There is a reason I eschew Twitter. This story sums it up nicely.
The Scottish Conservatives leader, Ruth Davidson, has raised eyebrows by posting a picture of the actor Gillian Anderson in lingerie on social media.
Davidson, 38, posted the image of the X-Files star on Twitter before going on holiday for two weeks:
Inevitably, there is a twitter storm; that manifestation of modern inanity and vacuousness, as the hard of thinking leap to their keyboards to spew their 140 characters of bile, spite and lack of proportion.
The reaction of any rational person to all of this is to remind these cretins to lighten up. Was anyone hurt? No. But offence… Oh, my, someone, somewhere might be offended because Davidson was objectifying Anderson.
Mike Logan commenting on this story BTL in the Mail sums up the Twitter mob very nicely:
an angry twitter mob = a gang of overly opinionated self absorbed half wits who’s thoughts are of no value
Indeed. And that is why I have nothing to do with it. I’d probably end up getting banned anyway.
What all these twitter twas forget is that Ms Anderson, in posing publicly in said lingerie, ‘objectified’ herself in the first place. No harm, no foul, nothing to see here.
Oh, I don’t know. I might have to examine these pictures for myself. In the interests of propriety, of course.
+1 Me too.
The hilarious thing about twitter is the way people ally themselves with “slebs” and think they have made new friend who then must defended come what may. I admit I am on twitter — yes, I am that vacuous — and I once remarked that the much-adored (though not by me) Ricky Gervais was dead against all religions and would lambast them all equally, with one notable exception. I leave you to guess which one I was led to believe Mr Gervais thought not worth commenting on, or perhaps he didn’t want trouble. Who knows?
Anyway, the Gervais fan club stormed in. Not only was I sent angry short missives about my lack of love for the man but these people even sent copies of their tweets to Mr Gervais himself. Possibly this was to show the man they thought great could see he had loyal followers and would love them back even more. I dunno. I don’t think however Mr Gervais bothered to weigh in among them, but perhaps he didn’t want trouble. Who knows?