This Dave Winer post had me laughing out loud. It’s so bizarre to see people who get themselves in situations largely through their own bad acts and then seem clueless about that. Winer is upset that he’s being attacked for taking down Weblogs.Com and that no one is coming to his defense,
And I said next time, and there will be a next time, it would be nice if the people who know me, would say publicly that I am honest and hard-working, and to give me a chance. The reason so many of these people say ever-more-damning things about my integrity, is that no challenges them. Every time it’s like starting from zero, I have to prove that I’m not the cretin they cast me as. Next time, would the Internet have a memory please, and would the people who know me, who even would like to think of themselves as my friends, say something, publicly, so people know.
The problem Dave has, however, is precisely that the Internet does have a memory. Winer’s spent the past few years raging at and abusing pretty much everyone he’s come into contact with. There are a significant number of ex-Userland customers who migrated to other platforms largely to avoid having to deal with Winer’s outbursts. Winer is a case study in how to create an exciting technology and then completely alienate people who otherwise might be champions of said technology.
But Dave is completely oblivious to this, so he turns to his ongoing sexist mantra — they must dislike him because they’re women,
I’m a big, strong, intelligent, self-reliant male. Our culture acts as if such people never need help. “Be a man,” they say. Enough of that bullshit. Inside every strong self-reliant male is a scared kid, who doesn’t think he’s going to get out of this alive. The attackers are dispropotionately women. Do you think maybe they’re using me to get even for how someone treated them? A father, a brother, an uncle, an ex? Does our culture let them be abusers, assuming the man is always wrong, guilty until proven innocent?
Ah, yes — they’re women and they’re attacking Dave, so they’re probably just taking out some irrational rage on him. Heck, Dave, it’s probably just PMS.
As I’ve said before, why would anyone ever want to work with someone who posts such bizarre crap?