Because I have to grumble and don't feel like doing it in an actually public forum...

When I go out of my way to specify that I'm not intending to be offensive and you aren't the person who I'm talking to, don't make an ass of yourself.
I have a friend from high school choir class. He is a fairly nice young man and tries his best to be friendly. Sadly though, he has one thing that tends to get in the way of my communication with him. Religion.
So he made a post about what he should give up for lent. Now we've talked now and then and he knows that I'm more of a joker than actually trying to make a point. My comment was "Give up belief based holidays?" and right afterward said "^Intended to be a joke, I didn't notice how snarky it sounded until after I had posted it." just to cover my ass and make it clear that I wasn't actually trying to piss him off, just nudge at him a little.
A woman right after me decided to say something along the lines of "I'm glad that he specified he was joking, otherwise I'd be offended." Seriously bitch? First... This is my profile photo ->
Not exactly masculine... Or at least I hope not.
Next, my profile name is Odera Naomi. I understand that "Odera" doesn't seem like a terribly telling name, but "Naomi" is a biblical name. Even with Naomi as a last name (Which is a little ridiculous) If you have *ANY* question about someone's gender, you put a non gender specific pronoun. "They" possibly? Or "That person"? Is this really so difficult?
That being stated, I replied (like a snarky bitch). "He? Seriously? >.> Naomi is a biblical name. I'm offended for the religion you were almost offended about. o.o"
Richard said "This ends now." I replied "Yessir" and for me it was over, although I was sad that I didn't have the chance to ream her a bit (how un-Christian of me). She then replied, trying to defend herself, mentioning that she didn't bother to look at my picture and she was used to Naomi being in the last name spot. I get that, I really do. But he had told us that it was done so it was done. The funniest part is that right afterward another of his friends said "Give up lent for lent" and he ended up deleting the whole thread and re-making it. Part of me is curious about how that's gone so far, but I'm sure someone else will tell him to give up lent for lent and it will piss him off all over again. Religion is a strange and seemingly painful thing... I'm glad that I don't have it... Although it was nice talking to the Mormon boys who came by today ^.~ I'd have made out with one of them... >.>... Does that make me a bad person?
(He even comes right to my door in a suit with another boy ^.~ I didn't think they were supposed to be into that sort of thing... Bad Naomi Bad!!!)

~Naomi Marie