User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Because Our Opinions Totally Count For Something ;3/@comment-5044859-20140819003727/@comment-14284535-20140819211952

I think maybe a different perspective may help you, LeahSedandHP.

I think you should list who said what on a blog or some such, because that would force those of us who said something inflammatory to own it or to explain any nuance we think you missed. I, for one, would be the first to claim that I am not neutral in this, no matter how hard I try to maintain an objective perspective. Even if you think that would be a bad idea, I have no problem with owning my writings and expect to get called out buy name on anything untowards.

Please remember that my evaluation of what has happened comes from someone whose friends have kids older than the principals here.

I should point out that one reason Nathan Kress is taking it on the chin here is because people found his effusive praise of HD to be risible in view of how awful the premise is. Thus, they leapt to the conclusion that he is throwing Jennette under the bus. For all we know, he actually likes the show. It could just be a teenage guy thing.

One thing that I have said before and will re-iterate here: Nathan Kress looks like he was brought up in about as conservative a fashion as I was. It might be unfair of me to therefore use my standard of conduct on him because some of my decisions were either life-or-death or had far-reaching political and social consequences that are hard for a 5 year old to handle. (No, that is not a typo.) I look very dimly at his promotion of HD. IMHO, he knows full well what the repercussions are of doing it. It's his prerogative just as it is mine to look askance at that decision.