The Bitchery.
Yet another complaint.
this time about the state of womankind, of all things. I think the sisterhood as envisioned by our feminist mothers did not include the cutthroat competitiveness and downright delight that seems to be taken in running down those more successful than us. And nowhere is this more obvious than with celebrities.
now, understand this, I loves me the gossip. The celebrity tattle, the witticisms, the sharp incisive comments, the keen eye for the dropped stitch. If you want to see good examples of good gossip, see Perez Hilton, Conversations about famous people, go fug yourself et al.
if you want to see examples of the lowest, snarkiest, most vicious hatespeech? check out the comments sections. yeah, it's pretty much every day that my enjoyment of said columns is pretty much defiled (defiled!) by the hatemongerers. okay. wait. that sounds like everybody who posts a comment is a bitch, which is not true at all. however, a large enough proportion of posters resort to snotty comments about things that are just hateful: calling people fat, or ugly, or even hobags that deserve to die (I'm paraphrasing here). Really, its more about the tone than the content.
it's this high-school mentality thing that I've always despised--- form cliques and try be the cool cheerleader at the top of the pile, and if you're not, sabotage her any way you can.
this time about the state of womankind, of all things. I think the sisterhood as envisioned by our feminist mothers did not include the cutthroat competitiveness and downright delight that seems to be taken in running down those more successful than us. And nowhere is this more obvious than with celebrities.
now, understand this, I loves me the gossip. The celebrity tattle, the witticisms, the sharp incisive comments, the keen eye for the dropped stitch. If you want to see good examples of good gossip, see Perez Hilton, Conversations about famous people, go fug yourself et al.
if you want to see examples of the lowest, snarkiest, most vicious hatespeech? check out the comments sections. yeah, it's pretty much every day that my enjoyment of said columns is pretty much defiled (defiled!) by the hatemongerers. okay. wait. that sounds like everybody who posts a comment is a bitch, which is not true at all. however, a large enough proportion of posters resort to snotty comments about things that are just hateful: calling people fat, or ugly, or even hobags that deserve to die (I'm paraphrasing here). Really, its more about the tone than the content.
it's this high-school mentality thing that I've always despised--- form cliques and try be the cool cheerleader at the top of the pile, and if you're not, sabotage her any way you can.
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