I loved that Rebellion Barbie had one of the on-air responses.
And yet somehow the supportive youtube commenters still think I'm a fat middle aged man with no social skills and could never get a girl. I guess the blonde chick in the icon and "BARBIE" in the name wasn't obvious enough for them? Wouldn't surprise me. XD
She selected the one tweet that didn't carry real weight. This is what I originally said to her:
Dear @Frazzie --I send letters to my congressmen, raise money for charities, do work with Make a Wish, and go to Comic Con. You're a moron.
Also, @Frazzie what the hell does "protest the economy" mean? Am I supposed to go to DC and say "down with the economy" or something?
(Really, I mean...go to DC and protest the economy? Hello, English much? How about protest the congressmen, protest the heads of the different parties, or even just "protest the way the economic crisis is being handled"? No, "protest the economy." Someone got her Communications degree from community college with straight C's....)
And @Frazzie I and many others would have our dinners doggie-bagged and hand our leftovers off to the homeless around SD. Fact check please.
One of the most beautiful things I saw at the con was a girl run back across the railroad and ask a homeless man if he wanted her extra string cheese, and he almost cried. It was just so touching. But donating to foodbanks doesn't end the problem, which I get into in my rebuttal tweets.)
So she airs the very last one I wrote. And then continues on to "apologise", retract her statements, then RESTATE THE VERY SAME ONES. So, I did indeed respond.
@Frazzie some apology. Retract your statement, then restate it again? Btw, discussed it with my mother who's the VP of an economics...
@Frazzie ...company, putting money into local businesses, travel, hotels, etc. is better stimulus for the economy than standing around w/...
@Frazzie ...signs in DC. I still write to my congressmen and one of my most important missions in life is to change how the homeless are...
@Frazzie ...treated as some 85% of them have untreated psychiatric issues and not enough is being done about it. That keeps me up at night.
@Frazzie I also donate my own money to charity as well as participate in fundraising events and make-a-wish. I spent the weekend at SDCC.
@Frazzie I don't care if it's nerd-bashing or not, I'm secure in being a geek. Just DON'T tell me that by liking costumes I am ignorant to...
@Frazzie ...the world around me and don't care about humanity and don't do my part, because it's not true. Your apology was crap.
Then I realized that she had posted the link on her twitter, with the very cute hashtag of "#hatersgonnahate". Really pitiful, and shows the obvious lack of grace with which she apologized and how butthurt she was over the hatemail, so I laughed and decided to add one more tweet to hit her where she hurt.
Oh, and nice "haters will be haters" hashtag, @Frazzie -- very professional. I should start one too huh? #CommunicationsWasYourCopoutMajor
So....I'm not as refined as Victoria there haha.
My main issue with it wasn't the nerd-bashing. I don't care, I'm secure in my geekiness. I'm also confident that I'm prettier, skinnier, and smarter than her (I know that's really obnoxious for me to say, but it gets my point across that I'm not intimidated by her or anyone else), and when I have my degrees, my work will influence society far more than being a journalist on a russian youtube news show, so I have no jealousy of her or anyone who isn't a geek.
What pissed me off was the blanket accusation that I don't live in the real world and don't do anything for humanity, my nation, the wold around me. I donate my own money to charities. I participate in fundraisers. I write to my congressmen. I put money back into the economy. One of my biggest missions in life is to do something about the lack of psychiatric care for the homeless. My other is to raise awareness about the same problems with children, because not nearly enough is understood about it. Protesting in DC does nothing--they don't listen to that sort of thing anymore. I do my part for society, I pull my weight, probably more than she does.
What I was truly offended by was her claim that I am ignorant of reality because I enjoy fantasy. Which, by the way, was a claim she did not retract. So she can still kiss my ass. :rolleyes
PS: Why is she so focused on the American economy and big oil and banks, huh? Is that what I should be concerned about? How about all the people dying in Libya under the regime of a mad dictator? Or the continual treatment of women in Egyptian society? Or how AIDS and TB are still spreading like wildfire through different countries in Africa? Y'know, we're all being hit by the recession here. But working part time at McDonalds in the slums will get you further than some full-time near-slave-labor jobs in third world countries. Boo-frickity-hoo about our economy. There are far more devastating things out there than the most rich and powerful country in the world having an economic crisis in part because Boehner has a stick up his rear (not to get any political arguments started here). Me and mine are being affected every day by the recession and it sucks and it hurts. But even in this country, there are more important and pressing matters than the fact that the Banks and Big Oil are corrupt, there really are. I still eat, have a roof over my head, have access to my medications. I am a very lucky human being in that right. I choose what problems in the world matter most to me and focus on them, raise awareness and money for those causes, like psychiatric conditions in children which is phenomenally under-researched and poorly understood, and children from the richest households in the richest countries to the poorest households in the poorest countries are profoundly and excruciatingly effected--there are homeless people in this country who grew up in upper middle class families who never got the treatment for schizophrenia they needed; this issue transcends every class of humanity and almost nothing is being done, that's where my efforts are focused. But I'm still allowed to like dressing up as a Star Wars character for a convention I spent 3 days at. I don't have to devote my life to the causes that are most important to this chick, and whether it be conventions or sporting events or what have you, EVERYONE has the right to escape how crappy reality is for a couple days if they can afford to.
Blah, I wish someone would send that original report to the Daily Show, screw 'protesting the economy', I would pay to see Jon Stewart rip her apart haha. :love