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I'd started out writing an Online Skeezballs post, and it turned into a rant about bullies. I had planned to keep updating it as the bully added more stuff, but it's really not written to accommodate additions well, so I'm starting a new post about it. Here is the exchange:
I originally made a tweet complaining about poly people going to poly events, and then saying "I was hoping to meet someone, but everyone there was already partnered". I don't want to debate this tweet here, this is part of a larger issue that the 140 character limitation of Twitter necessarily truncates & requires incomplete, generalized, and/or soundbitey statements and is not the point of what happened next.
So I made that tweet and @isayshizzz responded "sounds like you've never heard of polyfi"
So I said "sounds like you've never heard of Twitter, where things have to be summarized in 140 characters"
So they said "I hear you're fat, old, ugly and hide behind the internet"
To which I said "wow, you're an ass"
And they said "not as much as you, claiming to be an ally for poly people but you do more harm#cunt"
At which point, I blocked them. But then others came to my defense (much more politely than even I was here), and here is what @isayshizzz to that: "are u all fucking the old hag or what? This is why she's a cunt, she gets others to be cunty for her. Eat my asshole"
Now, if you go to their twitter feed, every single response having to do with me has been deleted, which is why I'm actually missing a bunch of them, including insinuations that this person, whom I've never met, "knows" me and thinks my "behaviour" (but not my tweets) is "harmful" to the poly community. So I've started retweeting their tweets when I see them, now that I know they will conveniently delete them after they've had a chance to piss off whomever they're attacking.
Thurs, Sept. 20
There is a journalist on Twitter looking for poly people to interview. @Modernpoly recommends contacting me because of the Poly Media Association. @isayshizzz says: "Don't contact @Joreth, she'll only send you losers. Don't listen to @modernpoly she's bipolar"
Sun., Oct. 14
"Please explain to me why so many polyamorous people are fat and old? Never going to a meet up again #gross #traumatized" link
"@OpenXiminez @Joreth @Datan0de bet ur all fat and old #amirite" link
"The polyamory show on showtime is deceiving, there are no good looking young people in poly, aside from my lovers. Were they actors??? WTF" link
"@Datan0de @OpenXiminez @Joreth shallowness makes the world go round fattie" link
I originally made a tweet complaining about poly people going to poly events, and then saying "I was hoping to meet someone, but everyone there was already partnered". I don't want to debate this tweet here, this is part of a larger issue that the 140 character limitation of Twitter necessarily truncates & requires incomplete, generalized, and/or soundbitey statements and is not the point of what happened next.
So I made that tweet and @isayshizzz responded "sounds like you've never heard of polyfi"
So I said "sounds like you've never heard of Twitter, where things have to be summarized in 140 characters"
So they said "I hear you're fat, old, ugly and hide behind the internet"
To which I said "wow, you're an ass"
And they said "not as much as you, claiming to be an ally for poly people but you do more harm#cunt"
At which point, I blocked them. But then others came to my defense (much more politely than even I was here), and here is what @isayshizzz to that: "are u all fucking the old hag or what? This is why she's a cunt, she gets others to be cunty for her. Eat my asshole"
Now, if you go to their twitter feed, every single response having to do with me has been deleted, which is why I'm actually missing a bunch of them, including insinuations that this person, whom I've never met, "knows" me and thinks my "behaviour" (but not my tweets) is "harmful" to the poly community. So I've started retweeting their tweets when I see them, now that I know they will conveniently delete them after they've had a chance to piss off whomever they're attacking.
Thurs, Sept. 20
There is a journalist on Twitter looking for poly people to interview. @Modernpoly recommends contacting me because of the Poly Media Association. @isayshizzz says: "Don't contact @Joreth, she'll only send you losers. Don't listen to @modernpoly she's bipolar"
Sun., Oct. 14
"Please explain to me why so many polyamorous people are fat and old? Never going to a meet up again #gross #traumatized" link
"@OpenXiminez @Joreth @Datan0de bet ur all fat and old #amirite" link
"The polyamory show on showtime is deceiving, there are no good looking young people in poly, aside from my lovers. Were they actors??? WTF" link
"@Datan0de @OpenXiminez @Joreth shallowness makes the world go round fattie" link
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Date: 9/20/12 07:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 9/20/12 11:04 pm (UTC)From:Then again, I didn't actually click on #cunt to see if anyone else had something to say about it, and if it was a thing. I guess I figured that I probably really didn't want to know.
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Date: 9/21/12 12:25 am (UTC)From:Public Ximinez @OpenXiminez
@Joreth Seems to me that along with "troll", "petulant child", and "misogynist", we need to add "coward". Grow up, @isayshizzz
alexandra the great @isayshizzz
@OpenXiminez @Joreth eat my hairy asshole pigfuck
10:28 PM - 16 Sep 12
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Date: 9/28/12 12:57 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 9/28/12 01:39 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 10/15/12 04:00 pm (UTC)From:Wow...
Date: 10/10/12 08:52 pm (UTC)From:I have seen them make sexist, racist, fat-hating comments to those who don't agree with their views, or who make potentially offensive statements about polyamory
They seriously need to stop trolling the #polyamory tag on Twitter.
Re: Wow...
Date: 10/11/12 11:08 pm (UTC)From:They are a hateful, bigoted, downright unpleasant person who, for some bizarre reason, feels the need to call out everyone else for "harming the poly community". It's people like that who make me almost wish I could take away their "poly badge" in spite of my general distaste for the idea of any individual getting to decide who is "allowed" to use the label "poly".
I haven't seen the whole series yet, but I did watch the first episode, and I have to say that, although it's much better than I was expecting (given Natalie's (the casting director) attitude when she first approached PMA for respondents), I was left with a sour taste from the people chosen to represent us in this first major media coverage. I also haven't read your reviews yet, but I plan to!
Re: Wow...
Date: 10/12/12 12:12 am (UTC)From:Re: Wow...
Date: 10/12/12 11:21 pm (UTC)From:I should also point out that she deliberately kept from us the name of the network and the project that she was working on, so even when I warned about her, nobody knew she was from Showtime until this second season casting call, with which she is now proudly associating herself.