Gotta say I agree with George, not in tone perhaps, but in principle. If a Star Trek fan dies choking on a chicken wing do we have to have a month of respect for Star Trek fans in remembrance?
Not wanting to prolong this, but if a Star Trek fan dies choking, you are
not going to see people on the internet make cracks like "He neither lived long or prospered" or "One less crazy Trek fan in the world." This is the sort of "joking" that was taking place following the Twi-fan's death, with people practically rejoicing that she was gone, acting as though she deserved to be gone simply because she was a fan of something they didn't like.
Twi-hate has reached such a cartoonish purportion on the internet and elsewhere right now that it's become not just a form of bullying, but ugly, ugly bullying. The level of nastiness towards the fanbase is hard to believe, and sinces it largely consists of women, that makes it even worse. And it's not just towards the fans. The cast is also subject to it. There is no reason that Kristen Stewart, regardless of what she may have done, to be treated this savagely by the press and the internet when she's
only 22 years old. If that were to happen to anyone but her, people would call it disgusting.
So maybe I shouldn't have reacted that way to George's post, or at least not in that way. But when I see people make apparently sincere internet comments saying things along the lines of "If only the Aurora shooting had happened at a Twilight screening instead. Why did it have to happen to GOOD fans?", maybe that makes me a little sensitive about this sort of thing.
But anyway...I'll get off my soapbox. I'm sorry if I sent this topic into a direction that it shouldn't go. I just want people to know why I said what I did.
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift--that is why it's called the present."
