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Sunday, 11 May 2008 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosiedoesJust to get my side of the story out before this all turns into drama, but yes, I just defriended ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marysiak.
I think that the request for people to pay for her to get laser surgery is frankly out of order and seeing people going ahead and doing so is just... sickening for me.
This is not an operation she's in desperate need of. She just doesn't want to wear contacts or glasses anymore. It's like asking your flist to buy you a yearly travelcard because you can't be bothered to walk (even though you could). I have people on my flist who have been in utterly desperate situations and never dreamed of asking for help, let alone for something they want rather than need.
Right now, so soon after the crisis in Burma/Myanmar, when people are truly suffering and need all the help they can get, it seems in bad taste generally to ask for something that can be done without. In fact, I find asking people to pay for something that is based on preference, rather than critical necessity, pretty shameful. And selfish.
"I want this and I expect my friends to pay for it for me."
That's just not right, in my book.
So, there you have it. I couldn't give much of a fuck if other people defriend me because of this view - that's your prerogative. I give what I can afford to the people who need it in order to survive, to the people who have nothing because of where they live in the world, or the environment they live in, not to people who expect hand outs because they're too impatient to wait and save for themselves.
marysiak.I think that the request for people to pay for her to get laser surgery is frankly out of order and seeing people going ahead and doing so is just... sickening for me.
This is not an operation she's in desperate need of. She just doesn't want to wear contacts or glasses anymore. It's like asking your flist to buy you a yearly travelcard because you can't be bothered to walk (even though you could). I have people on my flist who have been in utterly desperate situations and never dreamed of asking for help, let alone for something they want rather than need.
Right now, so soon after the crisis in Burma/Myanmar, when people are truly suffering and need all the help they can get, it seems in bad taste generally to ask for something that can be done without. In fact, I find asking people to pay for something that is based on preference, rather than critical necessity, pretty shameful. And selfish.
"I want this and I expect my friends to pay for it for me."
That's just not right, in my book.
So, there you have it. I couldn't give much of a fuck if other people defriend me because of this view - that's your prerogative. I give what I can afford to the people who need it in order to survive, to the people who have nothing because of where they live in the world, or the environment they live in, not to people who expect hand outs because they're too impatient to wait and save for themselves.
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on 2008-05-11 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-05-12 12:00 am (UTC)That's so ridiculous. I'd completely love to ask people for random money all the time. I mean, you've given me money on numerous occasions just to help me pay my bills and I definitely took it, which.. Is more than a little humbling and just.. Probably wrong of me.
But.. She's acting like she's being generous about it. She's saying "Oh! If you give me 1000 pounds, then I will contribute 1000 dollars of my own money!" Which would be awesome if she wasn't contributing her own money to her appearance. She's trying to make it sound like she's doing others a favor.
Where is the most public place you can send screen caps of this post so everyone can make fun of her.
I wish people cared about her 'acting career" so I could post this shit on ONTD.
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on 2008-05-12 12:02 am (UTC)