Actually, I take that back. Passive resistance, the settling back into a chair and making snarky comments from afar, is not enough. The belief that making snide comments is enough implicitly posits that your opinion is a generally held consensus, that common sense is common, that hatred and intolerance is the aberration rather than the norm. Teaching people to hate is EASY. It's a walk in the frickin' park (e.g.: a random page in any history book). Teaching people to love and accept is HARD. (I seem to recall a fairy tale about a fellow who tried, and wound up nailed to a tree.)

Intolerance (pardon the paradox) must NOT be tolerated. In the desire to appear unbiased, the ABC article is part ridicule of these girls and part love letter. Ignoring the problem won't make it go away, either. The only thing that makes me angrier that the hatemongers is those who say that "attention is all they want, ignore them and they'll go away." It's more correct to say that a forum is all they want, and ignoring them GIVES THEM ONE, along with your implicit acceptance that their viewpoint has value.

Anyway, morning rants are the worst - my apologies for it's length and vitriol.