You have to laugh. Because if you don’t laugh at stupidity, you might just scream.

What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact that there are so many small minded limited people who can’t get over when they are removed from a Facebook group.

Life is pretty simple in these groups. If you don’t follow the rules generally you’re removed. If you denigrate the admin or group owner in the group, generally speaking, you are removed.

Today a woman who used to be in a gifting group I started and run posted in another community group thanking the community for helping her gather things for someone starting over from nothing because she couldn’t say thank you in my group, as she was no longer in my group.

I don’t have a problem with that.

And yes I removed her. I removed her because of her participation in something that was a full on attack of me in this group. That is not normal behavior. It’s certainly not normal behavior for a group that is about gifting. It’s pack mentality bullshit, and that is definitely not my jam. I mean, did they seriously think I was just going to sit there and let them abuse me or anyone else in my group?

Of course, because social media thrives on mob mentality, the comments on this post turned in part to not merely being wonderful that that the community was able to come together to help this woman, but nasty comments about me.

Part of it has to do with the fact this particular group of people can be quite parochial in their mindset. If you didn’t grow up with them in their neighborhoods and go to their high school, etc. you are just not anyone they can relate to. It’s pretty simple, and the funny thing is it doesn’t bother me that they can’t relate to me because they’re strangers and I don’t really want or need to know most of them.

I am always at a loss why people like this find me so fascinating. Perhaps it’s because I’m a blogger. Perhaps it’s because I speak my truth. Perhaps it’s a combination of both.

Nevertheless I am one woman. Don’t these people have hobbies?

If you don’t fit in their limited world view you are bad. So bad.

And again today I just shake my head and wonder what it is that they don’t comprehend? Not everyone has to be like them. None of us will put on this earth to be identical to everyone else

It’s just one of those things about life today that can be a little bit sad. And it’s not sad because I’m feeling sad because I’m not, it’s sad because that the only way that these rather limited people know how to be.