Someone stole my blog!

I was browsing the raw feed here on Shine's Love and Sex section this afternoon when I came upon an interesting title. Why did I find it interesting? Because it similar to a post I had written a few months ago about romance and sex. Naturally, I clicked the link expecting to find someone with similar views on the subject like myself in hopes of comisserating with a fellow user.

The user's views weren't just similar, they were the same. Exactly the same. I was reading my article entitled "Romance doesn't start in the vagina". The formatting was just a little different from the copy and paste the user had done and a couple of paragraphs were deleted entirely, but there was no doubt that it was my post.

The only real difference was the headline:  ...VaGinA iS not A waY For ReaL RoMaNce... I should have known nothing good ever comes from the misuse of captial letters.

I am mortified. I worked very hard on that particular peice. It took hours to compose and more hours to edit it. I was incredibly proud of my writing and it is one of my personal favorites. Seeing it in someone else's blog with no citation to me made me angry. Seeing the comments left giving accolades for the "writer's" (quotes are for sarcasm) smart article and wisdom made me absolutely livid!

Before I knew it, I was typing a comment to the "author" (sarcasm) stating that I did not like her reprinting my work as her own. In hindsight, I should have skipped that step and gone directly to the "Report" link. That was my second step.

I'm not sure of how exaclt Shine copyrights user blogs, but I'm pretty sure they frown on such plagarism. I asked that they make the woman either cite my article to give me credit or remove the post entirely. Frankly, I'd rather her have to admit that she freaking stole my work!

Had she merely written something like "I found this great article by Care and let me add my two cents to what she said..." I would have been fine, happy even. The fact that she decided to just copy and paste my article just floors me. The fact that she thought it was okay and that I'd never see her post is just freaking crazy; Crazier than thinking it was just peachy to claim someone else's work as their own.