purpose

so ... i’m in kind of a jam.

my main purpose in life is to make one person happy: my amazing, sweet, wonderful boyfriend, msg. but a part of making him happy is being a person myself ... having my own things to do, my own opinions, my own friends, (my own orgasms!) ... you get the idea.

thing is, i've been hanging around on twitter lately for some of those reasons — friends, opinions, self-expression — and while there are tons of great people on there, some of those people, in the middle of otherwise being great, post political stuff that shows they believe really, really terrible things.

and it’s super-hard to see those people say such terrible, obviously wrong things and keep my lips zippedy-zipped about it. and yesterday one of them retweeted something and it made me mute them.

weirdly, it wasn’t even the worst thing i’d seen somebody tweet ... not by a long shot. it was just a stupid piece of manipulative garbage that should have made them think, “hmmm, what if maybe this is a garbage lie meme instead of a real, actual, truthful thing?” i mean, that’s a pretty critical thinking for dummies-level easy thing to stop and ask yourself, especially on twitter.

but because it was a retweet, i couldn’t even tell the person, hey, what if you maybe considered this might be fake? i could have commented on the original tweet, but that’s somebody i don’t know who doesn’t know me and may just be a russian troll anyway.

so i was frustrated about not being able to express myself and about not being able to try to help this otherwise great person be a little more skeptical about twitter b.s., and msg noticed and asked me what was up and i told him and then he got to fuming about the person's dumb tweet and its effect on me. which meant he was upset and i was upset and all for no good reason at all. that's not what i'm on twitter for even a little bit.

therefore ... mute!

i feel kinda weird-slash-guilty about muting this person who has said nice things about my tweets and pictures and stuff in the past, and more power to them for having their own opinions that float their own political boat in whatever direction they like, but i sail by a different set of stars than they do, and i just don't need to keep jumping out of my socks at their fog-horns going off when i can look around and pretty clearly see that i'm obviously not the one in a fog bank, they are.

anyway, that's about all i think i have to say right now (well, i had more to say, but blogger ate it). i welcome any non-jerkwad feedback on the subject.

toodles and doodles,
claire