I was much late to Betty Cracker’s thread this afternoon, but I couldn’t believe that she was referring to Wil Wheaton as that Wesley Crusher kid. Then I realized I might be the only one who remembers this:
The entire thread is typical Balloon-Juice during the Obama/Clinton primaries. John even weighed in:
Great. Because I want to spend the next 6 months being called a sexist for something someone else wrote.
Did I do something to piss you and Will off?
Do you think if we say his name enough times, he’ll come back and read the blog again?
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Man, this has really brought out the people who think calling me Wesley and telling me to shut up is clever. Awesome. I assume we’ll be upgrading to “your mother” jokes next?
John: I respect and admire you so much. I hope this doesn’t bring you any more grief than you usually get from the usual gang of haters.
I thought the psycho ex-girlfriend thing was hilarious because it’s about the *behavior* and not the gender. It seems like the Internets comes down to people who get that and people who are determined to read it as sexist.
As a comedy writer, I feel that the joke — which is about someone who refuses to accept that a relationship is over — works equally well if it’s a psycho ex-girlfriend or a psycho ex-boyfriend. I thought that was clear in the original post.
As for Hillary, as I said on my blog, I’ve gone from respecting her to despising her as I’ve watched her fall from a well-spoken, passionate candidate to just another lying, pandering, negative-campaigning, 9/11-exploiting fearmongering politician.
Anyway, thanks for the mention, Michael, and I’m sorry for any additional bullshit you have to deal with because of me, John.