Staring down controversy

I did something dumb, I read comments on a social media post about a story I wrote. I knew I should have ignored it from the beginning but, me being the curious little cat I am, I just had to.

A number of people seemed to be upset about a word that was used in the headline. I am not sure most of them even bothered to read the whole story before they began their onslaught of comments. The word in qu…