One Mary Sue is much like another

[veronica_rich]

You know, if you're a fan of a "forbidden couple" in your own favorite fandom, I would think the very last thing you would want to do is point and laugh and make fun of teenage girls who love the lead couple in "Twilight."

And anyone who wants to go to the movie to do nothing but point and laugh? Wait a couple of months until it's at the dollar theater. Better yet, wait to rent the DVD. Or buy the book and scream with laughter at home. Let the girls go get their fun out of it first - they're not paying $10 to listen to your "witticisms" and cutting remarks about their taste or relative intelligence. It's an escape - it may not be Chaucer, but it's what they enjoy. I don't believe I would enjoy the books or the movie based on what I've read, but I wouldn't shell out my own money to deliberately ruin somebody else's theatrical experience.

I'm just saying.

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[danglingdingle.livejournal.com]

There's this one part of human nature that I've never even begun to understand; What is the fun of deliberately pissing into other people's breakfast porriges?

When I sit here, really thinking what kind of a person would pay money to be able to purposely, maliciously ruin other people's day and possibly an experience they've actually nervously waited for, I honestly hope I'll never meet that person.
I don't pretend to understand that kind of behaviour even when it's free of charge, but it just goes over my head completely when there's money in the equation.

Is it some sort of feeling of superiority that people get from that kind of behaviour? Is it that somehow other person's likes and dislikes are less meaningful, and should actually be stomped on and killed with fire, in comparison to the bullies' fancies?

Then, well...Imagine, if you will, a young couple going to have sex for the first time, one of them might even still be a virgin; Everything's going smoothly, it's romantic and nice and safe and all they could ever ask for, and suddenly this guy in a clown suit jumps through the window with a magnifying glass and a balloon that has 'LOL' printed on it, and starts to sing "Look! LOOK! Look how small it is! You couldn't catch fish with that! And would you look at those strech marks and that flab!", and it doesn't stop before daddy comes in with a shotgun, and you don't really know which part of it all is actually worse.

Ok, maybe not the most everyday example, but still; What's in it for the clown?

Serious question.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

LULZ. Seriously, because this is all life is now. LULZ for the sake of cutting somebody else down. It pisses me off. (Which is not to be confused with cutting somebody else down because they've done it to you first, repeatedly and gleefully. I am not a "turn the other cheek" kind of gal.)

See, this is why we can't have nice things.