House of Eratosthenes

It seems like, from reading this, the judge immediately recognized what he did wrong and apologized. I didn’t see that in the video I was watching, but I’ll just assume that’s correct. If so, there was nothing mean-spirited going on here. Just another case of poor judgment on the part of someone speaking in public.

Well, it’s a bit more than that though. Tom Bergeron nailed it. People in show business shouldn’t ridicule other people in show business for being in show business. Also, anti-bullying activists shouldn’t bully people.

Charlotte McKinney I was bullied when I was a kid. The teachers wouldn’t help; they all said I should pay closer attention to whatever behaviors I might be showing to attract the bullying. That was actually pretty good advice. Did it work? No. Like a lot of kids in sixth & seventh grades, I didn’t have the maturity to self-correct on that level. Eventually, I hit back one time, then twice, and that pretty much stopped the bullying.

Gay people I can take. Gay people who complain about bullying, have my sympathy. Flamboyantly gay people, like Tonioli, I can “tolerate.” I do have a problem one with guy doing all three of those things though. Because my teachers back then, while failing the standards imposed nowadays, were correct in what they said and at some point people have to take responsibility for their behavior and how it might be altering their experiences with other people. Yeah maybe that statement seems retrograde and a bit harsh, but don’t judge it until you’ve watched this guy in action. Come to think of it, isn’t school supposed to be mostly about exactly that? Learning to socialize with each other? That you can’t just behave any ol’ way and then complain? Supposedly that’s the big advantage public school has over home-schooling, kids are supposed to learn how to “socially mature.” In my world, that means connecting actions with results, refining behavior, and I grant credit to anyone who does it purely pragmatically, to achieve their own goals. It takes time. We do the designated-oppressed-person-classes no favors by essentially telling them, “act however you want to act, and if people treat you in a way not to your liking, it’s always the other person’s problem (unless they happen to be in a more highly favored oppressed-person-class).”

But anyway. To then to go from there, and start bullying someone else, suggests some rather ugly ulterior motives. It suggests there’s something in anti-bullying activism that isn’t concerned quite so much with opposing bullying, but rather with controlling who gets to do the bullying and who should be on the receiving end. It’s something that’s becoming a pattern. I really wouldn’t care much whether they kick him off the show or not. But, my wife watches it, so if he quietly retires over this I won’t be shedding any tears for him. It’s not because he’s gay or because I think he’s a bad person or anything, he may very well have some decent things about him. And heck, maybe Ms. McKinney is a bad person and really had it coming. I dunno. But he’s loud and distracting. Many a time I’ve noticed, I’d be able to fall asleep and get some decent shut-eye while she watches the latest episode right next to me, if only it weren’t for that loud over-acting judge, over on the right. So to find out at this late date that some of this loudness is going toward creating new and innovative ways to insult people, who are really doing nothing more or less than being guests on the show, doesn’t offer me much motivation to start appreciating him any more than I did before.

It’s not that he’s homosexual, it’s that he’s chosen to adopted such a dramatically flamboyant persona!
By the way, what are the odds that Ms. (Miss.? Mrs. hyphen?) McKinney WOULD ever see an “award” reflecting superior intellect, or major contribution to the world human condition?
Is it her vast training in dance, or years of “mastering the “craft” of performance art ,that brought her to
such an esteemed competition?
Much like “boyfriend”, “husband”, or “other”, is there a secretly held, internationally recognized, triple nine PHD in “theoretical” that would be “put-off-ish” in scoring/pay off “image” considerations, as with Gentleman’s Club dancers?
IMHO, yah, nice curves. I suspect that the over all persona MIGHT be deemed what SOME folks call, high maintenance.
- CaptDMO | 04/24/2015 @ 07:10
….chosen to adopted? *sheesh*
- CaptDMO | 04/24/2015 @ 07:12
God, more shame storms, faux outrage and first world problems.

We’re in a pretty bad spot when the truth is offensive. She is NOT going to win the Nobel Prize for quantum physics. Neither am I. Neither are 99.999% of people on the planet. Who gives a shit? What kind of whiny pussy people have time or energy to get offended about that shit? *That* is what offends me.
- cloudbuster | 04/24/2015 @ 07:35
Sadly, as the decline sets in, we can expect more of this.

Liberals are all autistics; they can’t — physically can’t — handle changes to their precious routine. They have a movie script for every human interaction all doped out in their heads, and it breaks their brains when people don’t say their lines on cue.

I love the bikini photos, though. Can some leftard please insult Heather Locklear, circa 1982?
- Severian | 04/24/2015 @ 07:48
“Shame storm.” I like it.
- mkfreeberg | 04/24/2015 @ 08:23
Holy shit. If I’d known that Charlotte McKinney was on Dancing with the Stars, I’d have started watching it. Thanks, Morgan! I’ll have to get a copy of this season’s episodes.
And some lotion.
Lots of lotion.
- muttley | 04/24/2015 @ 09:02
I can’t take credit for “shame storm.” I don’t know if Megan McArdle originated it, but that’s where I heard it recently:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-17/how-the-internet-became-a-shame-storm
- cloudbuster | 04/24/2015 @ 10:47
Well maybe it comes through in the writing, but I’m divided on this. And that mostly has to do with “shame storm fatigue.”

On the other hand, if we do have to have shame storms, I can’t think of a better place to apply them than to this misbegotten idea that if a woman looks good, she has to be stupid. I’ve been offering my metaphorical seat my whole life, to women in my age bracket and economic class because they’re supposed to have been catching-up, making up for lost time, recouping damages they incurred in previous generations for the unfair benefit of men (who were & are not me). It seems a given I’m going to have to listen to the racket for ANOTHER 45 years or so, if in this day & age it’s oh-so-stylish to impose that choice on women that they can be gorgeous or respected for their intellect, but never, ever, both.

Besides of which, the flip-side of “ravishing women must all be stupid” is “ugly women in pantsuits must be rocket-scientist smart.” That mythology is inflicting even greater damage. It might very well inflict a whole lot more next November, but that’s a whole different topic.
- mkfreeberg | 04/24/2015 @ 16:54
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