The Breakdown…

[scarletwoman]

122. Thank you for your excellent analysis. I agree that it IS a Duer, but not that it's a male.

Like a couple other female posters in this thread, I don't agree that it's necessarily a male.

The very first time I saw the letter on the first day it was posted here, my immediate gut reaction was that it was written by a woman. I know that doesn't really count for much in terms of logic - still, being a woman myself, the vibe of the letter smacked of enraged female energy to me.

Who actually bothers to write personal letters to express their feelings? At the risk of sounding like an unpolitically correct non-feminist, I would say that it's the work of "a woman scorned" - and all that the stereotype implies. E.g. - fury.

This is someone who either engaged in direct arguments with bravenak, or else just read bravenak's posts while seething silently. And then rejoiced when bravenak got 5 hides - possibly due to alerts she herself sent - but then felt their satisfaction thwarted as other DUers expressed support for bravenak and dismay at her hides.

Women are quite capable of fighting in dirty, underhanded ways. Quite capable of doing the research needed to dig up a perceived enemy's address. Quite capable of fixating on a public figure and obsessively identifying with that figure - to the point where a perceived attack on that figure is taken as an attack on her own self.

In other words, I think it would be a mistake to assume that the letter writer could only be a male.

I think it's a woman. And I think it's a woman who totally freaked out over the first BLM confrontation with Sanders at NetRoots, then freaked out further over the BLM confrontation in Seattle - who felt personally attacked by BLM's use of "white supremacist". And bravenak's arguments in defense of BLM's actions got to be too much for this person, who brooded and brooded and nursed her anger and sense of victimisation until she finally hatched a plan...