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Recently I have been reading a lot of hate mail. Upon examination, I never found two hate mails to be exactly alike. Notwithstanding, they all seem remarkably similar, with only a few different isotopes among them. My observations have shown me that even when the hate mail is in regards to radically different subjects, the hate mail itself is largely context unspecific.

To my experiences, most hate mail is short to medium length, and largely says the same things. One typically finds an abundance of swear words and mechanical errors, and will often find entire electronic mails in capital letters. Most commonly, hate mail seems to include one of the following themes no matter what it is on:
“Get a real job”
“Keep your opinions to yourself”
“Shut the ******** up”
“You’re stupid”
“Grow up/Get life”
“You obviously have too much time on your hands”
“You can shove your article up your a**”
However, for all of their commonness, there is some context specific material: If the hate mail is coming from Bush supporters one can expect “commie” “traitor” “go back to your country” “has homeland security knocked on your door yet” as well as plenty of sexual oriented insults. They also seem to reference animals one may find in rural America: “YOUU AM ******** PIG!” “Your ma wears a strap on and ******** goats” or “GO KILL YOURSELV YOU RABBIT MASTURBATING JACK-a**!” They also tend to request some physical action on your part as is demonstrated in “GO SLAP BOTH OF YOUR PARENTS FOR GIVING YOU BIRTH TO A LOUSY PIECE OF s**t LIKE YOU.”
Another phenomenon I have seen is that male hate-mail writers are much more likely to employ the word “f*****t” in their denouncement of one.

Despite some context related material, for example the hate mail that Dr. David Thorp received for his article on Avenged Seven Fold would reference A7X and challenged David to perform something better than the musicians he insulted. It seems that one could easily make a generic hate mail template. It might look something like the following:

U ARE A STUPID ******** FOR WHAT YOU SED ABOUT (BLANK)! U WISH U COULD (BLANK) AS GOOD AS (BLANK)! U HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY s**t ABOUT (BLANK)!!!!!!! U HAVE GOT TO ******** GROW UP AND GET A LIFE AND GET A REAL ******** JOB AND STOP COWARDLY ******** SITTING INFROUNT OF THAT MONITOR AND SAYING s**t ABOUT WAT U DON’T EVEN KNOW!!!!! DIDN’T YOUR ******** PEACE OF s**t MOM TELL YOU TO KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF????? U OBVIOUSLY HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS U CAN TAKE YOUR ******** s**t ARTICLE AND SHOVE IT UP YOU a**!!!!!!!!!!!

However, I suspect that no one will ever create or use a generic hate mail template because hate mail is therapeutic for the user. It probably makes them feel vented to have spewed forth a heap of rhetorical feces. I am also inclined to think that the hate mail author may feel vindicated after squeezing out such a loaf of verbal foulness.



Has anyone here wrote hate mail? If so, was it in all caps and did it say ******** more than 5 times? I am curious to get some feed back from someone who has written the kind of hate mail that I have surveyed so much of. Do you feel proud? Avenged? Do swear words, capital letters, and insults directed toward the writer of whatever angered you leave you with a sense of accomplishment? Do you feel like you have made some real change? Please post your experience of writing hate mail.