November 7, 2010 @ 4:18 p.m.
The New York Times is endlessly disgusting and immature. I sit here, night after night, taking pictures, writing essays, trying to deal with the havoc that the situation of the past several months has been creating, and newspapers such as the Times fill up their pages with “cheese,” “cleanup,” and pictures of girls’ butts.
Would the Times like to explain how it thinks that I’m the one who needs to get cleaned up when it has spent the past 8 months doing nothing but making horrible, dirty jokes?
What’s been happening is serious; the intention behind it is to hurt, humiliate and ridicule women and everyone who respects women.
Here are a few things that got published in the Burlington Free Press today:
--A quote in large print that says “It always gets exciting when it goes into overtime and even more exciting when it goes to strokes,” above a picture of high school girls’ field hockey. (p. 4B)
--A story about and picture of Burlington High School students in a play about waste reduction above the Burlington Free Press’s section called “Earthweek: Diary of a Planet,” that has captions including but not limited to “Rising Tide Wall.” (p. 2D) On the opposite page to those two stories is another story about the environment and an ad for a business that sells not just seafood but also cheese and wine. (p. 3D)
As a side note; on the front page of the “D” section, there’s a lead-in to an article that says “For savory stuffed pockets start with local lard.” Lard? In health-conscious Vermont? I thought all of the harassers had health as part of their joke, and now they’re all about lard?
The principal of Burlington High School was featured in the October 1, 2010 North Avenue News that I wrote about in my blog page called “From October 14, 2010;” she’s married to Republican Charlie Smith, who wanted to get elected to the Vermont State Senate. That entire issue of the North Avenue News was full of support for the pedophilia, death threats and sexual harassment.
Charlie Smith is NOT a Vermont State Senator. It doesn’t look as if his attempt to exploit the situation worked.
As far as Friday Night Lights is concerned, the previews for their next episode had people holding their noses, noseplugs, that kind of thing; I’ve had enough. Really; it’s the same thing every year with that show, the same cycle, in one form or another. The fact of the matter is that the show would have been cancelled either in the middle or at the end of its second season if it weren’t for me, and everybody knows it. They’re STILL re-using ideas that they got from me; I haven’t written anything new for them in almost 2 years.
What’s more, they’re using ideas that they got from what I’ve written online that have nothing to do with them, just as they’ve done since I’ve had a presence online. Other TV shows have done the same thing; if there’s even one TV show that’s been part of the harassment for the past several months that hadn’t already used my ideas and plagiarized things I said, and that didn’t continue to do that even while being harassing, I don’t know which TV show that might be. As far as movies go; is there an American movie from the past 6 months that hasn’t had something to do with me as one of its themes if not as its central theme, or that hasn’t used something that I’ve written or a weak re-phrasing of something I had written?
What did all of those people think they were doing, flattering me by using my ideas or things I write about myself when I didn't give them permission to do that? How do they justify using me for material even while they’re horrible about me? Are any of them capable of doing their own writing or thinking of their own ideas?
I can see why people who either can’t think of new ideas or who don’t feel like thinking of them would be happy to sit in writers’ conferences week after week and make jokes about things such as fish, cheese, and the BP oil spill. How does that go: “Fish! Cheese! BP oil spill! Clean it up! Hey, look, it’s 3:30 p.m. and we’ve all been here for 2 hours already; let’s call it a day.”
I’m going to say this again, so that anyone who missed it the first 10 times I said it might get the picture now; I’m not interested in writing for Friday Night Lights or anybody else who’s been part of the harassment. I said that about that show a long time ago, even before the sexual harassment became an issue. Friday Night Lights isn’t capable of hiring me; they couldn’t pay me enough. However, I don’t see any reason why they need to continue to be miserably disrespectful.
I’m tired of dealing with these issues. I’m tired of taking pictures of the Burlington Free Press and other newspapers. I’m tired of looking at it, thinking about it, keeping an eye out for it all the time; it’s something that ought to be self-explanatory to intelligent adults as something that ought not to be happening, and I resent the fact that I’ve done as much work on it as I have, and still the unnecessary ugliness and stupidity of it continue. There’s no reason why anybody should be getting ridiculed on that level; it’s disgusting, and there’s no reason why it should have gone on for as long as it has, and the pedophilia side of it still has the power to shock me in how disturbed it is.
What the Obama administration has done over the past few months is inexcusable; it is completely inexcusable. To have the government endorse abuse and harassment of anyone is inexcusable. There is NO WAY that that administration would let slurs about any black person happen even for a day, even for an hour.
Copyright L. Kochman November 7, 2010
The New York Times is endlessly disgusting and immature. I sit here, night after night, taking pictures, writing essays, trying to deal with the havoc that the situation of the past several months has been creating, and newspapers such as the Times fill up their pages with “cheese,” “cleanup,” and pictures of girls’ butts.
Would the Times like to explain how it thinks that I’m the one who needs to get cleaned up when it has spent the past 8 months doing nothing but making horrible, dirty jokes?
What’s been happening is serious; the intention behind it is to hurt, humiliate and ridicule women and everyone who respects women.
Here are a few things that got published in the Burlington Free Press today:
--A quote in large print that says “It always gets exciting when it goes into overtime and even more exciting when it goes to strokes,” above a picture of high school girls’ field hockey. (p. 4B)
--A story about and picture of Burlington High School students in a play about waste reduction above the Burlington Free Press’s section called “Earthweek: Diary of a Planet,” that has captions including but not limited to “Rising Tide Wall.” (p. 2D) On the opposite page to those two stories is another story about the environment and an ad for a business that sells not just seafood but also cheese and wine. (p. 3D)
As a side note; on the front page of the “D” section, there’s a lead-in to an article that says “For savory stuffed pockets start with local lard.” Lard? In health-conscious Vermont? I thought all of the harassers had health as part of their joke, and now they’re all about lard?
The principal of Burlington High School was featured in the October 1, 2010 North Avenue News that I wrote about in my blog page called “From October 14, 2010;” she’s married to Republican Charlie Smith, who wanted to get elected to the Vermont State Senate. That entire issue of the North Avenue News was full of support for the pedophilia, death threats and sexual harassment.
Charlie Smith is NOT a Vermont State Senator. It doesn’t look as if his attempt to exploit the situation worked.
As far as Friday Night Lights is concerned, the previews for their next episode had people holding their noses, noseplugs, that kind of thing; I’ve had enough. Really; it’s the same thing every year with that show, the same cycle, in one form or another. The fact of the matter is that the show would have been cancelled either in the middle or at the end of its second season if it weren’t for me, and everybody knows it. They’re STILL re-using ideas that they got from me; I haven’t written anything new for them in almost 2 years.
What’s more, they’re using ideas that they got from what I’ve written online that have nothing to do with them, just as they’ve done since I’ve had a presence online. Other TV shows have done the same thing; if there’s even one TV show that’s been part of the harassment for the past several months that hadn’t already used my ideas and plagiarized things I said, and that didn’t continue to do that even while being harassing, I don’t know which TV show that might be. As far as movies go; is there an American movie from the past 6 months that hasn’t had something to do with me as one of its themes if not as its central theme, or that hasn’t used something that I’ve written or a weak re-phrasing of something I had written?
What did all of those people think they were doing, flattering me by using my ideas or things I write about myself when I didn't give them permission to do that? How do they justify using me for material even while they’re horrible about me? Are any of them capable of doing their own writing or thinking of their own ideas?
I can see why people who either can’t think of new ideas or who don’t feel like thinking of them would be happy to sit in writers’ conferences week after week and make jokes about things such as fish, cheese, and the BP oil spill. How does that go: “Fish! Cheese! BP oil spill! Clean it up! Hey, look, it’s 3:30 p.m. and we’ve all been here for 2 hours already; let’s call it a day.”
I’m going to say this again, so that anyone who missed it the first 10 times I said it might get the picture now; I’m not interested in writing for Friday Night Lights or anybody else who’s been part of the harassment. I said that about that show a long time ago, even before the sexual harassment became an issue. Friday Night Lights isn’t capable of hiring me; they couldn’t pay me enough. However, I don’t see any reason why they need to continue to be miserably disrespectful.
I’m tired of dealing with these issues. I’m tired of taking pictures of the Burlington Free Press and other newspapers. I’m tired of looking at it, thinking about it, keeping an eye out for it all the time; it’s something that ought to be self-explanatory to intelligent adults as something that ought not to be happening, and I resent the fact that I’ve done as much work on it as I have, and still the unnecessary ugliness and stupidity of it continue. There’s no reason why anybody should be getting ridiculed on that level; it’s disgusting, and there’s no reason why it should have gone on for as long as it has, and the pedophilia side of it still has the power to shock me in how disturbed it is.
What the Obama administration has done over the past few months is inexcusable; it is completely inexcusable. To have the government endorse abuse and harassment of anyone is inexcusable. There is NO WAY that that administration would let slurs about any black person happen even for a day, even for an hour.
Copyright L. Kochman November 7, 2010