Talk:Seddie/@comment-14284535-20140528232608

I guess this was bound to happen to one of us eventually.

I have been growing away from some guys I befriended about 30 years ago. I left SF fandom and they went FIAWOL (fandom is a way of life). These guys make even the worst of the fans in iStart a Fan War look normal. I have a real job; they mooch off of people and have only transitory employment because real jobs interfere with their convention going. They use the connections to allow them to brag whom they know, met, etc. But when in doubt, they will sacrifice people on the altar of maintaining pull with the upper crust of the fandom and/or network.

Last weekend,  they were bad-mouthing Jennette McCurdy and belittled the idea that Miranda, Nathan, Maddie, and Victoria were "stupid enough to buy into her delusional lies about the behaviour of Nickelodeon" and that Jennette was an "ungrateful slut" who didn't appreciate what they had done for her. I said that the circumstantial evidence and elementary statistical analysis of the data imply that Nickelodeon were at best disingenuous towards her. I laid out my evidence. They said that my evidence was fabricated and that I was just "hot for the sexy slut."

Then the real issue came up: they claimed that my marriage to my wife was a phony to cover up for women not wanting to marry me except for convenience and that I was now looking at some kind of fantasy to get out of my marriage. Needless to say, my wife and I were very upset. We told them we were not associating with them either directly or indirectly ever again. Because of this brou-ha-ha between Jennette and Nickelodeon, I found out that these guys were not really friends and did not respect myself, my wife, or my commitment to my marriage.

Although it has been tough on her, her friends, and her fans, I am grateful that she stood on principle; by standing on principle, I threw out some garbage I accumulated 30 years ago.