Two occurrences have gotten people quite aggravated over the past few days. I'd imagine most people wouldn't give either much thought, but this fandom man....We have Caitriona attending an event held by DeBeers and Sam going on holiday during a pandemic. People are VERY upset about this and they aren't being honest about why.
No one cared (or likely knew) about DeBeers and their environmental impact until they saw a video of Caitriona at the event with her husband. Likewise, no one would care Sam was on holiday if they didn’t think he was with a woman.
Why not just say you hate she was with her husband and not Sam. And he is with a girlfriend and not Catriona. We know that's the reason, you know that's the reason, stop pretending otherwise. The switch of Sam and/or Caitriona from hero to villain can happen in a heartbeat. Or as long as it takes for all pictures from an event to be published or for someone to post an IG story.
People need to stop acting like they care for the environment or are concerned about the pandemic in these situations - especially when zero other people attending that event or currently on holiday are drawing fire. If you aren’t directing the same ire at other attendees of the event or other people, specifically other OL cast members, on holiday right now it strikes me that you maybe aren't as concerned as you claim to be...Either everyone is a villain or no one is.
To criticise Catriona for her attendance at the DeBeers event due to their environmental impact is fine…if you live a life that has zero environmental impact itself. And who does? No one. But sure let’s tear her apart (but only after we see her enjoying the entertainment with her husband...) Newsflash - Caitriona is not singlehandedly destroying the planet because she went to a party and cooed over some diamonds. Talk to me again when you live that zero impact life. Unless you can do that, your criticism of Caitriona in this regard seems rather hollow. But then she was enjoying the event with her husband and for that she must pay!
Now Sam being on holiday has the added spice of people being able to freak out about him being away with Patient Zero (for context - Sam’s apparent new gf was in South Africa recently, where the new covid variant was first discovered. So the implication is that she is a carrier. You’d think no one would be that brazen? Hahaha think again! From what I can gather she left SA some days before the new variant was even reported on. So she, along with the rest of us, likely knew nothing about it. I'd imagine Sam has a few things he likes in a girlfriend, maybe he needs to add being psychic to that list?) Yes yes, we know that Sam didn't exactly cover himself with glory when the pandemic started but on my list of Villains of the Pandemic, this guy (who is clearly pro vaccine and wears masks where necessary) isn't cracking my top 1000...
I tweeted that when Sam was in Mexico with his friends Alex and Matt, I don't recall people reacting in the same way. It was still a holiday during the pandemic, why no outrage then? Couldn't be that they were fine with it because he was with his male friends and this time he's likely away with a woman...
Neither of these things are crimes. Neither of these things are really worthy of comment. And yet comment people do. Make sure to show how much of a hypocrite Caitriona is. Make sure that everyone knows how irresponsible Sam is. At this point it is nothing but spite and petty and only helps to fuel hate.
But then they deserve it right? Cos they have the AUDACITY to not live their lives the way you want them to. What does it matter if someone’s social media is inundated with trolls and haters, they aren’t doing what YOU want so fuck ‘em right?
We’ve all seen it and we all know the sorts of messages they get, that the people they are close to get. Why would anyone go out of the way to encourage that? Because encourage it it does. Such words, tweets, blogs have consequences. A person may not be tagging them in hate or sending awful messages themselves, but SOMEONE is. We all know this. And yet it doesn't stop. Those messages don’t just float away never to be seen. They hurt. They are intended to hurt.
I thought about adding a paragraph including the names of some of the worst Instagram trolls who can always be found spreading their hate on the accounts of any woman that Sam is involved in, but honestly i think they'd like that. I don't know if they are shippers, ex shippers or what, but what I do know is that they are very small, sad, pathetic, ugly and must lead the emptiest of lives. By contrast the women they descend upon all appear to be funny, smart, vibrant, beautiful. Clearly that eats away at them. I pity them, I truly do.
The only things Sam and Caitriona actually owe us are their excellent performances in OL and other projects. If people can’t grasp that after all this time then that is not Sam or Catriona's issue. They are just living their lives. And that’s the operative word. THEIR. Theirs. Not ours and not whatever version each individual thinks they should be living.
It’s likely these are the same people who complain that they don’t share anything personal with us anymore. If people don’t understand why that is then they haven’t been paying attention and are blind to their own contribution to the change. It seems unlikely they will ever totally shut down their social media but never say never. Other celebs have so why not them?
Opinions are one thing none of this is opinion. It’s an endless cycle of pointless spite simply because they aren’t adhering to a life you want them to live and which they know nothing about. A life that sounds exhausting, with endless deception. Where a woman would hold a wedding with one man, while continuing to live with and have a child with another man. Where that man, who grew up without a father, appears to have made every effort to be as far away from his child as it's possible to be. Okay then.
The fandom conspiracy theorists would likely baulk at the comparison, but there is little difference between the way they conduct themselves and, say, a Q Anon follower. The basic tenets are the same - you are being lied to, only you know the truth, only you have worked it out, this goes all the way to the top, don't worry if this thing doesn't happen because this thing might happen instead...at some level a conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory...
Newsflash - no one is spending this much time and money on hiding Sam and Caitriona's secret marriage/making her get married to someone else/hiding their 1 to 4 children/forcing Sam to go on dates with other women. While things like non fraternisation clauses may well be a thing, a Starz or Sony exec sitting Sam and Caitriona down and saying 'hey you kids, we're just going to dictate literally every aspect of your lives and spend most of the Outlander budget to do it just so no one thinks you're married, 'kay?' seems...unlikely.
THAT people will believe - Caitriona being married to Tony with a baby and Sam being single and dating lots of women is just TOO FAR FETCHED. So we get this. Where Sam and Caitriona live their lives and they lash out. I'll keep saying this until the last syllable of recorded time but You. Can. Still. Ship. Them. Even if they aren't a couple. I do! But I'm not a fucking ass about it. I don't get on my hypocritical high horse when they live their actual lives. And if them living their actual lives upsets people so much, maybe they don't need you as a fan? Because it seems to me that a fan would actually respect the life choices they make. You don't have to like them, but don't act like you are personally offended by them. Because ultimately it has absolutely nothing to do with you at all. It's past time that people started to understand that.
No one cared (or likely knew) about DeBeers and their environmental impact until they saw a video of Caitriona at the event with her husband. Likewise, no one would care Sam was on holiday if they didn’t think he was with a woman.
Why not just say you hate she was with her husband and not Sam. And he is with a girlfriend and not Catriona. We know that's the reason, you know that's the reason, stop pretending otherwise. The switch of Sam and/or Caitriona from hero to villain can happen in a heartbeat. Or as long as it takes for all pictures from an event to be published or for someone to post an IG story.
People need to stop acting like they care for the environment or are concerned about the pandemic in these situations - especially when zero other people attending that event or currently on holiday are drawing fire. If you aren’t directing the same ire at other attendees of the event or other people, specifically other OL cast members, on holiday right now it strikes me that you maybe aren't as concerned as you claim to be...Either everyone is a villain or no one is.
To criticise Catriona for her attendance at the DeBeers event due to their environmental impact is fine…if you live a life that has zero environmental impact itself. And who does? No one. But sure let’s tear her apart (but only after we see her enjoying the entertainment with her husband...) Newsflash - Caitriona is not singlehandedly destroying the planet because she went to a party and cooed over some diamonds. Talk to me again when you live that zero impact life. Unless you can do that, your criticism of Caitriona in this regard seems rather hollow. But then she was enjoying the event with her husband and for that she must pay!
Now Sam being on holiday has the added spice of people being able to freak out about him being away with Patient Zero (for context - Sam’s apparent new gf was in South Africa recently, where the new covid variant was first discovered. So the implication is that she is a carrier. You’d think no one would be that brazen? Hahaha think again! From what I can gather she left SA some days before the new variant was even reported on. So she, along with the rest of us, likely knew nothing about it. I'd imagine Sam has a few things he likes in a girlfriend, maybe he needs to add being psychic to that list?) Yes yes, we know that Sam didn't exactly cover himself with glory when the pandemic started but on my list of Villains of the Pandemic, this guy (who is clearly pro vaccine and wears masks where necessary) isn't cracking my top 1000...
I tweeted that when Sam was in Mexico with his friends Alex and Matt, I don't recall people reacting in the same way. It was still a holiday during the pandemic, why no outrage then? Couldn't be that they were fine with it because he was with his male friends and this time he's likely away with a woman...
Neither of these things are crimes. Neither of these things are really worthy of comment. And yet comment people do. Make sure to show how much of a hypocrite Caitriona is. Make sure that everyone knows how irresponsible Sam is. At this point it is nothing but spite and petty and only helps to fuel hate.
But then they deserve it right? Cos they have the AUDACITY to not live their lives the way you want them to. What does it matter if someone’s social media is inundated with trolls and haters, they aren’t doing what YOU want so fuck ‘em right?
We’ve all seen it and we all know the sorts of messages they get, that the people they are close to get. Why would anyone go out of the way to encourage that? Because encourage it it does. Such words, tweets, blogs have consequences. A person may not be tagging them in hate or sending awful messages themselves, but SOMEONE is. We all know this. And yet it doesn't stop. Those messages don’t just float away never to be seen. They hurt. They are intended to hurt.
I thought about adding a paragraph including the names of some of the worst Instagram trolls who can always be found spreading their hate on the accounts of any woman that Sam is involved in, but honestly i think they'd like that. I don't know if they are shippers, ex shippers or what, but what I do know is that they are very small, sad, pathetic, ugly and must lead the emptiest of lives. By contrast the women they descend upon all appear to be funny, smart, vibrant, beautiful. Clearly that eats away at them. I pity them, I truly do.
The only things Sam and Caitriona actually owe us are their excellent performances in OL and other projects. If people can’t grasp that after all this time then that is not Sam or Catriona's issue. They are just living their lives. And that’s the operative word. THEIR. Theirs. Not ours and not whatever version each individual thinks they should be living.
It’s likely these are the same people who complain that they don’t share anything personal with us anymore. If people don’t understand why that is then they haven’t been paying attention and are blind to their own contribution to the change. It seems unlikely they will ever totally shut down their social media but never say never. Other celebs have so why not them?
Opinions are one thing none of this is opinion. It’s an endless cycle of pointless spite simply because they aren’t adhering to a life you want them to live and which they know nothing about. A life that sounds exhausting, with endless deception. Where a woman would hold a wedding with one man, while continuing to live with and have a child with another man. Where that man, who grew up without a father, appears to have made every effort to be as far away from his child as it's possible to be. Okay then.
The fandom conspiracy theorists would likely baulk at the comparison, but there is little difference between the way they conduct themselves and, say, a Q Anon follower. The basic tenets are the same - you are being lied to, only you know the truth, only you have worked it out, this goes all the way to the top, don't worry if this thing doesn't happen because this thing might happen instead...at some level a conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory...
Newsflash - no one is spending this much time and money on hiding Sam and Caitriona's secret marriage/making her get married to someone else/hiding their 1 to 4 children/forcing Sam to go on dates with other women. While things like non fraternisation clauses may well be a thing, a Starz or Sony exec sitting Sam and Caitriona down and saying 'hey you kids, we're just going to dictate literally every aspect of your lives and spend most of the Outlander budget to do it just so no one thinks you're married, 'kay?' seems...unlikely.
THAT people will believe - Caitriona being married to Tony with a baby and Sam being single and dating lots of women is just TOO FAR FETCHED. So we get this. Where Sam and Caitriona live their lives and they lash out.
I'll keep saying this until the last syllable of recorded time but You. Can. Still. Ship. Them. Even if they aren't a couple. I do! But I'm not a fucking ass about it. I don't get on my hypocritical high horse when they live their actual lives. And if them living their actual lives upsets people so much, maybe they don't need you as a fan? Because it seems to me that a fan would actually respect the life choices they make. You don't have to like them, but don't act like you are personally offended by them. Because ultimately it has absolutely nothing to do with you at all. It's past time that people started to understand that.
Perfectly worded!
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