Reflections of a stormy petrel

I do not think that the author is actually talentless - at least, she seems to have a large following, including a few members of my own f-list. I think rather that she is scarily provincial, ignorant and prejudiced about the world's largest religion, and, what is worse, unwilling, even after years, to admit that there was anything seriously wrong with what she wrote. I think it is really a matter of self-regard. It is a principle with me to admit when I am wrong, but I admit that when my temper is up and I am face to face with an opponent, that does not come so easy. However, even after disengaging from me and taking her grievances to another blog, she still would do nothing more than to ascribe the passage to a "youthful folly", as it had apparently been written five years ago - which still left the issue open as to what exactly the folly was - to write hate speech and ignorant unhistorical nonsense, or to express herself in such a way (while reneging nothing of the content) as to make retaliation inevitable? And she only said that where she thought I would not be reading.