About that WordPress pic

Many of you have been very kind and supportive of my recent profile pic change. I appreciate that, but I am going to go back to my old photo. I don’t see the problem, It was a simple head shot cropped from a larger picture.  I realise this might seem like a stupid thing to announce, but here is the reason behind the logic. I thought my photo was fine. I didn’t really want to change it, until I got this in my inbox yesterday:

Ionia–

Hi,

It’s       X      from           X             blog here on wordpress. I know that you have a pretty big following and I wanted to share an opinion with you on something. You are a smart girl from what I can see and it pains me to see that a lot of the male bloggers are reblogging your posts and flirting with you in the comments. This demeans your intelligence and makes you look a lot less professional IMO. I think part of the problem is your wp photo. It looks rather suggestive and like you are trying to lure men in and of course, they will then think you are an easy target. I like it a lot when you do book reviews and the writing posts you do but all the stuff about squirrels and other nonsense stuff is just to get comments and attract attention. It is the wrong kind of attention. Literally everywhere I go on wordpress I see you pop up on some guy’s blog and there you are bantering back and forth with him in the comments. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with this exactly, its your choice how you want to appear to everyone. I’m just saying that you could have a better reputation if you were to change your picture to something more modest and keep the commenting with the males to a minimum. I hope you din’ think I’m being mean. I’m not trying to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do. I’m really saying that people (men) will reblog and repost and talk everyone’s ear off about how great Ionia is and it has nothing to do with how hard you work or what you put out there. Those of us who don’t look lke you do will not get this kind of attention and I guess that’ how the world works, but still.

Sorry if this upsets you, just giving my opinion.

respectufully,

X

So here is what I have to say about the situation after careful examination. I am me. That is who I am. I don’t want to be you. That is your job. If you don’t like what i post then feel free not to read it. If you don’t like what I use as a profile photo then please, feel free not to look at it. If you do, then please feel welcome to be my friend. I am not infringing on your right to be who you are. If you disagree with me, good. I like carefully thought out debates. If you want to judge me for something you think I have done, go ahead but do it quietly.

In other words, if you are the mean sort who just want to complain:

Bite Me.

All you will do is break a tooth.

Didn’t like my headshot huh? It was too racy?

What do you all think? Is there a time when people should just mind their own business?