Halls of the Dark Muse

Just a quick recap for those who have not read the original blog entry, I have this other blog in which I posted an essay about the myth of Medusa, giving my own personal interpretation of the myth, and this guy posted a comment basically explaining to me why A. my personal perception of the myth is incorrect and B. Arguing against my right to even have my own personal interpretation of a work of mythology. And he followed his arguments with a completely unprovoked and uncalled for personal attack against me.

Well the saga continues:

After I addressed his insults against me, in a way to say the least was not so flattering, and yet still I think a step above his own level of maturity which he has displayed, he came back and apologized to me for in his own words his "below the belt attacks"

At first I thought, ah a glimmer of hope, that was quite unexpended and rather surprised, well you know what they say. If something seems too good to be true....

He then proceeded to respond to my acceptance of his apology with guess what? More random uncalled for out of place insults.

I of all people never thought I would be say this about another person, but I think someone needs to work on their people skills (and this time it actually isn't me, which is the scary part)

He has since then preceded to drop in on my blog periodically just to leave random antagonistic catty remarks.

And I tried to explain to him once, that if he found the material upon my blog so offensive to him, he didn't actually have to keep visiting it. He was free to stop viewing at it at any given time.

But I think I figured out what the problem is, actually I think it is one of two possibilities.

Either option A: He is like a child that establishes a pattern of bad behavior as a way of getting attention, because I cannot imagine how anyone could actually stand to be around the guy in real life so he must not have very many friends, so he just lashes out just to get a reaction from other people, because he doesn't have a life beyond apparently harassing blogs which he doesn't even like.

or option B: He is one of those people that in the real world doesn't' have the gall to stand up to himself, and probably has a job that he hates, or a wife that keeps him on a short leash, and so he hides behind the veil of anonymity on the Internet to try to bully people around who he doesn't actually have to confront as a way to make him feel like a man and like he is in control.