The clusterfuck around this comment has gotten really, really nasty on all sides, spread across various communities, but I've posted this before and I think it deserves to be posted again:

I'm acquainted with leafing from another community. Yes, that comment looks like one giant tortured and extremely inappropriate metaphor, but to put it in context--a plant metaphor is a typical leafing thing to say. She's obsessed with plants. Plants are her life. She has clinical depression and a difficult home life, and her main coping mechanism is to escape from the world and from people by tending her beloved plants. She sends plant seeds with her Christmas cards. She says herself that she doesn't understand people. In other words, she is probably not neurotypical, and her (inappropriate to the situation) use of a plant metaphor is a manifestation of that. That comment should be viewed with this in mind.

I'm not saying that there are no problems with what she's said, I'm saying that for everyone going "what is even going on in this comment?," there is an explanation for what seems, on the surface, to be complete WTF.