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I do not even know what to say to this woman at this point. I am not shocked that this is the first time she has received hatemail, her regular audience regularly loves this kind of stuff based on comments to her stories. They made the mistake of drawing in a more rational outside audience this time and it bit them in the butt.

I would love to debate circles around her over this.
 
I hope people tweet her about that follow up story too as it was almost as insulting and poorly thought out as the original piece.
 
My response to the retort:

1. Comic Con attendees probably don't have a heating bill problem and are most likely able to eat dinner each night.
2. Choice between giving away your money to those in need vs. attending Comic Con? A crossroads in everyone's life but have a feeling the Geek crowd will choose Comic Con but still use their powers for good in volunteering at events!
3. Oil companies will always have $$$Billions$$$ of dollars! A fact we have to just accept and go buy a hybrid or electric car.........but wait how can I do that next year if I want to go to Comic Con? Another crossroads in life!:cry
 
As I said on Facebook, I know this wasn't the apology we might have wanted, but the fact that she acknowledged this at all and acknowledged the immediate and strong rebuttal from the Comic Con community really says something about us. Of course she is going to sidestep to save face but her response is a HUGE win for us.
 
Larry Young said:
I loved that Rebellion Barbie had one of the on-air responses.
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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.
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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?
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(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.
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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.
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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
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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
 
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:lol You go girl!! :lol

You are two kind calling her a journalist though.
 
apollo said:
:lol You go girl!! :lol

You are two kind calling her a journalist though.
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"I-Flunked-Out-Of-My-Business-Major-And-Had-To-Switch-To-Communications-To-Avoid-Academic-Expulsion-At-My-State-School-But-Still-Barely-Scraped-By-And-Thank-God-I-Have-Nice-Hair-Because-That's-How-I-Got-Hired-To-Be-A-Reporter-On-A-Youtube-Channel-Otherwise-I'd-Still-Be-Working-At-Starbucks"-ist?

Sorry, I'm mean. Actually no, I'm totally not sorry. :lol


They just brought a dumb b*tch to a nerd fight. ;)
 
That is the kind of response I wanted to give her, but she apparently only responds to Twitter which does not lend itself well to a properly supported argument. Victoria did a great job defending herself and our hobby while being ambushed, I would hate to see the massacre if someone went into that interview with well prepared talking points.
 
RebellionBarbie said:
Sorry, I'm mean. Actually no, I'm totally not sorry. :lol


They just brought a dumb b*tch to a nerd fight. ;)
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Kudos for your last couple of posts - you're dead on right on all points. :thumbsup

The dislikes on that non-apology video are climbing :)

I sent her a couple of tweets as well but she's obviously never going to understand her insult. I've heard it before and they never get it.

Had a coworker who looked over my small collection of action figures and some Gundam model figures (which I spent quite a bit of effort building and painting). She started telling me about a relative who liked to stay inside and paint figures (presumably something like Warhammer) on 'nice, sunny days' and how she thought he needed to get outside rather than doing that. I get the same vibe from that woman. Cluelessly condescending.
 
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All I can say is, thank crikey it was Victoria there and not me. I would have NEVER been able to hold my cool the way she did in the face of such stupidity. Which I'm sure is EXACTLY what the interviewer was hoping for. To get a comic con nerd to flip out on tv defending their silly little hobby. instead, Victoria pretty much just steam rolled her with silly little tools like logic and reason. I love it!!!! Great work ScruffyRebel!

Too bad you weren't humming the Anovos theme song during the parts where she was talking :lol
 
And I have no idea what she was trying to do at the end of her apology video when she was tying up Comic Con with big banks making money. My take away was "your hobby is STILL stupid, compared to all these other world problems that I have decided you should be focusing on."

Still, at the end of the day, I think the hobby ends up smelling like a rose, while she is picking egg off her face.
 
Evil Benius said:
That is the kind of response I wanted to give her, but she apparently only responds to Twitter which does not lend itself well to a properly supported argument. Victoria did a great job defending herself and our hobby while being ambushed, I would hate to see the massacre if someone went into that interview with well prepared talking points.
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Yeah, she chose the one tweet of mine that was merely a snide remark. Then again I don't think I could really make my argument across to her in 140 characters. Actually...I don't think I could make the point across to anyone as dumb as her haha. Just keep in mind, the original interview just as Victoria was pwning her, she cut her off and was all "OH NOES OUT OF TIME BYEEE" to avoid actually having to debate her totally incorrect point against Victoria's astute observation of how the geeks impact the SD economy, so a genuine argument was not something she was likely to air lol.



One major thing that irks me is how she tries to guilt trip us all, even in her so-called apology. She says 'how can we go to comic con when there are homeless people in san diego?' Well, how can people go to the zoo when there are homeless people in san diego? How can we eat a full meal until we want to throw up when there are starving people in third world countries? How can we go on vacation to aruba when there are homeless people in our cities AND in aruba? The answer is very simple: we have the means to do so.

Life isn't fair. In fact, life sucks. The world isn't fair either. That doesn't mean that the Haves have to feel guilty about not being the Have-Nots. I refuse to let this woman or anyone else guilt-trip me about having the financial means to go on vacation when others are on the street. I suffer from illnesses that cause people to wind up on the street, but I'm one of the luckiest because I'm surrounded by supportive family and friends and we have the means to get treatment. Does that mean I should feel guilty and become an ascetic? No. Does that mean that I should take my good fortune for granted and ignore the less priveledged? No. I do my part to give back, as I have stated before. A lot of us do.

I don't feel guilty that I have money and others don't. Guilt is not the right word. I feel pained, and I want to do something about it. I do my best, and I think a lot of us do. But I don't feel guilty. I shouldn't. No one should feel guilty about having the means to indulge in a convention when others can't afford to feed themselves. I may seem like a Have talking out my rear, but in one way I am certainly a Have-Not. I am very ill. I'm barely able to get out of bed many days, my illness is chronic, incurable, poorly understood, so far untreatable, and my doctors don't even know if this is stable or progressive, all they can do for me is make me comfortable, pump me full of pain medication so I can sort of function. Still, I can't do many of the normal every-day tasks that I guarentee every one of you take for granted. But you know what? That's not something anyone should feel guilty about. I would never want anyone to feel guilty that they have their health and I don't. That's just how life works--it's not fair. In health, I drew the short stick. It's nobody's fault that I'm sick, it's nobody's fault that I'm not getting better. If all my friends decided that they were not going to do the things I am no longer able to do because they felt guilty that they can and I can't would just be stupid and completely counter-productive, and most importantly, it would change nothing. Just like I hate it when "Real Women Have Curves" groups have tried to make me feel guilty about my body shape. I don't starve myself or get plastic surgery, so I make no apologies. I feel no guilt. This is life. My not going to San Diego and not dressing up in costumes isn't likely to positively impact the world somehow.

If we all decided that since there are homeless people in San Diego, we should give up going to Comic Con out of guilt, that would be TERRIBLE for the economy. We're doing our part. Spending equals growth. She'd have learned that if she hadn't flunked her economics class, which she absolutely must have to miss that.

I did have another argument about how her "not living in reality" BS was...well, BS, but I forgot what I was gonna say. I'm sure I'll remember it later haha.


And Apollo--don't worry, it is RIDICULOUSLY hard to get on my bad side. You have to be trying very, very hard. :lol
 
RebellionBarbie said:
One major thing that irks me is how she tries to guilt trip us all, even in her so-called apology. She says 'how can we go to comic con when there are homeless people in san diego?' Well, how can people go to the zoo when there are homeless people in san diego? How can we eat a full meal until we want to throw up when there are starving people in third world countries? How can we go on vacation to aruba when there are homeless people in our cities AND in aruba? The answer is very simple: we have the means to do so.
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How can we waste so much time on a news segment about Comic Con....oh wait.
 
Evil Benius said:
How can we waste so much time on a news segment about Comic Con....oh wait.
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Haha really. Come on, it's a comic book convention, isn't there real news to be reported? I still fail to see how comic book nerds are the horsemen of the economic apocalypse.

But hey, that's why they're on youtube and not TV.
 
Victoria acquitted herself well. I may be imagining this but I could see in her eyes when she says "Oh no you don't! You are not going to skewer me and/or us like this!"

The non-apology vid was a fail too. Trying to stand behind the "we like to ask the tough questions" shield did nothing to convince me that society as a whole should forgo all discretionary spending until Utopia is achieved.
 
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