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[Doktor Howl]

So.

Lillie has responded to my complaint about the safety guy's racial slurs with an incredible shit rain of retaliation, some of which she put IN WRITING (!!!).

Wadding the whole mishegoss up, alongside almost 8 years of documented harassment against 2 members of my crew, sending off to corporate HR.

She's out of town until next Wednesday, as of an hour ago.

I'm off until Monday.

Her phone is unavailable.  Mine is not.



I didn't expect things to implode quite this quickly.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So.

Lillie has responded to my complaint about the safety guy's racial slurs with an incredible shit rain of retaliation, some of which she put IN WRITING (!!!).

Wadding the whole mishegoss up, alongside almost 8 years of documented harassment against 2 members of my crew, sending off to corporate HR.

She's out of town until next Wednesday, as of an hour ago.

I'm off until Monday.

Her phone is unavailable.  Mine is not.



I didn't expect things to implode quite this quickly.   

Oh, wow.  Lillie really is clueless. Jesus.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So. So my oldest daughter and I had a fight.

Her: "Joss Whedon is such a baby, he deleted his Twitter"
Me: "Don't believe everything you read on Tumblr, it's full of bullies who shit-talk other people to make them feel better about themselves"
Her: furiously shit-talking me on Tumblr
Me: "Case in point, that right there"
Her: "What?"
Me: "Don't you think it's a little hypocritical, that you expect me to house you, feed you, clothe you, and provide you with internet so you can shit-talk me on Tumblr?"
Her: "I don't know what you mean"
Me: "I mean, I know you talk shit about me on Tumblr, but I don't go looking for it because I don't want to know. But right in front of me? Really? I can see that."
Her: furiously shit-talking me even more in a post I can see because I'm FOUR FEET AWAY
Me: "You know what? Get out. Get out of my house. Go spend the night at your dad's house. It's like it's never occurred to you that the things you say can hurt people. Or like you don't care. I'm going to the store, please be gone when I get back.
Her: Gone
Me: <heart is breaking>

Mostly trying not to not let Little Orange see me crying. I feel like a complete shit mom.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So. So my oldest daughter and I had a fight.

Her: "Joss Whedon is such a baby, he deleted his Twitter"
Me: "Don't believe everything you read on Tumblr, it's full of bullies who shit-talk other people to make them feel better about themselves"
Her: furiously shit-talking me on Tumblr
Me: "Case in point, that right there"
Her: "What?"
Me: "Don't you think it's a little hypocritical, that you expect me to house you, feed you, clothe you, and provide you with internet so you can shit-talk me on Tumblr?"
Her: "I don't know what you mean"
Me: "I mean, I know you talk shit about me on Tumblr, but I don't go looking for it because I don't want to know. But right in front of me? Really? I can see that."
Her: furiously shit-talking me even more in a post I can see because I'm FOUR FEET AWAY
Me: "You know what? Get out. Get out of my house. Go spend the night at your dad's house. It's like it's never occurred to you that the things you say can hurt people. Or like you don't care. I'm going to the store, please be gone when I get back.
Her: Gone
Me: <heart is breaking>

Mostly trying not to not let Little Orange see me crying. I feel like a complete shit mom.

That sucks, Nigel. Sorry to hear it.

[hooplala]

So. So my oldest daughter and I had a fight.

Her: "Joss Whedon is such a baby, he deleted his Twitter"
Me: "Don't believe everything you read on Tumblr, it's full of bullies who shit-talk other people to make them feel better about themselves"
Her: furiously shit-talking me on Tumblr
Me: "Case in point, that right there"
Her: "What?"
Me: "Don't you think it's a little hypocritical, that you expect me to house you, feed you, clothe you, and provide you with internet so you can shit-talk me on Tumblr?"
Her: "I don't know what you mean"
Me: "I mean, I know you talk shit about me on Tumblr, but I don't go looking for it because I don't want to know. But right in front of me? Really? I can see that."
Her: furiously shit-talking me even more in a post I can see because I'm FOUR FEET AWAY
Me: "You know what? Get out. Get out of my house. Go spend the night at your dad's house. It's like it's never occurred to you that the things you say can hurt people. Or like you don't care. I'm going to the store, please be gone when I get back.
Her: Gone
Me: <heart is breaking>

Mostly trying not to not let Little Orange see me crying. I feel like a complete shit mom.

I'm starting to feel like Tumblr is a cult for some people.  How else do you explain things like that becoming more important to you than the feelings of the people around you?

[Doktor Howl]

I feel like a complete shit mom.

If parenting were all sunshine and monkey poop, that might be accurate.  But it isn't, as you well know.

You handled that better than our parent's generation would have.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

+1 on the not a shit moms. You gotta put lines somewhere.

[Eater of Clowns]

So. So my oldest daughter and I had a fight.

Her: "Joss Whedon is such a baby, he deleted his Twitter"
Me: "Don't believe everything you read on Tumblr, it's full of bullies who shit-talk other people to make them feel better about themselves"
Her: furiously shit-talking me on Tumblr
Me: "Case in point, that right there"
Her: "What?"
Me: "Don't you think it's a little hypocritical, that you expect me to house you, feed you, clothe you, and provide you with internet so you can shit-talk me on Tumblr?"
Her: "I don't know what you mean"
Me: "I mean, I know you talk shit about me on Tumblr, but I don't go looking for it because I don't want to know. But right in front of me? Really? I can see that."
Her: furiously shit-talking me even more in a post I can see because I'm FOUR FEET AWAY
Me: "You know what? Get out. Get out of my house. Go spend the night at your dad's house. It's like it's never occurred to you that the things you say can hurt people. Or like you don't care. I'm going to the store, please be gone when I get back.
Her: Gone
Me: <heart is breaking>

Mostly trying not to not let Little Orange see me crying. I feel like a complete shit mom.

I know that this is happening IRLs and I am sorry, bit it feels like the next sentence here is along the lines of, " and then she found the drainpipe. "

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

I think you did alright Nigel, don't beat yourself up. Hell, if i said shit like that to my dad he would've grabbed my ears and screamed in my face. A sleepover at her dad's might actually do her some good.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

also, have you considered using your router to put Tumblr on a blacklist so she cant access it from your house?

[Reginald Ret]

also, have you considered using your router to put Tumblr on a blacklist so she cant access it from your house?

... that would backfire horribly.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

yea, it occurs to me that accessing tumblr literally anywhere else would probably be the first thing she'd do. Second thing would be to post on tumblr about how oppressive it is to be banned from tumblr.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Thanks, you guys. Seriously, just thanks.

Chelagoras, I don't know the first thing about blocking things with my router.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

I don't know the specifics, I just know it can be done. You can put sites under a certain domain on a block list so they can't be seen. so any URLs that begin with "www.tumblr.com/" are verboten.

Then again, maybe Ret has a point. I have raised exactly zero teenagers, so... grain of salt.

[Cain]

Its also fairly amazing how much they obsess over comics/movies based on comics and Disney in comparison with say, actual politics.

Please, you cant compare them. One is a barely believable distraction filled with exaggerated caricatures that have been trotting out the same clichéd tropes since time immemorial, and then there's comic books.

I confess (not really much of a confession) I obsess over films and comic books and am largely ignorant of politics but I'm glad when I look at the rage against Weadon that I don't feel a sense of selfish entitled indignation when a creator makes a character do something that falls outside of my simplified tunnel vision of how things should be.

But you're not treating your interest in comic books and films as an interest in politics, which is I think a key difference as well.

Interestingly, a lot of the BW/Banner stuff had to be cut, which likely didn't help matters.  I cant say I'm surprised.  It was a long film anyway, and with the vast amount of characters involved, some things were always going to be left by the wayside.