Yesterday, in response to Dave's post, you wrote, "As a meta comment, Winer is a unfortunate last name..."
If that's the standard you hold yourself to, I'd encourage you to expect more from yourself.
If that's the standard you hold yourself to, I'd encourage you to expect more from yourself.
Dude writes really whiney content. And then there's his name. That's super unfortunate. That's not, like, a slam on his family or a dig about his person. That's just a linguistic observation.
If I made compost bins, for example, that's a completely legit parallel for someone to point out, even if silly.
Why don't you restrict yourself to commenting on the things he's sad rather than commenting on him?
It is Wine-r (like the grape beverage with an r on the end)
It is reasonable to expect that people with that family name might think otherwise. That's why it is usually considered very bad taste to comment on people's names, even when you don't mean it that way.
I actually liked his piece that was submitted yesterday (and lead to all of this), but I don't get why so many people are making a big deal out of a quick throwaway joke that involved wordplay on his name. If someone mentioned to me that both my names begin with a "c", which is suitable because I'm a cunt, I'd be upset at being called a cunt, not the fact that my name was tied into that.
My last name sounds like a common word but is spelled differently. I briefly was in circumstances where people routinely drew that parallel. They seemed to think they were the only one clever enough to notice the similarity. Uh, no. I heard it constantly for several months. It isn't clever. Really. A five year old could do the same.