Ha ha ha! I know who you're talking about! Tessa Schlesinger. She blocked me last year and I was genuinely mystified why. I had a small exchange with her but I'd call it polite, however, she got mad that I disagreed with her on some minor point. No flaming, no vulgar words, no sarcasm - I thought it was a comfortable exchange with someon…
Ha ha ha! I know who you're talking about! Tessa Schlesinger. She blocked me last year and I was genuinely mystified why. I had a small exchange with her but I'd call it polite, however, she got mad that I disagreed with her on some minor point. No flaming, no vulgar words, no sarcasm - I thought it was a comfortable exchange with someone I was eye-to-eye on in some cases, but she blocked me. She's for sure quite humourless and takes herself *way* too seriously. Since I couldn't tag her, I don't know if she ever found out the article I'd commented on that resulted in her blocking me, inspired an article by me she probably would have liked. I mentioned her name but after I reproduced it on my blog after getting kicked off Medium I took it out.
I guess she's now among the more notoriously crackpot writers on Medium - a real shame as all three of these writers used to be good. I followed Umair for awhile until he started sounding like the loons on the street arguing with the voices in their heads, and I used to love Jessica Wildfire until she started going down 'the world is ending' rabbithole. I continued to read her a bit because I'd been gone from the US over fifteen years at that point and I'm never sure whether my fucked-up view of the US is because I rely on the news too much and don't live there, or whether the Americans still there who say it's not all that bad are merely in the eye of the storm. I still haven't figured that out, but I'm worried about my brother and his wife retiring to North Carolina in a few more years. I really don't think they've thought this thing through.
Anyway... plenty of crackpots on Medium now, including, unfortunately, formerly really good writers. And yes, it's juicing narcissism big-time. I guess Tessa has slipped some since I left. It's a shame.
Nicole, I figured the same thing. Tessa has a mean streak in her and hunts for people to practice her mean upon. Looks like Steve QJ was her latest prey.
Agreed about Umair. For a while I thought he was refreshingly candid and direct, they he got wearisome. I think he's more truthful than 90% of the people who write about the same issues but reading too much Umair is like eating Hamburger Helper for a week. I've never run into the other two.
I left Tizathy in 2010 and it seems more and more like a foreign country. I doubtt I could handle the compulsiveness of the woke.
The Hamburger Helper analogy is one I keep in reserve because it's so potent. When I discovered the stuff I thought it was great, and once in a month it really is. But on the third day I had to give it to the dogs.
Ha ha ha! I know who you're talking about! Tessa Schlesinger. She blocked me last year and I was genuinely mystified why. I had a small exchange with her but I'd call it polite, however, she got mad that I disagreed with her on some minor point. No flaming, no vulgar words, no sarcasm - I thought it was a comfortable exchange with someone I was eye-to-eye on in some cases, but she blocked me. She's for sure quite humourless and takes herself *way* too seriously. Since I couldn't tag her, I don't know if she ever found out the article I'd commented on that resulted in her blocking me, inspired an article by me she probably would have liked. I mentioned her name but after I reproduced it on my blog after getting kicked off Medium I took it out.
I guess she's now among the more notoriously crackpot writers on Medium - a real shame as all three of these writers used to be good. I followed Umair for awhile until he started sounding like the loons on the street arguing with the voices in their heads, and I used to love Jessica Wildfire until she started going down 'the world is ending' rabbithole. I continued to read her a bit because I'd been gone from the US over fifteen years at that point and I'm never sure whether my fucked-up view of the US is because I rely on the news too much and don't live there, or whether the Americans still there who say it's not all that bad are merely in the eye of the storm. I still haven't figured that out, but I'm worried about my brother and his wife retiring to North Carolina in a few more years. I really don't think they've thought this thing through.
Anyway... plenty of crackpots on Medium now, including, unfortunately, formerly really good writers. And yes, it's juicing narcissism big-time. I guess Tessa has slipped some since I left. It's a shame.
Nicole, I figured the same thing. Tessa has a mean streak in her and hunts for people to practice her mean upon. Looks like Steve QJ was her latest prey.
Agreed about Umair. For a while I thought he was refreshingly candid and direct, they he got wearisome. I think he's more truthful than 90% of the people who write about the same issues but reading too much Umair is like eating Hamburger Helper for a week. I've never run into the other two.
I left Tizathy in 2010 and it seems more and more like a foreign country. I doubtt I could handle the compulsiveness of the woke.
They can write well, but as you wrote, the same story every day becomes a squeaking ceiling fan
The Hamburger Helper analogy is one I keep in reserve because it's so potent. When I discovered the stuff I thought it was great, and once in a month it really is. But on the third day I had to give it to the dogs.