I don't have time ATM for a long reply - nor do I want to get into a mouth-foaming rant! - but the simple answer is that that's what an awfully huge number of HomSap are made of :-( Those hate-sites are examples of petty child-hate, and petty child-hate seems to be the groundstate of most children, and with the advent of the Glass Teat (Harlan E's old name for telly) and post-Benjamin-Spock passive childrearing it appears that far, far too many of those nasty little creeps children grow up without ever learning even the simplest of manners and consideration. One could run a lot of doctoral theses on the solipsistic/sociopathic nature of the Western Me Me Me generations. Grrr arrgh. Does any of this make sense to you?
Nasty sniping at actors, community leaders, etc. has always been publicly accepted; it's just that it used to be the province of the gossip columns, and those had to be careful about what they printed for legal reasons! - but now that Teh Interweb is open to every toxic little dweeb with a net connection, the gloves are off. And it sucks.
As you know, I've never understood the mentality that confuses artists with their work. I can't ever imagine thinking of Viggo Mortensen in RL as being anything like Aragorn, f'rinstance. I don't have the slightest interest in wondering whether or not Amber Benson shags women when she's not doing Tara. I had a major soft spot for Chekhov on the old Enterprise, and I utterly detested Bester on B5, but I've never related either character to Walter Koenig, the actor who played them...and I can't get my brain around the concept of anyone else not realising that there...is...a...difference, dammit!
There's a lot more that can be said, but not now. BTW I'm not immune to the occasional fantasy, you know: "Put the claws on again, Hugh, and come over here..." :P
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2005-04-11 07:40 pm (UTC)nasty little creepschildren grow up without ever learning even the simplest of manners and consideration. One could run a lot of doctoral theses on the solipsistic/sociopathic nature of the Western Me Me Me generations. Grrr arrgh. Does any of this make sense to you?Nasty sniping at actors, community leaders, etc. has always been publicly accepted; it's just that it used to be the province of the gossip columns, and those had to be careful about what they printed for legal reasons! - but now that Teh Interweb is open to every toxic little dweeb with a net connection, the gloves are off. And it sucks.
As you know, I've never understood the mentality that confuses artists with their work. I can't ever imagine thinking of Viggo Mortensen in RL as being anything like Aragorn, f'rinstance. I don't have the slightest interest in wondering whether or not Amber Benson shags women when she's not doing Tara. I had a major soft spot for Chekhov on the old Enterprise, and I utterly detested Bester on B5, but I've never related either character to Walter Koenig, the actor who played them...and I can't get my brain around the concept of anyone else not realising that there...is...a...difference, dammit!
There's a lot more that can be said, but not now. BTW I'm not immune to the occasional fantasy, you know: "Put the claws on again, Hugh, and come over here..." :P