Had a run-in with a fellow blogger on Multiply. My Facebook status and the ensuing comments update says it all. Since I'm brain-damaged and prone to amnesia, I will repeat myself here.
It all started with a lady commenting on the foreign workers in her HDB estate located in the western part of Singapore. She definitely spared no details and left no stone unturned when it came to expressing her disgust for these "lower lifeforms". She went to the extent of shunning them like plague and I quote "I will not touch anything that they have touched because they are so dirty".
Singaporeans and discrimination. Sounds like good debate fodder for me. And I was spoiling for some good cerebral physiotherapy.
So the point of views started arrowing around, and always with the same disclaimer from her "this is my blog, I am free to share my opinion and I will not change my view no matter what others say." OK, fine. I'm there to air my views as well. And my arse too 'cos this stocking is giving me heat rash.
Anyway, it ended with her calling me names, and her friend asking me not to visit the entry again because "reading it made me upset". More like she felt that I was upsetting her friend the blogger.
I signed off by saying "if she feels comfortable enough opening such a can of worms, she should be open to other people's point of view as well instead of just expecting others to accept hers."
But it did dawned on me that women, at least this bunch of people I came in contact with, are generally quite bad at arguments. What started out as a logical posting disintegrated into an emotional outburst with cries of abuse and discrimination against those who stay in HDB (hello!!! despising FW is not ah?!), evolving into "ok lor, I'm an ugly singaporean lor." and "wah, princess is so noble ah, can understand the woes of others".
So here I am, escaping from a bunch of nitwits and hoping for a wider range of audience.