that I was tired, that I had the kids all the time and needed a break. I followed up with a post and I wish I still had the comment (all my old comments were nuked in the server change).

So enough rambling, bottom line, I blog because I can because I enjoy it. And I hope that some of you have some enjoyment out of it as I often have while reading other’s blogs.