Welcome to depression club! We haven’t made any rules yet… Too hard.
Joking aside I can relate to just feeling mentally exhausted between the real life pandemic era experience and the gavage of hate online.
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‘What do we want?’
‘Depression!’
‘When do we want it?’
‘I… don’t really want it, what about you, Tim?’
‘I…I’m not sure I really want it either.’
‘Fancy a starbucks instead?’
‘Too depressing, I’ll pass.’
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Okay, now we see where you’re coming from.
Still, one can’t just stick one’s head in the sand, or else these folks are gonna line up to put their foot up our asses.
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My dying small home town has a bunch of my high school class, some of whom are still convinced Trump won the last election. They forget all of us who moved out, who they know hates Trump. My home town and home county went for Biden, so even living in a currently “Blue” town, county, state and country, they’re still convinced that the fix was in.
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I am glad I figured out pretty early that you don’t want your employers aware of your social media presence. After reading several stories about people getting fired for Facebook posts I realized there was no good reason to link my accounts to my job, friend co-workers, etc.–doing those things would probably never be beneficial but might cause me to lose my job if someone from that part of my life had an issue with something I posted. What I find surprising about many public figures especially in the entertainment industry, haven’t figured out that having a public social media account opens you up to scrutiny by your current and future employers as well as fans of your work. It shouldn’t be shocking that people don’t want to work with or watch people who espouse bigoted, hateful views. For the ones who can’t help themselves from vomiting up this garbage online, I guess it is better to know so I can choose not to support their endeavors.
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Before they kicked her to the curb, Disney actually reached out to Carano and asked her to stop, when she didn’t they offered to pay for a PR company to manage her social media and she refused that as well. She was literally offered an out and refused to take it.
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They could try not being hateful bigots?
Being on social media to some extent is probably a huge part of the modern job in entertainment. I’m guessing that the bigger celebrities can afford a team to do that, making it easier to avoid controversy. But if you’re not as big of a star, you probably do that stuff on your own, and doing so helps you to connect with opportunities for networking and showing off your talents as a performer. But you also want to connect with their fans, and that’s where things can go awry if they think their fan base are all of one or another political viewpoint.
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Holy crap! I hadn’t heard that part. Wow, she seems truly awful and self destructive. Glad she’s no longer part of any future Star Wars projects.
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You’d think that would be obvious, but apparently not…
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They probably do not believe that they are being hateful bigots, but they are.
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(everyone is the hero in the story they tell themselves)
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Doesn’t mean they are…
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exactly my point
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Jose Pascal - the star of The Mandalorian- has a younger sister - Lux Pascal - who is an actress and transgender activist.
“she had her first appearance in an international series, when she played Elijah in the third season of the Netflix series Narcos , where she starred with her brother Pedro.“
“She revealed she is a transgender woman in February 2021, changing her name to Lux Pascal, taking her maternal surname.“
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So much this. People so often act like the issue is that the employer found their social media, rather than the fact that these people are monsters.
“Not being a hateful disgusting human being” is a very very low bar to clear. We should be marvelling that some people have trouble doing so, not that employers are looking at their social media.
It’s often phrased along the lines of, “if they can be fired for what they said on Twitter, none of us are safe!!”. Well, no… I’ve never said anything on social media that would be even remotely close to objectionable to an employer. It just ain’t that hard.
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I don’t even have any social media! But I think if I did, I wouldn’t be a monster on it… Not difficult!
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Action heroins are my thing and I advocated for Gina Carano - a woman who had legit fighting skills and the physique to match, not another skinny model pretending to beat up guys twice her size. Anybody see Haywire? Great movie and she kicks serious ass. I sang its praises. I liked In The Blood, a solid action b movie, fun watch. Scorched Earth was terrible and I felt bad for her being in such low budget garbage. When she showed up in the Star Wars show I thought “great, Gina’s gonna get the respect she deserves now and a proper staring role in a decent movie again”…
And then she opened her stupid redneck mouth.
Disappointed doesn’t describe it. Betrayed, maybe. You worked with Sodorbergh! You had a contract with Disney! Really, this is what you want to say? Stupid redneck shit?
Yee-fucking-haw.
I see her next role is “Agent Hound” in the upcoming “fictionalized account” My Son Hunter
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Is that what they’re calling 8-Balls these days? /s
(No offense, I realize it was probably autocomplete. Just couldn’t ignore that one.)
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