[EvilEvilKitten]

and then there's me - the Reality Check.

No, I will not be 'nice' about responding to them because the world out there is not a kind one and it is actually better for them to hear it from me than to get slammed by someone who they're interested in - out there where it counts.

I tell the truth, try to make people think beyond their entrenched assumptions, and give them the 'how you appear to others' information so they'd actually think before they say or do something.

If this requires a brick upside the head, then it requires a brick upside the head.