Anything posted by WF claiming to be RH technically doesn't hold much weight as evidence goes, since anybody could scrape reviews etc and repost them, taking credit for the work. Ditto linking. But if RH had pointers going toward WF, as it sounds like was the case . . . then yeah, no, that disavowal doesn't hold much water. (Especially since it rather strains credulity that RH either did not know about her impostor, or allowed it to pass unremarked, for all that time.)
Since RH never came out and said directly "I'm not Winterfox" -- her actual words were "I didn’t tell anyone to get raped by dogs" -- then it's possible that what she's actually claiming is that someone impersonated Winterfox on at least one occasion. Which is possible, I suppose: looking at Mixon's report, that comment was on a semi-private forum and has been deleted, so there's a chance that the WF there was not the real one. (Either that, or the pairing with the comment about the impostor obfuscates the fact that what she's actually saying is that this particular incident never took place.) Even if one of those interpretations is true, that still leaves us with a rather large body of inexcusable actions taken by RHB in the WF persona. Being innocent of one particular offense doesn't really change the balance of her behavior.
She stalked me for three years, and I have yet to get an apology. I made a public request, which I am certain she knows about given how assiduously she reads my blog, for her to publicly promise to leave me alone from now on. I outlined the exact phrasing and where I wanted her to put her promise (on both her blogs). She has yet to do so.
In situations like this, I try very hard to look for angles from which things might look better, as a corrective against the impulse to just take everything in the worst light possible. The best I can do here is to think that RHB went after so many people, she has either lost track of them all and therefore hasn't apologized everywhere she should, or is still working her way through the list.
. . . neither of those seems terribly likely, mind you. But they're the best I can do.
The more I look at her words and actions, the less I trust her seeming contrition. Picking through the WF bit above, for example, makes her wording look seriously weaselly, calibrated to give a certain impression while never coming out and saying the thing directly -- i.e. leaving her room to backpedal. I do keep hoping I'm wrong, because the world would be a better place if she actually did feel sorry. My hope, however, is not very strong.
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Date: 2014-11-12 10:08 am (UTC)Since RH never came out and said directly "I'm not Winterfox" -- her actual words were "I didn’t tell anyone to get raped by dogs" -- then it's possible that what she's actually claiming is that someone impersonated Winterfox on at least one occasion. Which is possible, I suppose: looking at Mixon's report, that comment was on a semi-private forum and has been deleted, so there's a chance that the WF there was not the real one. (Either that, or the pairing with the comment about the impostor obfuscates the fact that what she's actually saying is that this particular incident never took place.) Even if one of those interpretations is true, that still leaves us with a rather large body of inexcusable actions taken by RHB in the WF persona. Being innocent of one particular offense doesn't really change the balance of her behavior.
She stalked me for three years, and I have yet to get an apology. I made a public request, which I am certain she knows about given how assiduously she reads my blog, for her to publicly promise to leave me alone from now on. I outlined the exact phrasing and where I wanted her to put her promise (on both her blogs). She has yet to do so.
In situations like this, I try very hard to look for angles from which things might look better, as a corrective against the impulse to just take everything in the worst light possible. The best I can do here is to think that RHB went after so many people, she has either lost track of them all and therefore hasn't apologized everywhere she should, or is still working her way through the list.
. . . neither of those seems terribly likely, mind you. But they're the best I can do.
The more I look at her words and actions, the less I trust her seeming contrition. Picking through the WF bit above, for example, makes her wording look seriously weaselly, calibrated to give a certain impression while never coming out and saying the thing directly -- i.e. leaving her room to backpedal. I do keep hoping I'm wrong, because the world would be a better place if she actually did feel sorry. My hope, however, is not very strong.