Cue the Greek Chorus

Although it's kind of early, I definitely know what my New Year's resolution will be this time around: I will never post a comment on line. Anywhere, about anything. It doesn't matter what you say, you will be excoriated by some faction - a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good -- that doesn't agree.

Bringing me to this resolution is a comment I made on Instagram recently. A video of an obese woman prancing in a bikini on a beach was accompanied by her voiceover, "I'm so happy I lost the baby weight after my pregnancy." Stunned that she thought she was no longer carrying extra weight, I wrote, "I see it." Someone else who had written, "Is this the before or after?" received no demerits from the Greek chorus, but for some reason my three little words raised the ire of a pack of howling hyenas who set upon me like a lion with a fresh kill.

While this was more than a week ago, the meanies are still hurling insults at me, saying who am I to talk, I am ugly and so old and stupid and how could one woman criticize another woman and I must be mentally ill and I am a dinosaur so my opinion doesn't count and I should get therapy.

Thank God I didn't write what I was really thinking.