*gentle cat noises*

*claims to have problems with Sophie Hunter’s actions*

*makes fun of Sophie Hunter’s looks, dresses, make up, mannerism etc.*

*realises that this post is literally judging a woman for judging women*

*not that said woman is a good person*

*see how this works*

The point I was trying to make is the following: 

When asked, the Skeptics often claim they do not hate Sophie, they just have problems with her actions. (eg: lying on her CV, faking a pregnancy, being a drug addict/escort, making BC unhappy etc.) Instead of making an argument for these claims (or explaining why being a sexworker would make a woman unworthy of a man’s affection) they call Sophie a whore and compare her to a dog because of her looks. 

When they attacked BC’s publicist for “mismanaging” his affairs they criticized how she dresses. 

Richard III (the play) was historical propaganda for the Tudors, which means that Richard III (the King) was depicted in the most unflattering, negative way possible (probably influenced by Thomas More less than flattering portrayal). Historians have known for a loooong time that Richard III didn’t have a hunch, a limp, or a withered arm.

LMAO

I admit that fandom tends to be annoying. The simple reason is that fandoms are huge, and every fan has a different outlook on life, we have different prior experiences, education, sexuality, age etc. There is no way we would all magically agree on everything, and we want to talk about the same issues in different ways. Of course, we lose our tempers after a while.

BUT you don’t have to engage in every part of a fandom. It takes a lot of following/unfollowing but you can find that group of people, which makes you happy. I have never been forced to interact with people I did not want to. So, if the skeptics are annoyed by the nannies, our dear hateful friends can go and not look at their posts. No need to be nasty to anyone.

But in the past year the skeptics managed to normalize truly terrible behaviour. Now it’s totally okay to call someone a whore, a bitch, to be homophobic and transphobic just because that someone unintentionally hurt your feelings. And this is where the Skeptics phenomenon slowly destroys happy fandom life.

While the behaviour of the skeptics and their anons is disgusting and makes you turn your head, I think and think again and again that these bloggers do not have any power.  They think they do, that they can influence a person’s life from their words and ‘truths’ but they cannot.  No one has that power.  We can’t stop the tides moving or the sun setting.  They cannot make Benedict Cumberbatch despise his wife or leave her.  They cannot erase his son from history.  They cannot get him fired from films or make him out to be a horrible person to make themselves feel better.