Ah, it is days like these that I am glad that I have a blog set up.
Ok, this is the story....
I'm sitting here, doing a bit of work, watching the news on Libya whilst following events on twitter. Up pops a tweet from @gracedent in which she posts ...
which, I guess, is kind of funny. The problem is, I felt that this over trivialised this whole affair. Peoples lives were changing forever & to be able to somehow relate this to a book launch seemed a bit crass. Over sensitive? Yeah, maybe, of course in fact, because in the whole scheme of things, how Grace Dent feels about Libyans & how I feel about how Grace Dent feels about Libyans is so unimportant, if there was a scale, it would not be on it. This is not what this post is about but merely the backstory. I reply...
Now, I know this is puerile, although I have noticed that to really annoy a celebrity using a hashtag that may 'knock them down a bit' always works. It makes their blood boil, as you wil see. I have to add here that I would have responded in the same way even if it was not a celeb (possibly without the #) as I was 'in the moment', watching the news roll in, concern at the events in Libya, what the future will hold for these people & for us, the developments being massive & having a global effect on freedom, war, our lives, well, everything....she replied
fine, I deserved it, I'd started the argument, Grace Dent felt, quite rightly, that she could say what she liked. The fact that she responded was only due to the hashtag. I knew it was the hashtag as she actually refers to it during the next few tweets. Anyhow, it continues...i respond
(again effective use of #) to which she says
cool, fine, probably deserve all this, although the use of the word 'cunt' for someone who considers themselves a feminist is dodgy ground. Later that evening she was to bully a model for being on the front cover of Q magazine. This bullying was thinly veiled as Grace Dent sticking up for women. All it did, in fact, was make the poor women feel like shit...nice work Gracey. (this is one of the posts she tweeted to the model, outlining her 'feminist' principles)
and another on her feminist principles, the same night, same discussion. I suppose this may matter more if you are hungry
Anyhow, I responded to
with
I think I'm being funny. Now this is where it all gets a bit weird. I receive a load of tweets from Grace Dent, all in response to the touchy? tweet.
this is where she obviously got annoyed with the hashtag thing. There is another bit where she gets annoyed with it, all the tweets I will post below, but hang on, where has this 'harassing women on the internet' thing come from? Seems a bit odd...
yup, she definitely meant it. Now that is a huge jump. I admit to being a dick. I was caught up in an event that will change the world we live in, affect how we will all live our lives. May even affect how & if we are able to use twitter. But to say that I am harassing women on the internet, well, that is not only a bit weird but downright nasty. Grace Dent accuses another tweeter of harassment immediately after me. I asked him if he was alright about it, he did not seem too fussed but to me, well, it just seems that this kind of thing is playing a horrendous card.
the hashtag thing comes up again (that's how I know I have really annoyed her with it)
Grace Dent is kind of styling herself as some kind of edgy twitter user. She has written a book about it & to be honest I had a lot of respect for her. I didn't really care about being called a dick or prick, I started the argument, but to go to the depths she went to, well, it just doesn't do, does it?
If, Grace Dent, you are fighting some cause it would be wise to choose the right targets. I'm a committed socialist, have been for years, although it's not my credentials that are up for examiination & it is not yours. This is just a story of how a woman has openly played the harassment card & i feel that it is a very sad thing to have happened. She writes for a left wing paper, the Guardian, which I have respect for, works with people I admire, was in fact someone who I felt had some kind of credibility about them. Not anymore.
So, while the rebels in Libya were tearing down statues & the Western World was rubbing its hands with glee at all the new oil on the market, I was having an argument with Grace Dent. How insignificant is that?
Ok, this is the story....
I'm sitting here, doing a bit of work, watching the news on Libya whilst following events on twitter. Up pops a tweet from @gracedent in which she posts ...
Now, I know this is puerile, although I have noticed that to really annoy a celebrity using a hashtag that may 'knock them down a bit' always works. It makes their blood boil, as you wil see. I have to add here that I would have responded in the same way even if it was not a celeb (possibly without the #) as I was 'in the moment', watching the news roll in, concern at the events in Libya, what the future will hold for these people & for us, the developments being massive & having a global effect on freedom, war, our lives, well, everything....she replied
fine, I deserved it, I'd started the argument, Grace Dent felt, quite rightly, that she could say what she liked. The fact that she responded was only due to the hashtag. I knew it was the hashtag as she actually refers to it during the next few tweets. Anyhow, it continues...i respond
and another on her feminist principles, the same night, same discussion. I suppose this may matter more if you are hungry
Anyhow, I responded to
with
I think I'm being funny. Now this is where it all gets a bit weird. I receive a load of tweets from Grace Dent, all in response to the touchy? tweet.
this is where she obviously got annoyed with the hashtag thing. There is another bit where she gets annoyed with it, all the tweets I will post below, but hang on, where has this 'harassing women on the internet' thing come from? Seems a bit odd...
yup, she definitely meant it. Now that is a huge jump. I admit to being a dick. I was caught up in an event that will change the world we live in, affect how we will all live our lives. May even affect how & if we are able to use twitter. But to say that I am harassing women on the internet, well, that is not only a bit weird but downright nasty. Grace Dent accuses another tweeter of harassment immediately after me. I asked him if he was alright about it, he did not seem too fussed but to me, well, it just seems that this kind of thing is playing a horrendous card.
the hashtag thing comes up again (that's how I know I have really annoyed her with it)
Grace Dent is kind of styling herself as some kind of edgy twitter user. She has written a book about it & to be honest I had a lot of respect for her. I didn't really care about being called a dick or prick, I started the argument, but to go to the depths she went to, well, it just doesn't do, does it?
If, Grace Dent, you are fighting some cause it would be wise to choose the right targets. I'm a committed socialist, have been for years, although it's not my credentials that are up for examiination & it is not yours. This is just a story of how a woman has openly played the harassment card & i feel that it is a very sad thing to have happened. She writes for a left wing paper, the Guardian, which I have respect for, works with people I admire, was in fact someone who I felt had some kind of credibility about them. Not anymore.
So, while the rebels in Libya were tearing down statues & the Western World was rubbing its hands with glee at all the new oil on the market, I was having an argument with Grace Dent. How insignificant is that?
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