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“You Have No Dignity.”

“Um, you’ve never met me.”

Ted Bauer
2 min readApr 18, 2025

Oldie but a funny one.

I’ll keep this short and won’t belabor the obvious points about relatively-faceless online communication, which is flawed and anger-driven too often.

Here’s the set-up: last week, I wrote a post about Katrina K. after she dragged me on an email blast of hers. Some of the post is stupid, for sure, but the core idea — that it’s hard to preach and practice inclusion and then talk shit on people who don’t fit into your molds and boxes — is still there. I got dragged by a bunch of people online for this post (predictably), including this gem last night as I was making dinner:

“Unbearably low standards” feels very tolerant of others, and very inclusive and nice and all that. It’s very HR-speaky, isn’t it?

Anyway, someone else on the same thread — since deleted — told me I had “no dignity.”

The person who said that has:

  • Never met me once in-person.
  • Never had a conversation with me.
  • I think we’ve maybe exchanged two emails ever.
  • Possibly did a few…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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