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Jun. 10th, 2004 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodneyscatWell that's weird. It's ok for people to squee and bounce and dance around when a celebrity guy does something we really like, wears a particularly nice t-shirt, is going to be in a movie we think we may enjoy, cuddles other men suggestively or chooses to do other things that we highly approve of. But when someone points out something they don't like they get all sorts of 'he's a grown man, he can do whatever he pleases, get over it' comments.
You know, starting a community to try and convince Elijah he shouldn't smoke went a bit too far for me also, although wanking those people like they were being some major threat to Elijah was even going further around the bend. But just saying the news that Billy smokes came as a highly unpleasant shock, shouldn't be such a big deal I think. And why should someone go all subtle on that? If you can say 'OMG! Eyeliner *orgasms*', why can't you say something to the extend of 'Yuck! Cigarettes *puke*' (or even *worries*)
As far as I'm concerned I'm allowed to love Elijah's taste in music and be disgusted with the fact that he smokes.
You know, starting a community to try and convince Elijah he shouldn't smoke went a bit too far for me also, although wanking those people like they were being some major threat to Elijah was even going further around the bend. But just saying the news that Billy smokes came as a highly unpleasant shock, shouldn't be such a big deal I think. And why should someone go all subtle on that? If you can say 'OMG! Eyeliner *orgasms*', why can't you say something to the extend of 'Yuck! Cigarettes *puke*' (or even *worries*)
As far as I'm concerned I'm allowed to love Elijah's taste in music and be disgusted with the fact that he smokes.
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Date: 2004-06-10 09:31 am (UTC)I don't get the pedestal thing. I don't see any need to put them there, and I also don't see any need to lob extra bombs at them because they're supposedly on one.
Some people have a need to be catty and nasty to anyone, and think public figures are fair game for that, and I don't see the point of that. But I also don't see the point of deifying them. They're just people. They have more pressures than some of us, certainly, and a few more privileges as well, but, especially where these guys are concerned, they're not gods, nor are they trying to be seen that way. I don't see any reason to treat them with any more or less courtesy and respect you'd treat any other stranger you know a little something about. If I think it's unfortunate that a cute guy smokes or has a Bush/Cheney sticker on his car, I'm going to say so, regardless of who that cute guy is. Likewise, if I think a pair of guys walking down the street make a cute couple, I'll talk about that, too. If I were saying something mean or nasty, it'd be a different story.