You'll Never Work In This Town Again!
Like Katharine Hepburn after she bombed in Sylvia Scarlett and Joan Crawford was cast in Mildred Pierce, I'm feeling like I'm not sure of if I'm going to "work" in this town of the "blogosphere" again...
I got what's called "Instalanched" on my other blog yesterday. You have to go over there to see what happened. It was pretty upsetting at the time, esp. after I found out how the other female blogger's audience got all personal about my appearance and stuff--you know, no matter how old you are, that's *always* upsetting. And it's amazing how, with women, it always ends up resorting to that kind of personal attack.
But I got over it. In the end, I had to consider the sources--mostly non-bloggers. Their ad hominem attacks on me just show that there are a lot of folks who feel the need to never leave the mental confines of junior high.
As if I'd never heard any of the stuff they said. Although I have to say that "Jeff Gannon/Guckert in drag" and "Karl Rove's dominatrix" comments were pretty funny. If I were Karl Rove's dominatrix, I certainly wouldn't be living in my lovely ghetto walkup.
I have no idea why Glenn Reynolds did what he did. In a massively ungentlemanly gesture, he has not responded my email. Maybe he really is what most people say about him...and he likes to use others for sport. Who knows?
So, for a couple of days, I'm moderating comments. I know that if people really want to say something, it won't stop them. And most bloggers, the people who count to me, won't mind waiting for moderation. We understand this world. They don't.
But, essentially, it *does* make me feel like Hepburn and Crawford. Makes me wonder what I've done to myself...but, in another way, it really isn't what I did to myself. It's more about how people are extrememly comfortable saying incivil things when they don't have to be accountable. And that is possibly the biggest problem with social media as it is now--lack of accountability.
oh well...as long as I'm still working, I'm fine.
I got what's called "Instalanched" on my other blog yesterday. You have to go over there to see what happened. It was pretty upsetting at the time, esp. after I found out how the other female blogger's audience got all personal about my appearance and stuff--you know, no matter how old you are, that's *always* upsetting. And it's amazing how, with women, it always ends up resorting to that kind of personal attack.
But I got over it. In the end, I had to consider the sources--mostly non-bloggers. Their ad hominem attacks on me just show that there are a lot of folks who feel the need to never leave the mental confines of junior high.
As if I'd never heard any of the stuff they said. Although I have to say that "Jeff Gannon/Guckert in drag" and "Karl Rove's dominatrix" comments were pretty funny. If I were Karl Rove's dominatrix, I certainly wouldn't be living in my lovely ghetto walkup.
I have no idea why Glenn Reynolds did what he did. In a massively ungentlemanly gesture, he has not responded my email. Maybe he really is what most people say about him...and he likes to use others for sport. Who knows?
So, for a couple of days, I'm moderating comments. I know that if people really want to say something, it won't stop them. And most bloggers, the people who count to me, won't mind waiting for moderation. We understand this world. They don't.
But, essentially, it *does* make me feel like Hepburn and Crawford. Makes me wonder what I've done to myself...but, in another way, it really isn't what I did to myself. It's more about how people are extrememly comfortable saying incivil things when they don't have to be accountable. And that is possibly the biggest problem with social media as it is now--lack of accountability.
oh well...as long as I'm still working, I'm fine.
posted by Tish Grier at 3:53 PM
1 Comments:
wow... your shitstorm sounds eerily familiar :) Glad you haven't thrown in the towel with all of that nastiness. I'm with you on the annonymous commentors bit too. Drives me crazy!
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