PrettySquareGal
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Yes!!! I'm glad you pointed that out, Prettysquaregal.
Thank you, Marc. (Nice to see you. LTNS.)
Yes!!! I'm glad you pointed that out, Prettysquaregal.
I think that regretsy deserves opprobrium where deserved and credit where it's due.
Ah, well, I see. As long as they slay the occasional dragon, it's perfectly OK for them to also mock people who aren't as smart, cool, talented, or Socially Conscious (TM) as they are. I stand corrected.
Whether it's "Regretsy," "People of Wal-Mart," or any other site like that, it ends up saying more about the stunted souls who create them than it does about the people they set themselves up to critique.
It should also be said that nothing is entirely black or white: There are merits and shortcomings to every website, group, organization, etc... And both can be argued for.
My problem with it is this: it's simply a symptom of the empty, stupid nihilism at the heart of so much of modern, and especially internet culture. Nothing is sacred, nothing is sincere, nothing is to be respected -- instead, everything is just a big fat ironic joke. Except most of the time the joke is childish, repetitious, cruel, and just not funny -- "snark" is the furthest possible thing from "wit." Whether it's "Regretsy," "People of Wal-Mart," or any other site like that, it ends up saying more about the stunted souls who create them than it does about the people they set themselves up to critique.
Me, I prefer to conserve my bile for those institutions which truly deserve it. It's more concentrated that way.
Me, I prefer to conserve my bile for those institutions which truly deserve it. It's more concentrated that way.
This was recently posted on Regretsy:http://www.regretsy.com/2011/08/05/faux-bos-and-faux-pas
Basically (and I got tired reading about halfway through and started skimming, so.. my summary is probably highly suspect) but it amounts to: I know what it feels like to be attacked like that, I'm sorry it happened to you because I understand, but you put it on the internet. I'm going to keep doing what I do.
A few years back she had a radio talk show here in L.A.
Basically (and I got tired reading about halfway through and started skimming, so.. my summary is probably highly suspect) but it amounts to: I know what it feels like to be attacked like that, I'm sorry it happened to you because I understand, but you put it on the internet. I'm going to keep doing what I do.
"Blame The Victim" is never right. Is it?