My post “She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes by the Sink” spent time as one of the most popular things on the internet over the weekend. As of this writing, it has been read more than 2.3 million times.
For context, my previous most popular post had been read about 100,000 times. Over the course of 2 ½ years.
As a writer, you’re like Cool! People are validating my work! But then the comments start rolling in.
“Be a man. Pussy.”
“Your wife was a nagging shrew and you’re better off without her if she would leave you over something petty like a glass by the sink.”
“You’re STILL missing the point if you think she left you because of dishes!”
“You’re a sackless fag.”
“You’re sexist because you wrote that ‘Men are capable of things’ as if women couldn’t do those things, too!”
“You’re sexist because you write about how horrible men are, but never talk about how women can be the problem too!”
My personal favorite was the Canadian high school girl who tweeted that my wife left because I write like “a whiny teenage girl.”
That was discouraging.