Do I really want the CalgalShe Who Shall Not Be Named explained?
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Juliebird - Jul 28, 2009 5:26:53 pm PDT #1108 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
DavidS - Jul 28, 2009 5:35:23 pm PDT #1109 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do I really want the Calgal explained?
Quit saying her name!
JZ - Jul 28, 2009 5:42:19 pm PDT #1110 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Do I really want the ... explained?
Waaaaay back in the Pleistocene Era, there was Salon, and Table Talk, and there was She Who Shall Not Be Named, who was (and, apparently, still is) an extremely voluble and, at first, superficially charming poster, who became more and more bent as time went on. She developed hate-ons for various people and derailed several previously thoughtful threads on at least one sub-board that numerous people had put massive amounts of time and effort and brutal self-examination into, threads that had the potential to form real rich communities (thank God she never went near Buffy). And somewhere around Table Talk's switchover from free to pay, she did a flounce-off to her own private special community, populated mostly by her sycophants, where, judging from the links provided in the comments on the WaPo story, she's been growing more and more unhinged in her splendid isolation.
Toxic. Cruel. A blight on the internets.
Juliebird - Jul 28, 2009 5:51:30 pm PDT #1111 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Damn.
Um.
Weddings! Dancing in the aisles! No dead animals in my apartment for weeks and weeks!
erikaj - Jul 28, 2009 6:28:30 pm PDT #1112 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Dude, I tried. But she pushed me till I hated her too.
P.M. Marc - Jul 28, 2009 6:59:09 pm PDT #1113 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
She who is not to be named is SERIOUSLY EVIL.
I'm not at all shocked that she's editing her vile spewings. I twitch at the thought of her. (I lurked over at TPW for a while a few years ago, and man, she was batshit. Wonder if the threads where she mocked old Table Talkers are still up.)
Burrell - Jul 28, 2009 7:35:20 pm PDT #1114 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Whoa. I have not thought of that woman in years. Weird. She was just a wildly toxic presence.
beth b - Jul 28, 2009 7:37:17 pm PDT #1115 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I had erased She Who Shall Not Be Named from my memory. I think I ran into her on dieting/health forums.
And she had this amazing ability to sound reasonable every so often and then just jump off the bridge out of reality.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2009 7:39:55 pm PDT #1116 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She has displayed a terrifying ability to hone in on anywhere on the intarwebs her name is called, but I'm sure we're too far under the radar and unimportant to rate for her, especially now.
Burrell - Jul 28, 2009 7:44:36 pm PDT #1117 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My only personal interaction with her was when she came into the TTC (Trying to Conceive) forums and tried to taunt us by asking us why the forum was only for women trying to get pregnant, not those who found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy and wishing to abort. To find out she's exactly the same in person? And that she is planning on becoming a teacher?!? Oy.