#What I Learned Today or Brush (wired bristled brush) with the Rich and Famous.

I will warn you now there are some things in this post not for the whole family….

In the course of work today, I was listening to the Morning Blaze on IHeart radio as I do most mornings.   It can be very funny and libertarian slanted, as I have become.   One if the topics today was Ashley Judd and her op-ed about the foul and disgusting tweets she received after she made some harsh criticism of the Arkansas Razorbacks style of play in the SEC tourney.   While she criticized the Razorbacks, she in no way deserved the backlash their fans gave her.    I would never justify what was said to her, but as we know if you are famous and put it on social media, you are going to take it on the chin by some people.

Ms. Judd’s op-ed was basically calling these guys out and making herself the next martyr for women’s rights against the sexist pig men...  Again the response to her initial comments about the Razorbacks was not warranted and really WAY out of line.   She later went on some news program to discuss her opinion piece and stated that she was pressing charges against these people who called her all sorts of lovely things and described in detail where they wanted to do with their daddy parts.   Doc and Skip, the host of the Morning Blaze, was going on about how over blown her response was.    I TOTALLY agree them on this. 

They close out the show with a segment call “What I learned today.”   This is where the host and staff of the show tell what they learned during the course of the show.     The overwhelming thing learned today was Ashley Judd’s twitter handle is @ashleyjudd.   So being the smart ass I am I tweeted:

The whole point was to let Ashley know that I thought she needed to get over herself.   While what was said about her on Twitter was awful, did it really have any consequences on her life?   After I tweeted it, I though no more about it…. Until this afternoon.

I was getting ready to leave work when my phone vibrated.   I looked to see what it was and someone responded to one of my tweets.    I looked at it and Ashley tweeted me back.   Not believing that it happened, I opened it up to find this:

“Well that escalated quickly” I thought to myself.   So I thought I would let Ms. Judd know my intent of my original tweet, so I responded.   Now remember you only have 130 characters so you can’t be too in depth.

 

Well that didn’t settle too well with Ms. Judd.   She basically told me I was the same as a rapist or a woman abuser:

 

I may not smarter than your typical Hollywood actor, but I think she called me as bad as a rapist.    Well that wasn’t enough for her; she had to get her last dig in:

Did she say I wasn’t a man too?!?!?!   I hate to tell Ashley, but it is really hard to tell what a person believes in 130 characters.   Disparaging a person’s character on Twitter is part of what her original op-ed was about wasn’t it?

After this Ms. Judd blocked me from Twitter and that was it… for her.   Others of her followers wanted to bash me proceeded to block me when I attempted to defend my position.   That’s a typical narrow minded person.

While I probably should have chosen not to address Ms. Judd in my original tweet, I do this with lots of famous people.    Whether it is giving famous people a S/O or dogging them, I reach out on Twitter all the time.   So when I put myself out there, I expect that I sometimes will take a hit or two.   As I told Ms. Judd, it is the nature of the beast.   When you are famous, as she is, you are a bigger target.    I am a little fat guy conservative libertarian from Cleves Ohio of course I am not going to take the heat she does.   She is a famous, liberal, movie star who tweets a lot.   She also says things that piss people off (I know the feeling Ashley).   You’re either ready to take the heat or get off social media.   This is what I was trying to express in my Tweet.

I think of the ungodly things that conservative women like Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter have to take on social media, in the media, and in blogs on a daily basis.   It is downright disgusting.   It is every bit as crappy as the stuff that Ashley Judd heard from the Razorback fans.  Do you hear them bitching, moaning, or writing op-eds about it?   Nope they generally ignore it.   They may make a smart ass comment about it and go on.   Again, this is what Ms. Judd should have done.

I am sorry women have to hear the crap they hear.   Misogyny should not happen today.   Neither should Christian bashing, gay bashing, race bashing, fat bashing, physical/mental challenged bashing, or any other bashing.  That being said, life isn’t fair.   You have two choices: 1) you can run, hide, and cry (I have done that), or you can have thicker skin and ignore them.   If you can’t have thick skin, GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA!

What I learned today….   Me and Ms. Judd have a lot to work on.

In closing, my opinion about Ms. Judd hasn't changed.   I think is is a fantastic actress, amazingly beautiful, and a principled woman who is very dedicated for her causes.   I will not let this have any determining factor for me seeing her movies.   I also wish her nothing but happiness and joy in her life.   This is just another thing she and I will not see eye to eye on.