I tend to avoid blogosphere blow-ups these days. The fact that they are a huge waste of time and energy is one good reason for doing so, but one of the things that gets me most wound up reading them is that so many people’s arguments boil down to some variant of, “Your personal experience must be wrong(*), because my personal experience contradicts it.” For some reason we humans find it very hard to understand that the world can be very different for people who are not us (and Goddess knows I’m sure I have been guilty of this myself many times in the past). However, we can strive to do better, and for a little help along the way here is Kelley Eskridge being amazingly sensible and constructive about the whole thing.

* Yes, I know, on the Internet no one is ever just “wrong”, they are always “WRONG!!!”