I have to write about this again, now!
Thanks this time go out to Lesley M.M. Blume. She apparently thinks Karl Lagerfeld finds her, personally, ugly for being a feminist, possibly due to a humor deficiency.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesley-m-m-blume/karl-lagerfeld-called-me_...

First of all, I have to say, titling her post "Karl Lagerfeld called me 'ugly'" is nothing short of sensationalism. And self-important.
She's referring to that article in Harper's Bazaar where Mr. Lagerfeld "channelled" Coco Chanel.  http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/coco-chanel-karl-l...
In said article, Mr. Lagerfeld answers a number of interview questions while pretending to be Coco Chanel. He mentions nothing about Ms. Blume. (It is even possible that he may not know who she is. I wonder if Claudia Schiffer does? How big is she in France? ** )
It is obvious from the get-go that the proceedings are not to be taken very seriously. I am not fanatical enough to have read everything there is to read about Karl Lagerfeld, but I have read enough that, if he were known to be a psychic medium, I would likely have run across it. I have not. Thus, I conclude- the entire piece is humor, and dare I say even a gimmick, as it is done in anticipation of the release of "Coco Avant Chanel", the movie about Ms. Chanel's life before she made it big.

The only Q&A she quotes from the article is,
" ' Harper's Bazaar:  Your clothing liberated women in the 1920s. Are you still a feminist?
Lagerfeld-as-Chanel: I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.' "

Then she immediately starts in with the familiar aggrieved feminist shtick, "This quip rankled me on many levels: as a woman, as a fashion consumer, as a writer for both adult and young women. It is a spiteful, irrelevant observation: one's appearance has nothing to do with one's relationship to feminism." This is standard outraged victim stuff. Oh, this terrible man victimized her, and all women, so let's get angry. Let's point our fingers at the male oppressor!

Never mind that it is a common joke that feminists are ugly (and angry). A joke told by as many women as men, I'd say.
Never mind that this man is at least 70 years old, and originally from Germany, which also has to be taken in context.
I don't expect a 70+ German man to have the same definition and understanding of feminism as I do. Why would she?

And more importantly, she ignores other parts of the exchange, which make it obviously humor, like,
"Harper's Bazaar: What's the new Chanel classic?
Coco Chanel: As apparently my old jacket is still around, done by this idiot Karl, I have to help him find a new idea."
Now, did you catch that? Karl Lagerfeld called himself an idiot! We obviously need to help him with this self-esteem problem! Oh, I'm feeling so Emo now, imagining him crying alone at night... What? It's a joke? Wow. Who could ever guess?
Maybe because we also have this:
"Harper'sBazaar: Do you still smoke and tan?
Coco Chanel: I am afraid yes, because the attitude of smoking looked great on me, as did a tan."
This is a funny line, and it's fairly clear Karl does not mean this for himself, for though he often looks tanned, it is relatively well-known that he does not smoke- or drink alcohol, for that matter. (except champagne, of course.)
Anyway, I think you get my point. This is clearly not Karl as Karl, therefore he did not really say any of these things.

Now here's why I'm writing on this topic again: To Ms. Blume's blog entry about this on Huffington Post I commented, "Ms. Blume, do you mind if I call you humorless?"
She responded fairly quickly, "Hmmm. You could but it wouldn't be true."
Then I said, "Sometimes the truth is what we know it to be, sometimes the truth is what we decide it to be."
This second comment passed moderation at first, then in another couple minutes when I refreshed to see if anyone said anything else, was gone. That kind of irked me.
If it hadn't passed moderation in the first place, I'd just say, Oh well.
But when it goes up and then comes down, I start wondering why.
I realize it could be a computer glitch. Which would make it petty of me to respond to being censored, if I really wasn't.
But her victim attitude about this humorous fluff piece still irks me, whether I was truly censored or not. So I write.

It's funny. I have a history of being made fun of, called a freak. In the past, I have even been told I should be shot, for being a witch. I am the very type of person one would expect to take this "ugly" thing personally- yet I did not. My first thought, instead, was, "Oh great. Someone is going to take this out of context and make an issue of it." I was, of course, correct. Even though I have no social life, and tend to isolate myself, I somehow know far more about people than one would think. Maybe it is because I had to learn a lot to survive? I have definitely had to observe and study people.

Obviously Ms. Blume is known and has credentials, while I am unknown and have none, but I still feel entitled to write this criticism. Goodness knows, that's what the internet seems to be for.

But I'm definitely going to follow her on Twitter now. That's how my sense of humor works.
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** This is meant to be a joke referencing something Karl Lagerfeld said about Heidi Klum- that he hadn't heard of her, nor had Claudia Schiffer, and she was never big in France.