Having an Opinion and Being Mean are Two Different Things

I purposefully don’t go to message boards unless I read something I really enjoyed and I wonder what other people thought. I usually pass right over topics that I suspect are going to be heavy on negativity—I simply don’t care for the cheap shots that people make anonymously with little concern for their words.

Jerry and I discussed on this week’s podcast, some of the reactions of people online towards Adrianne Palicki’s newly released photo in the Wonder Woman costume. This of course is for David E. Kelley’s take on the Amazonian Princess that will appear next season on NBC.

What follows are some of the astonishingly horrible and mindlessly insensitive remarks that people made on the Entertainment Weekly’s website:

I don’t mind the costume but I wish she had a more athletic body. I think she is a beautiful girl and I know she’s very tall. But I don’t think she’s curvy or athletic looking enough. She looks too thin. And yes, her implants are distracting. Some implants are fine because they can look real. These don’t look real.

I’d always thought she was hot before. This has me rethinking that position. She looks like a drag queen.

This won’t even register one episode. The costume is awful. Can this girl at least do a few bicep curls? Her arms look like spaghetti noodles. The breasts are awful. Cheap cheap cheap.

How can people be so horrible?

You have this actress who just got the biggest job of her life and she should be totally happy about this exciting gig, and people anonymously—with no thought of the enormity of their words—blast her without a shred of mercy. As though she or her friends or her family would never see the comments.

I’m shocked at how inconsiderate and callous people, who I am sure think of themselves as good folks, are so willing to be. I know I’m not the first person to call out the online community for taking negativity to new lows—and I won’t be the last—but I just thought I’d say this:

If you don’t like something, then don’t like it. Opinions are wonderful things because they allow insight into differing perspectives. They foster conversation and help us to understand and appreciate one another better. Just keep it on the up and up.

‘Nuff said.