I would not worry too much about this individual's bizarre ravings, as she clearly belongs to the lowest rung of the internet lunatic community. Her unique obsession with a single webcomic borders on psychosis, while her literary use of said comic as a straw man simply qualifies as pathetic and vindictive. I cannot imagine why Sequential Tart, or anyone else, would accept her in a position where she has access to pen, paper, typewriter, computer, or any other reproductive medium with which to immortalize her self-styled professional writing, which would get a D+ in a 100 level Professional Writing class at an accredited institution of higher learning, along with a referral to both Psychological Services and the Writing Tutorial shop.
While we're on the subject of vaguely personal attacks, and I do believe we are, thanks to the esteemed and thoroughly unhinged wackjob, I have to ask, has she ever even consulted with an editor? Briefly?
Her ludicrous ad-hominem attacks reek of ingrained hostility, terms like 'honeychild' make her resemble a caricature out of a fictional work set in the Deep South (next she'll lament how she's come to rely on the kindness of Webcomic Artists, or perhaps how, with God As Her Witness, she'll never read LJ again), and finally, she goes in leaps, bounds and sputters, with nothing resembling a narrative thread, but in its place, a veritable cartload of non-sequiturs and dubious claims.
Wow. My only guess is that, in the classic tradition of highly vitriolic, reactionary writing, the author here reveals more about herself than intended. Let's do a little informed speculation, shall we?
1: She is clearly obsessed with forming an arbitrary distinction between LiveJournal, a blogging service (and, might I add, one of the longest-running and most widely-used blogging services), and her own personal/psuedo-professional work. Why would a person, you might ask, attempt to cast an entire community of bloggers who, by the very definition of most blogging services represent a diverse group of interests, into a single mold that can then be ignored, discarded, or demonized at will? For the same reason, and I'm sorry about Godwin's Law here, that the Nazis did it to the Jews, Gypsies, etc: Deep, abiding personal fear. This sort of obsession typically stems from deep-rooted insecurities about oneself, which are masked with, and perversely manifested in, vicious hatred of others. She is likely troubled with her own 'professional standing', to the point that she feels she must lash out at others, to create an artificial differentiation between her own writing and theirs, in the hopes of establishing her own legitimacy.
Newsflash for the esteemed critic: one whose stock and trade is in personal vendetta and borerline libel in fact has no legitimacy in the world of publishing.
2: Her constant demeaning stabs at the age of her critics, and their attitudes on everything from music to sex, aside from being cliche to the point of self-parody, also illuminate a person deeply insecure about their own age. As any actual academic would know, there are brilliant people in all adult age groups; the correlation between age and polish on one's professional studies does not imply causation, and casting someone's work aside on the basis of their age alone is puerile and ignorant.
Having said that, the choice of topics, namely clothing, sex, music, cultural emblems, and the internet, does provide us with some further insight into a person haunted by these particular issues. Perhaps modern clothing (and, by the way, thongs? those haven't been either a controversy or a fad for a decade now) threatens her sense of modesty; perhaps sexually transmitted diseases terrify her with threats of mortality and illness; perhaps modern music proves too difficult to understand. The internet commentary, I'd assume, relates her as well to her fears of being revealed as the fraud that she is, and ending up cast out of whatever passes for the academic community studying webcomics.
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Date: 2004-09-26 02:07 pm (UTC)While we're on the subject of vaguely personal attacks, and I do believe we are, thanks to the esteemed and thoroughly unhinged wackjob, I have to ask, has she ever even consulted with an editor? Briefly?
Her ludicrous ad-hominem attacks reek of ingrained hostility, terms like 'honeychild' make her resemble a caricature out of a fictional work set in the Deep South (next she'll lament how she's come to rely on the kindness of Webcomic Artists, or perhaps how, with God As Her Witness, she'll never read LJ again), and finally, she goes in leaps, bounds and sputters, with nothing resembling a narrative thread, but in its place, a veritable cartload of non-sequiturs and dubious claims.
Wow. My only guess is that, in the classic tradition of highly vitriolic, reactionary writing, the author here reveals more about herself than intended. Let's do a little informed speculation, shall we?
1: She is clearly obsessed with forming an arbitrary distinction between LiveJournal, a blogging service (and, might I add, one of the longest-running and most widely-used blogging services), and her own personal/psuedo-professional work. Why would a person, you might ask, attempt to cast an entire community of bloggers who, by the very definition of most blogging services represent a diverse group of interests, into a single mold that can then be ignored, discarded, or demonized at will? For the same reason, and I'm sorry about Godwin's Law here, that the Nazis did it to the Jews, Gypsies, etc: Deep, abiding personal fear. This sort of obsession typically stems from deep-rooted insecurities about oneself, which are masked with, and perversely manifested in, vicious hatred of others. She is likely troubled with her own 'professional standing', to the point that she feels she must lash out at others, to create an artificial differentiation between her own writing and theirs, in the hopes of establishing her own legitimacy.
Newsflash for the esteemed critic: one whose stock and trade is in personal vendetta and borerline libel in fact has no legitimacy in the world of publishing.
2: Her constant demeaning stabs at the age of her critics, and their attitudes on everything from music to sex, aside from being cliche to the point of self-parody, also illuminate a person deeply insecure about their own age. As any actual academic would know, there are brilliant people in all adult age groups; the correlation between age and polish on one's professional studies does not imply causation, and casting someone's work aside on the basis of their age alone is puerile and ignorant.
Having said that, the choice of topics, namely clothing, sex, music, cultural emblems, and the internet, does provide us with some further insight into a person haunted by these particular issues. Perhaps modern clothing (and, by the way, thongs? those haven't been either a controversy or a fad for a decade now) threatens her sense of modesty; perhaps sexually transmitted diseases terrify her with threats of mortality and illness; perhaps modern music proves too difficult to understand. The internet commentary, I'd assume, relates her as well to her fears of being revealed as the fraud that she is, and ending up cast out of whatever passes for the academic community studying webcomics.