Holier than thou

Mixing trolls, trialwatchers, and regular people all up into the same soup, that is the problem. Why is it that anyone who disagrees with the Meanie club is thrown into the same category? Today we are "Spanky's gang" hanging around "Meanie's office." Since when is the internet Meanie's office? 
 

We are all Kelly!

Oh-tay. I would be insulted except oh gee, according to you, I don't get your references since I am from a trailer park, I am uneducated, and I cannot live up to the intellectual standards of the "reader base" on your bully blog. Are you serious? Trailer park? Really? From the start, I was just trying to stand up for an underdog who I felt was being bullied by a bunch of mean girls with nothing better to do. But now I am beginning to take it all rather personally. What is wrong with you Meanie? Don't you strive to be a "professional journalist" and "reporter"? Why do you continue to surround yourself with people who demonstrate such a lack of moral character? As for those "people", I won't even bother, as arguments just go in one ear and out their ass. Yeah, if you didn't notice, I decided this is my blog afterall, and I can say ass if I want to.

You see, I really don't like confrontation. At all. Usually in my day to day life I completely avoid confrontation of any kind at all costs. I was just a trial watcher, who stumbled across some ladies with an exaggerated opinion of their own importance. I am just a mom, who happens to have an amazing little family, and an otherwise happy existence. But you meanies got me all worked up. My husband thought he had enough worries when I was all upset about jodiarias. Whodathunk I would have ended up here on my soapbox? Not me. He teases me now every time I have something to say, whether it's about the bills or the laundry or the neighbor's dog knocking over the garbage, saying "why don't you write a blog about it?" My little boy is proud of me "are you writing another article mom?" for standing up to a bunch of meanies. My life is good without the bs. But I just can't help myself.

Understand that now, Meanie, it's not just the trolls or jodiarias supporters like SW or GB or whatever who are resenting you,  but it is also your former readers and fans. I'm fairly certain you will have a snappy comeback to let me know you don't want readers like me anyway. Don't they do seminars on sensitivity training or something like that at the Examiner? I know you don't care what I think, but I would highly suggest you give it a go. Not too long ago I enjoyed your articles, just like I enjoy reading RBMD, the 13thJuror, Jen'sTrialDiaries, CourtChatter, and lots more. No matter how not-a-real-journalist your articles are, it was always interesting to have another perspective.  Regardless of your credentials or not-credentials, I still enjoyed reading you very much, if only to have a summary of the week's events and hear your thoughts, and to browse through the thoughts of other readers in the comments. Now I have found that I, a trial watcher, a mom, a person with an MBA and experience living and working abroad, am so turned off by your holier-than-thou attitude and the utter caca that happens in the comments of your articles. It is seriously spiraling out of control. Haven't you noticed?

As a reader or Disqus user, unless you have passed rush week with the dingbats running the show over on Meanie's comments pages, you might as well give up trying to have a worthwhile discussion about anything. If you are not part of the lovie-dovie "you tell 'em gf" you-kiss-my-ass-i'll-kiss-yours club, you might as well forget it. It left me discouraged with the human race and inspired me to publish my opinion here. 

I just hope for people to think for themselves instead of jumping on a lynch mob bandwagon. I would like for people to reconsider how they interact with and treat other people on Twitter and online in general. Say what you want, and justify all you want, rbmbs is nothing but a bully blog intended to hurt somebody. I don't believe the self-proclaimed innocent "just for fun" noble intentions any more than I believed Meanie's noble intentions when she wrote her catfish article. 

This small group of angry friends has taken me back many years to highschool hallways where I was too intimidated to stand up for myself or others, or say what I thought and stand up for what is right. Kindness is right. Empathy is right. Forgiveness is right. Relentless hateful propoganda about another person is NOT RIGHT*. So I will keep saying it as long as you keep saying otherwise. I've seen much talk of "hiding behind aliases" and "chickenshit  anonymity" which I find quite hypocritical, considering that I am arguing with a "Wife" and a "Tie". Yeah, enough with "Bunny" and "Meanie's hat". It is what it is. 

*(disclaimer: unless that person is a convicted murderer!)

Why would a "journalist" associate herself so closely with such a trashy blog? The obvious is obvious, because these people praise Meanie, and make her feel important. Meanie likes to feel important. What about professional courtesy to your audience? To the public? To readers everywhere? If your intention was to insult us, you have succeeded. I have said it before and I'll say it again, no one can expect to be friends with everyone on the internet; but if you are a professional in a public forum, when you start insulting and judging your readers and people that you do not know, you are digging yourself into a hole.

The nannynannybooboos have continued on Twitter, same old boring insults, though not directly to me. And now they are deflecting, calling me and others bullies for calling them out as bullies. For the record, I never called anyone a whore. I do not know who did or where. Never in my life did I call anyone a whore. I do openly admit that I referred to Bunny as a DrunkenHousewife in a tweet yesterday - though my purpose was not namecalling, it was to hint readers to her "real name" that has something to do with Martinis and something to do with being a Wife.

So, as for Kelly, RBMD, who has already been royally thrown under the bus - I am not her. I am also not a troll. I am also not SW or joesantos or O Hai or any of those nasty buggers on anybody's comments pages. If I make comments anywhere I use my name, and I do not sneak in any jabs. That is not me. I do not threaten people. I am appalled at some of the horrific and sometimes scary things I see people saying out there. I don't know why the meanie club still thinks everybody is the same person with bunch of aliases. Tinfoil hat, anyone? If that subject interests you, just check out my last blog post, "One step forward two steps back" for a few zillion examples.

I am a real person (no, I will not send you documentation for that!)

I enjoy Twitter and all the interesting discussions we have, and all of the funny, talented, and smart folks that I have met online in the course of this trial seeking JUSTICEFORTRAVISALEXANDER.  What I find disgusting is that hideous blog, where some people have made a hobby out of being pointedly, relentlessly and regularly mean. We can talk definitions of "parody" and "bully" all day long, but rbmbs is intentionally and determinedly cruel. I have previously acknowledged the fact that whatever may have happened may have hurt people, but this persistent viciousness cannot be justified. No matter what you say, or what Kelly did or didn't do to you, your endless mockery IS bullying. And the icing on the cake is that the "journalist" who broke this story, this story that stinks of a personal grudge, that no real reporter would touch with a 10-foot pole, is not only allowing the bullying, but encouraging it.