MentalDisabldLst said:Well, my take is this: Britt McHenry is likely an asshole. But that's not, in and of itself, very remarkable. There are tons of assholes, and we all need to deal with them. That the asshole in question is both ever-so-slightly a public figure, and also super hot, makes it mildly interesting.
What's remarkable here is the sheer degree to which towing companies operate in the realm of the corrupt and, likely, illegal. Many of us have been towed before. The one time it happened to me, I deserved it, but luckily had to deal with a city tow lot that was on the up-and-up. The fees were outrageous, but there's a deterrent effect there - I get it. But I've seen stories and videos of tow-company people conspiring with the service staff at suburban businesses to basically either boot or tow peoples' cars even when there's no signage that would suggest this was a remote possibility. Even when the car in question belongs to a customer doing business at the lot owner's store. Even during business hours. No violation has been committed, but they boot or tow it anyway. They have your car, they're not letting it go unless you pay them tribute, and after the fact, you're not going to care enough to sue or go after them. It's the perfect setup for a protection racket, no different than 3rd-world minor officials taking bribes to facilitate their ordinary duties, and it's just as infuriating.
Britt McHenry is a poor choice to rail against this flaming injustice, obviously, but that's nevertheless the cause that gets me all hot and riled up. Not her tits, fine as they may be. To the extent that she can bring light to and shame this company - and may have a personal reputational reason to do so, or even just out of spite - I say, god bless.
drleather2001 said:
A) Person acts like a rip-roaring asshole;
B) Different person puts behavior in A on the internet.
B doesn't excuse A, even if it's asshole behavior in its own right. And if it takes the threat of people finding out what an asshole you are to make you worried about being an asshole: look out, you're an asshole.
BroodsSexton said:Are you David Brooks? I just realized you sound a lot like him.
MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:
This is one of the great arguments in the privacy debate: Do people need the space to be an asshole in relative obscurity so as to grow as people and not have a single instance of being an asshole come to define them because of the ubiquity of the internet?
If you're a good person 99 percent of the time, but in a moment of weakness or frustration, become an asshole, is it fair that the rest of the world be introduced to you as an asshole?
Further, if the threat of constant surveillance makes you less likely to be an asshole, what else does it make you less likely to be? Silly? Intimate? Vulnerable?
With cameras looming everywhere, all of the rough edges of human behavior begin to be sanded off. Personally, I'd rather absorb a few assholes and keep the other rough edges than have assholism wiped off the face of the earth by public shaming and get a bunch of automatons along with it.
Ronson’s new book, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” digs into a strange phenomenon of the participatory Internet. From time to time, it seems as if every user of social media rises up as one to denounce, shame and remove an apparently deserving victim. The first few times Ronson witnessed this, he was intrigued — even exhilarated. “When we deployed shame, we were utilizing an immensely powerful tool,” he writes of his initial reaction: “The silenced were getting a voice. It was like the democratization of justice.” Or was it? His view turned gradually darker.
When I stopped reading after bikini and missed the less part.Blacken said:Yeah, because the ESPN personality is going to be posting nudes to Instagram. I went to illegal hacking because that's where they'd be coming from.
When did you decide that caping up for leering shitbags was a good way to go?
Meh, this is one of my favorite parts about sports. You generally know nothing about the person and look for superficial means to make fun of someone to get in their head. Pretty good feeling when you know you won that battle and got them off their game. Less good feeling when you are the one getting thrown off your game. Best feeling is when they get thrown off by you not getting thrown off.Flunky said:I empathize with this woman not because she's hot, but because I am also a bit of a sociopath that will target someone's superficial weaknesses and turn them into an insult. Not over cheese on a burger, but probably something like getting my car out of impound if I feel I am being demeaned. It's not a trait I am proud of. I have gone there, it doesn't feel great afterward.
Now that the company has said they don't want her fired they were just trying to promote "awareness", I am more firmly on her side. I think they realized there's not a whole lot to gain from this monetarily because aside from people who are required to take the high road (media members), the general reaction to this has been to quickly descend into a shared hatred of towing companies and how they run their businesses.
The author was on WTF with Maron and it was a good listen.Spelunker said:
There's a book that just came out, So You've Been Publicly Shamed that examines the virtual lynch mob effect that is an unintended consequence of all-encompassing transparency. Pull quote, from the NY Times article about it:
NPR had a good piece on it a few weeks ago. I've been meaning to read it.
Montana Fan said:This site has become pretty much UFB. Bleedred's comment should have been skipped as inane but instead the Righteous Brothers must attack him in an effort to show how great they are. This section of the site is just short of Sinaville when it comes to the daily "make myself feel superior" trashing of whatever inane/dumb sentence Peter King, CHB or whomever wrote the previous evening.
Montana Fan said:This site has become pretty much UFB. Bleedred's comment should have been skipped as inane but instead the Righteous Brothers must attack him in an effort to show how great they are. This section of the site is just short of Sinaville when it comes to the daily "make myself feel superior" trashing of whatever inane/dumb sentence Peter King, CHB or whomever wrote the previous evening.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:
No way. It's fun acting like a supercilious cunt to everyone.
There are people on this site who have the same overriding concerns about misogyny, but realize that picking a fight at every single opportunity does more harm than good.
Than there are the cunts.
Montana Fan said:This site has become pretty much UFB. Bleedred's comment should have been skipped as inane but instead the Righteous Brothers must attack him in an effort to show how great they are. This section of the site is just short of Sinaville when it comes to the daily "make myself feel superior" trashing of whatever inane/dumb sentence Peter King, CHB or whomever wrote the previous evening.
Don't recalibrate. You got it.OilCanShotTupac said:
sarcasm detector. . . Recalibrating. . .
OilCanShotTupac said:
sarcasm detector. . . Recalibrating. . .
Swing and a miss.SydneySox said:
Kenny has accepted he is not well liked on this site.
What he hasn't accepted is that it's his fault and not, as MontanaFan might argue, the failings of others.
He's in his 'acting out' stage at the moment where he shows how much he does not care by talking about how much he doesn't care. If he was an emoji, it would be that of a person on the internet wearing sunglasses indoors smoking a clove cigarette.
Wow....I had no idea that my throw-away post caused such a brouhaha and branded me a mysoginist. Now I'm a mouth-breathing creepy fuck going for.....____________? I'm not even sure what you are intimating, but for clarity's sake, let me just say that I assumed that there were public images of her (much like jenny middlebrooks) that would be posted and ogled. If that makes me mouth-breathing creepy fuck, then guilty as charged I guess. What I was surely not going for was some sort of advocacy of hacking into private materials for public posting and shaming. If that's what you took from the post, then you got it wrong.Blacken said:
Nobody at ESPN is publicizing nudes. That's what that mouth-breathing creepy fuck was going at, not ooooo bikini pictures ooooo. You know it, I know it, he definitely knows it because he thinks that the culture here is such that he can say that and get virtual fistbumps for it. So why are you pretending otherwise?
When writing it I should have realized that expounding on one aspect of the wrongness of that post would draw out the a segment of SoSH that thinks bro-culture misogyny is cool--and you are right the fuck on time, I compliment your punctuality if not your ability to not fundamentally suck at being a people--but this cape-up is weak sauce.
You're tedious and boring.SydneySox said:I mean, I doubt I'm your favourite 'bully'. Many more people than me call you out, daily. I would have thought one of those posters would have been your idol first seeing as they take you apart so often. Then again, I appreciate if you're saying you're drawn to quality over quantity.
When you get to the next phase of your existensialist crisis you should re-examine this thread and your contributions to it; your attempts at subversise satire are immediately undercut only half a dozen posts later when, getting the attention you were after, you immediately fall back to 'stop bullying me!'
I've already documented a healthy portion of your key interests. I'm ok with that.SydneySox said:You're not my favourite anything btw, in case you're trying to curry some sort of reciprocal thing.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:Well, if you're just going to post unfunny shit, I guess this has run its course. Catch you in another thread where you try to talk over everyone else!
Bullying and stalking? I don't think the women's rights movement wants you leading their charge.SydneySox said:
I can still see you in this thread you liar.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:Bullying and stalking? I don't think the women's rights movement wants you leading their charge.
Oh. Because I'm a man! Got it!SydneySox said:
To get back to the point - what you think about who should be in charge of women's rights is irrelevant. One day you will understand that. Maybe.
I doubt it, based on everything you have ever written.
SydneySox said:
To get back to the point - what you think about who should be in charge of women's rights is irrelevant. One day you will understand that. Maybe.
I doubt it, based on everything you have ever written.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:Oh. Because I'm a man! Got it!
You suck. Threads yours, you fucking donk.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:Swing and a miss.
You're my favorite internet bully. Can you go back to the Curt Schilling thread and bully people that disagree with you about internet bullying again? That was super rad!
Thankfully you're here to enlighten us in your free time between your movie marathons, comic book binges, and video game benders. Keep doing gods work. He (or she!) thanks you for it.
Judge Mental13 said:So wait, is Kenny the tow yard clerk and Sydney is McHenry or do I have it backwards
I wouldn't know. I spent a few weeks doing some menial things over there to help them get off the ground. I have little to do with their success. Maybe the leather jackets play a larger part? I dunno.JohntheBaptist said:
I hear over at SoSh Football Central everyone involved wears leather jackets and smokes cigarettes out in public like they don't care who knows it. So this insult, posted by someone with over 6,000 posts on an internet baseball message board, isn't as blindingly pathetic as it might first seem.
drleather2001 said:You know, I kind of liked clove cigarettes for the first 5 puffs.
glennhoffmania said:
In high school I found them somewhat interesting. Now they make me feel a tad sick.
This thread took a serious and unexpected detour.
johnmd20 said:
Sydney is both the clerk and McHenry. Kenny is the camera.
SydneySox said:At least you got Kull to back you up.
Good old Kull.
SydneySox said:
Kenny has accepted he is not well liked on this site.
What he hasn't accepted is that it's his fault and not, as MontanaFan might argue, the failings of others.
He's in his 'acting out' stage at the moment where he shows how much he does not care by talking about how much he doesn't care. If he was an emoji, it would be that of a person on the internet wearing sunglasses indoors smoking a clove cigarette.
NopeSydneySox said:
That's the second time you've also said you're abandoning the thread. Do we get to be lucky and see if we can avoid a third time?
Kenny F'ing Powers said:
I wasn't sure if I'd be able to recognize insecurity when it poured off my screen, but I surprised myself.
SydneySox said:You're not my favourite anything btw, in case you're trying to curry some sort of reciprocal thing.
The Napkin said:
That's not a computer screen. It's a mirror.
SydneySox said:At least you got Kull to back you up.
Good old Kull.