often seen in the street without a hat

I've read her email in response to me, and unfortunately sees it mostly as a personal attack on her rather than her blog post (and I do agree with her that the last part could have been left out). I was, however, responding to the attitudes she espouses in the post, but I suppose that's difficult to separate from personal attack. I'd be interested to hear if you get a response from her as well. Hopefully I'll have time later today to reply to her and try to explain this, as well as argue some more over her points.