SpaceBallz wrote:I don't thinks he can handle social media, maybe when she was just on SNL. But if you partake in a major motion film (one that's been criticized since day one) you know your gonna get nasty messages, especially on twitter. She appeared to be VERY sensitive after the trailer hit and bombed, when she tweeted out "I'm a Ghostbuster bitches!!" to the haters, I tweeted her that maybe she should watch her public persona language since children would be looking up to her. She blocked me LOL. And I'm not sure how much truth there was to fashion designers "refusing" to help her find a dress for the GB premiere or if it was another loud fit.
Aside from that, that doesn't excuse the racists.
Absolutely. Social media is a cesspool of mean people (especially Twitter, like you said). When you're in the public spotlight you open yourself up to criticism and ridicule. Especially when you are an active member on Twitter, where everyone and anyone is accessable to everyone and anyone.
I said it earlier on another forum, but go check out Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton's twitters and you'll see an endless barrage of hatred, ridicule, and just plain old MEAN stuff. It doesn't make it right, nor am I trying to have a pissing contest, but this stuff happens to an extreme extent for a lot of people in the public eye. The more famous you are, the more people are going to send you hate and most of them are doing it just to get a reaction.
The true solution to these problems is a rather simple one, the block button. OR, an even easier and much more effective solution - DON'T GO ON TWITTER!!! We have existed for hundreds of years without something as empty and vapid as twitter. Go outside, talk to some trees, interact with people face to face, go to a library, look at the stars from your roof.
Also, kinda more to the point, Leslie had a history of making racist comments on her account. Don't give me that line of "black people can't be racist" or "those were just jokes". Racism is racism regardless of intent. Racism is (according to wikipedia) - "
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races." Based on this definition, look at her tweets (and no, not the obviously photoshoped ones) and tell me with a straight face that her comments were not racist or couldn't be construed as racist.
I just can't get over the fact that a STAND UP COMEDIAN who I guarantee has dealt with her fair share of hecklers, has such a thin skin. As someone who has begun the hobby of stand up I've had people say some really F'd up things to me, call me names, tell me I suck, make fun of my voice, make fun of my haircut, make fun of my cloths, make fun of my tattoos, tell me I need to "hit the gym". I even had one guy threaten to beat me up in the parking lot because he didn't like my joke about vegans. It's part of the goddamned territory, and I gladly accept that.
Mind boggling indeed.
"Doctor... Venkman. The purpose of science is to serve mankind. You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge... or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman!" - Dean Yeager
"No, no, no. You are a talking monkey on a spinning ball, floating through infinity. You f*ckhead" - Joe Rogan