nny | (no subject)

There's a tweet going around twitter at the moment: RT if you want Stephen Fry to come back to twitter.

For those not in the know, Stephen Fry came out with some quite ridiculously ignorant misogynist comments and then blew them off as 'humorous' and 'misquoted' before dramatically flouncing off twitter when people took him to task over it. Not the best way of dealing with things.

The problem with being Stephen Fry, of course, is that he's white and male and rich and educated, plus a well-loved celebrity to boot; he's also gay, and in that respect hasn't had it as easy as many, but the intersection of all those privileges in all likelihood means that he's really not used to being told he's wrong, very often. He rather makes a career out of not being so. So I understand that hundreds if not thousands if not millions of tweets suddenly pointing out that he'd made a bit of a tit of himself might have been rather jarring, but the way that he dealt with it was graceless.

So yeah, what probably started off as a helpful note that his shoe was untied turned quickly into mockery and disappointment and possibly even anger that he'd never learned to tie his shoes properly, but that's the internet for you. When he fell publicly on his face and then got angry and blotchy and huffed off... well. Frankly he's nothing to do with me. I'd give him a brusque dusting off, certainly, but I'm not kissing it better and no way am I begging him to come back and play.