They were tall and leggy, looked great in short shorts, and could smack the sh!t out of a short serve.
And apparently, they were mean as sh!t. Massive allegations of "bullying", and these two gals are the latest to get jettisoned off the social media and advertiser's List of OK People, and fitted with goat horns.
My question is, bereft of actual first or even secondhand context: what did these two do exactly? Because I'm not quite sure, besides the fact that they are alleged to be Very Mean Girls Indeed?
And now they are Radioactive.
Help me understand how this works, because even I don't really understand what this is about.
Re: Evidently, cancel-culture is not just a US thing
Feb 18, 2021, 2:54 PM
No, it isn't.
I mean, fame has always been ephemeral and could be made to disappear in seconds, as first the faceless members of HUAC - which included Richard Nixon - and then Joe McCarthy's witch hunts showed clear back in the '50's, when even getting your name on a list or attending the wrong party could permanently destroy your career, but social media has certainly added a spiciness to that we've never seen before.
Social media is a permanent social record. Permanent. Indelible. That anybody can dredge up and use against you for the remainder of your life. And that is spooky, and something we all need to give some consideration to.
And it's not just our own social media, unfortunately, but also, unfortunately, the social medias of what other people say about us.
The further we get into it, the more convinced I'm becoming we that we all probably need to plug back out. I did, about 4-5 years ago, and have never missed it.
I imagine for every one of these stories, there are 100 such situations that are handled rationally and internally - and that never ever make the news.
Speaking of... what are the odds the US will boycott the Beijing Olympics? I'll all for it myself. Have been avoiding 'made in China' as much as possible since they covid bombed the world.
but they've tacitly admitted to the allegations (including physical abuse) by apologizing to their "victims." Seems like the conversation should be about forgiveness and how we treat people's mistakes especially if they made those mistakes as kids.
Oh, trust me, if volleyball chicks in Korea are anything like the ones here, they absolutely bullied, like Genghis Khan on a leather holiday retreat. Volleyball chicks are...savagely competitive, in my experience. If they were at the top of the anthill, I would expect them to be particularly savage pieces of work.
But...now we're blaming them for that? Seems awful late in the day, especially since they were the products and not the architects of that particular anthill, you know?
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