I put trashing in quotes, because I don't think that usually what we're doing...

But, when you get to the point of venom about another writer -- one that you don't know in person, so all you are objecting to is her writing, what do you think is your reason/motivation?

I ask this because the people we usually rail about are not by any means the worst writers out there: we rail about women who can write a sentence and punctuate it; women who can plot, and even tie most of the strings up at the end.

Yet, they bug us, bug us *more* than the 3rd grade dropouts that netfandom has in abundance.

Based at least partially on my own experience (there, that was vague enough), here's my guesses:

 

 

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