User blog comment:PrettyRaveGirl/I'M REALLY PISSED!!! READ THIS!!!/@comment-34814-20110622024844/@comment-34814-20110622030538

She was terse bordering on rude.

You know, that's a problem a lot of people who do a lot of critiquing have. I do it myself sometimes even though I know to watch out for it. They get so concerned with "telling it like it is" when critiquing, that they get so concerned with the "telling it" part that they lose a bit of sight over what "it" is.

Like, I personally didn't find Mikaela (sp?) revoltingly Sueish... I took the scene with her flipping off the blond girl more as characterization as kind of stuck up and arrogant (or maybe just prejudiced against blonds because she's a goth), not the author trying to make her appear perfect at someone else's expense.

The game I play where I do a lot of writing and critiquing is called efedding, which by the nature of the way it works doesn't have Mary Sues the same way fanfiction does. So I can easily sympathize (not agree, just sympathize) with a reviewer who, on seeing a Mary Sue, reads the story with a negative slant rather than a more neutral open minded one.