AlanInAustin came up with a helluva idea.

First, here’s a story you’ll chuckle at.  In Florida, anti-gat cakes are apparently all the rage.

When a caller asked Sharon Haller to make a sheet cake with an anti-gay-marriage message, the Longwood baker thought it was a prank and hung up.

But a day later, Haller was still dealing with threats and other fallout after a video of the conversation was posted online.

“People said we should go kill ourselves,” said Haller, owner of Cut the Cake bakery. “They are being very threatening.”

And here is where Alan’s idea blooms.  He emails me —

A party calls a bakery asking for a cake with an anti-gay message on it and the bakery refuses. An “evangelist” then goes nuts claiming the bakery is anti-Christian (this despite the fact that the caller didn’t reveal his religion and that the refusal was based on the message, not anything about the caller).

In honor of this occasion, I’m moved to create a new word:

fictim (n): a mashup of the words “faux” and “victim”, this describes a person desperate for attention who claims serious personal offense when not being given their own way regardless of how justifiable the reason.

Nailed it.

Thanks to AlaninAustin for the heads up and the new word.