Friday, May 2, 2014

"...It Can't Possibly Be A Conicidence That You Can't Have "Twitter" without "Twit"......

English teachers, please to forgive.

A complex societal manifestation with myriad causes and effects resulting from the intricacies of both the human mind and spirit, this issue ain't.

It's 'bout as simple as it gets.

Explanation follows shortly.



Sarah Jessica Parker is addressing her recent mysterious feud that unfolded last month on Twitter.

The war of tweets were exchanged when a female user questioned Parker's "children and their provenance." Specifically, SJP's daughters, 4-year-old twins Marion and Tabitha, who were carried via surrogate.

"I don't think you can be like that without thinking about what you are saying," the 49-year-old actress tells The Edit. "Other people can be mean, and that's something I just have to make peace with. That was my worry before engaging in social media; I was afraid of it. I see mean stuff every day: when I look at Twitter I scroll with one eye open and one closed. That particular day, it was just one of the things I saw.

"I kept scrolling and then I was like, 'Wait a minute, did she just say that?'" Parker continues about the "disgusting" tweet. "I went back and I thought, ‘Well, this isn't unhealthy paranoia, this is absolutely conscious. This was a choice.' She, not subtly at all, said that my children are not my children. There have been a few — let's say half a dozen — times in my career when I have wanted to respond. I don't want to encourage people picking on her, because that's no better. But I wrote back, 'What? Like, is this fun?' She never responded and deleted it."

Parker took the situation one step further to condemn women on women bashing.

"I can't stand [it] when women say unfriendly things to other women," she explains. "Why does it have to be like that? Why do we go from [I disagree with you] to I hate you, I attack you, I use words that I know are hurtful? And we've never met! You'd think at this point in my life I would be accustomed [to it], but we keep finding new ways of expressing ourselves, new outlets to be unfriendly and cruel."

The "Sex and the City" star isn't the only actress to let cruel haters get to her.

Last month, Minnie Driver announced she was taking a break from Twitter after receiving mean comments about her bikini body.

"God some people are horrible," she tweeted. "You try being photographed when you don't know it's happening, when you're on holiday with your kids."

Driver continued, "I'm out of this Twittersphere for a while. It's too mean sometimes, about your body , about your soul. Not worth it."

Jennifer Love Hewitt also took a break from the social networking site last summer.

"Unfortunately with all the negativity people choose to send on Twitter as well as threats to their own well being, I'm sad to say Twitter is no longer for me," she wrote in July 2013. "I have enjoyed all the kindness and love that came my way, as well as support. But this break is needed."

Some female stars, like Jennifer Lawrence, stay away from social networking altogether.

"It's kind of become funny to make fun of each other, and I also don't like other women slaughtering women," the "American Hustle" star said on "Good Morning America" in November 2013. "And all of us are just being so mean. We're so responsible for this younger generation, and media, it's what kids are watching. It's teaching people how to talk to each other and relate to each other. I don't like it. Why can't we just be nice? It's like we grow up and then get right back into high school."

Thanks a lot, haters… J.Law might have joined Twitter if it wasn't for you!



Sociologists, human behavioral specialists, pundits, prognosticators, analysts and "Barbie dolls" from both MSNBC and Fox News and not just a few Cliff Clavin wannabes will, no doubt, delight in dissecting this matter until it makes finely minced onions look like pineapple chunks.

As offered at the outset, though, it ain't brain surgery.

Nice people in the world.

Mean people in the world.

Up until, say, ten years ago, mean people could only find ways to inflict their venom and vitriol on people in a desperate attempt to compensate for a miserable life and/or hilariously miniscule penis size by doling it out via the horse and buggy era methodology of behind the back/backbiting gossip in and around the local watering hole, coffee klatch, backyard fence, office water cooler and/or snack break at the monthly PTA meeting.

Today, mean people can boot up, log on, log in and fling their shit like they were born to be primates.

And delight as their venom goes viral.

I suppose it's inevitable that we would like to believe that all of it is some deeply rooted, psychological/sociological phenomenon requiring years of research, examination and/or study.

But its not.

It's just mean people.

Having discovered a high tech way to be assholes.

Globally.

In 140 characters or less.


 


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