Good Grief!

ProvidenceMine is back!


So soon, you say?


Yep.


I have another thing that I want to rant about.


It's about the fans of a soap opera actress named Nancy Lee Grahn and her criticism over Viola Davis' speech on her Emmy win.


I know that this is old news, but so what.   This really isn't about Ms. Grahn or Ms. Davis.


It's about Ms. Grahn's fans.


You see, Nancy Lee Grahn didn't like Viola Davis' speech about her historic win being for all black actresses, because it seemed to her like it was ignoring all actresses ( I guess those who looked like her ) while elevating black actresses and took to her displeasure on Twitter.   Never mind the fact that Viola Davis is the very first black actress to win an Primetime Emmy for a Series ever.


Some people call it historic, while I call it pathetic.  Just like Cardi B's historic Grammy win ( first female rapper to win ) and just like Kathryn Bigalow's historic win ( first female director to win an Oscar ).  I call these wins pathetic because these wins took place very late in the game-the 21st Century, for crying out loud!  Why did these wins take so fucking long?!


But, I'm getting besides myself.


When Ms. Grahn tweeted her criticism of the speech, what is known as Black Twitter criticized right back to the point where Ms. Grahn ended up apologizing for her questionable tweets.


Well, not long after that Ms. Grahn's fans took to Twitter and defended her right to free speech, claiming that she said nothing wrong and that this was America and she could say "what she fucking wants."   Blah Blah Blah.  The defense of their soap queen went on and on.


Can we just stop, please?


Of course, Ms. Grahn can say "whatever the fuck she wants."   Of course, this is America.


That's the whole point.


Since when did people get so thin-skinned over criticism?  When you embrace free speech, you take the risk of being criticized.  That's the plain and simple fact.   Criticism is, in today's world, seen as censorship and it is not.   Clearly Ms. Grahn's fans don't know that.  Even Right-Wringers like Ann Coulter are very well aware that speaking her mind is risky.   She knows this, or she wouldn't be on so many debates and dialogues.   She has been proven wrong and made foolish quite a bit, but she keeps coming back.   There is even a picture of her backstage at some show somewhere holding up a handmade sign up to her chest that reads "Bring It On."


The price of free speech is being challenged.  Ms. Grahn knew that and paid the price.   If her fans are going to feign victimhood on behalf of a soap opera actress that they clearly live through, then maybe they shouldn't be on social media ( I left that joke years ago, albeit for different reasons ).


As a matter of fact, the only intelligent thing that one of her fans on Twitter tweeted was that they were going to stop dealing with Twitter.


Smart move.