Shhhhhhhhhhh, don’t tell Marriage I’ve been talking about him behind his back! He’s got a really bad temper.
I love you, too. And I’m a big fan of projection. Come on over here, let me give you a big kiss, and make those anger issues all better.
This reminds me of Zooey Deschanel’s recent griping about internet haters. I’ve been dying to talk about this because people gave her cyber high-fives all over the place and completely ignored the hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness inherent in her commentary. Thanks so much for sending me an opportunity to do so. Zooey’s response to people saying “mean” things on the internet? Don’t read it or watch it if you like it and don’t say mean things about it on the internet because negativity murders creativity. Er, Zooey? Doesn’t that advice apply to you as well? No one forces you to read mean comments on the internet (although I admit that the internet can be a particularly vicious and non-constructive place). Are people not allowed to have and express an honest opinion of the work you chose to put up for public consumption? Or is it just that they’re only allowed to have opinions that agree with your opinion? She was careful to distinguish “meanness” from constructive criticism and then blew the comparison by telling people to keep their mouths shut if all they have to say it “I don’t like X.” This fuckery coupled with The New Girl (infantilized, one-dimensional women who can’t figure out teh secks even when menz try and try to explain it are soooo hawt) is almost enough to make me forget about the gift that is Eulogy. Vag-In-A-Town! Go see Eulogy. You won’t be sorry.
Discuss amongst yourselves. Disagree with me if you feel so inclined. (But don’t be mean or else I’ll have to cry and bite my pillow!) The first comment after Zooey’s rant is about the horrors of the Tumblr ask box because anonymity is oh-so-bad (for people who are interested in censoring your right to express your thoughts). I guess what I don’t understand is how people are confused by the fact that making genuinely hateful and abusive comments reveals more about the person making the comment than it does about the person being commented upon.
As long as we’re talking about hate and anger and vitriol, can we talk about Work It? The concept is so deeply, offensively sexist and such a blatant revelation and exaltation of the phobias that our male-dominated society has about treating women, transsexuals, transvestites, and pretty much anyone who isn’t a heterosexual male with dignity and equality that I cannot accurately express my dismay and outrage.
