Officially Not Funny.

[dreadedcandiru2]

As we know, Lynn has gotten into the habit of annotating her strips so as to explain what she thinks about things. What we usually get is a non-sequitur which reveals that Lynn is a very odd woman who believes that those around her have the ability to see inside her head as well as a fairly nasty person who seems to live to nurse decades old grudges. The notes attached to one of her more recent entries spell out quite clearly that she does, in fact, use the strip to settle old scores and complain about those around her. This would be bad enough in and of itself if she did not also take pleasure in admitting that up until now, she’d denied that she was doing that when asked. The problem, as I see it, is that Kool-Aid Nation might actually be okay with this. Up until now, all she had to do was to bleat “It’s just a comic strip” and those of us who try to inject common sense into the conversation were told to stop picking on her. What tells me that they’ll love it that she uses her strip to bludgeon people over the head because they irked a prickly, vindictive pain in the neck is that they’ll decide that it’s her job to use her strip to bleat about how simply awful her husband and children are. Will they stop to consider the need of the people she slams to not be slammed? Not as such, I don’t think. After all, they deny our right to criticize her because we don’t have public forums to beat people up with impunity.

Comments

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

'White trash' comes to mind when I think of airing your dirty laundry because you're butthurt. It shows an appalling lack of manners and it's gauche, petty, rude, undignified, and immature. God knows I'm tempted to pull crap like that at times, but I usually opt to take the high road and keep my mouth shut. The times I haven't, I've generally regretted it.

A few weeks ago, I stopped following a fan group for Tom Hiddleston on Twitter because, for the second time in a month, the chick running the group was going on about how someone else had been mean to her. I suggested strongly that she keep the drama off-stage because Hiddles follows the group and does he really need to be seeing all that? She told me she wasn't going to change who she was and I could either support her or leave. It wasn't a hard choice to make. Seriously, if I wanted to deal with melodrama and "OMG! She is, like, totally crazy and soooo mean!", I'd make arrangements to visit the high school up the road from me. I don't know if the person running that group is a teenager or not, but I'd definitely peg her as being in HS from the way she acts.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

The fact that alleged adults see no problem with Lynn using her strip as a means of settling scores tells me that the people who say that it's only a comic strip when we point out things that should make them feel uncomfortable are superannuated teenagers in their own right or people with a hyperdeveloped mother-hen instinct asking us to not scream at their messed-up child.

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

People who otherwise seem to have sense will say, "Oh, it's just a book" when an author pulls that kind of thing, or if there's a bad/dangerous attitude that's not treated as bad/dangerous. My guess is that it's not a big deal to them because they don't take what's there seriously, so they don't see why anyone else would/should. *shrugs*

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

The problem is that they forget something very important when they do that. (http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-dont-realize-movies-are-controlling-your-brain/) They forget that stories are how people figure out the world and they forget that everyone has an agenda. Simply because the message is one that they dismiss doesn't mean that others won't emulate what they see or be validated by Pattersnarfing and quitting motherhood.

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

I wasn't defending the way they think at all. That kind of thinking makes me want to scream and bash my head against the wall until the pain stops because of how very, very wrong it is, and the Cracked article does a great job explaining why.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

Besides, it's an appeal to worse problems. Even if they were to admit intellectually that Lynn is a horrible person, there's so much worse going on that we're nuts for wanting to call it to their attention.

[hoppytoad79.livejournal.com]

As long as no one gets their hopes up about actually getting through to the KAN.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

Of course not. Even if they admit that they don't like some of the things that they see, the idea of saying so isn't "nice".