And if these comments are moderated, then the good people at Quill and Quire should show some respect about posting personal attacks on an industry forum. A lack of professionalism at work here I think.

To temper the whole debate though, I wanted to say this: surely at least a measure of her wannabe “Sex and the City”/ditzy/litigious persona is just that — a public persona that she has adopted in order to increase her profile. Call me an optimist, but I really want to believe no one could be that vapid 24 hours a day. I’m sure that in the privacy of her own home, she’s a pretty normal person (…hopefully).

Paul, for someone who claims not to think about her at all, you certainly have a lot of venom.

And to the good people at Quill & Quire: Is this sort of character assassination really appropriate for what is meant to be an industry forum? Debate is one thing, but “disgusting personality . . . shitty etc.” this is just hate mongering.

She’s “crippled with a retarded sense of sympathy for others” is she? Not showing a lot of sympathy yourself there, Paul. (You know her that well, do you? Or do you just think about her all the time?)

Seriously folks, this is out of hand.

(I can’t believe I’m defending Rebecca Eckler!)

There is something actually disturbing about this story, though. A public figure, like Eckler, equating having such outspoken critics to being a teenager beset by bullies is only further evidence of her shitty, solipsistic attitude. This woman has given her reading public ever reason to assume she is self-absorbed, self-important, possessed of an unearned sense of entitlement and crippled with a retarded sense of sympathy for others.

Release the hounds, I say.

This is the one article of Rebecca Eckler’s where I have actually been on her side.