the OP isn’t about you [...] You’re just not that important.
None of the criticism of the OP, however intemperate, looks to me as if it’s based in the idea that “the OP is about you”; quite the opposite. The basis of the criticism is that (e.g.) the OP is about women, or the OP is about rape, or the OP is about sex. I don’t think you can say “just not that important” about those.
Of course not. My point was that people are taking it personally, are taking it as a personal attack on something they identify with. But the reality is that it’s not about them.
What makes you think they’re taking it personally? Is it just the fact that they’re taking it seriously and getting cross about it? (It seems to me that one can perfectly well get cross about something without taking it personally.) Or is there something else?
None of the criticism of the OP, however intemperate, looks to me as if it’s based in the idea that “the OP is about you”; quite the opposite. The basis of the criticism is that (e.g.) the OP is about women, or the OP is about rape, or the OP is about sex. I don’t think you can say “just not that important” about those.
Of course not. My point was that people are taking it personally, are taking it as a personal attack on something they identify with. But the reality is that it’s not about them.
What makes you think they’re taking it personally? Is it just the fact that they’re taking it seriously and getting cross about it? (It seems to me that one can perfectly well get cross about something without taking it personally.) Or is there something else?