batshit crazy small group of hardcore haters on twitter.
Here is the original tweet. You can click to see the picture.
img.ly/nkOaOh, hafta make u guess who just HAD to try on my heels that I just unpacked from my bag tonight… Starts w an ‘M’! GN
— Kate Gosselin (@Kateplusmy8) September 15, 2012
Earlier this week, Kate participated in a charity auction and the hate tweeters went after the organizers of the auction. What were they upset about? I suppose it was because she was there, or maybe just because she exists. The real reason is they don’t like Kate and instead of ignoring her, they want to see her ruined. Seems they feel that if they harass anyone connected with Kate she will get fewer offers. However, this time it worked out great for the organization, as they got TONS of publicity that they probably wouldn’t have gotten.
Kate Gosselin Participates in Charity Auction just isn’t much of a headline. Kate Gosselin Participates In Charity Auction and Twitter Haters Go Wild is a much better headline.
For those of us who have been keen observers of the Gosselin Saga we have seen this sort of thing before. Over and over and over again. Kate can’t tweet a picture of a school lunch without the small bunch of hardcore haters threatening to call CPS over the juice box. I am pretty sure the PA CPS has a whole file of Gosselin Juice Box complaints.
It gets to the point where it’s not about agreeing or disagreeing with her tweeting a picture of a child that shows legs and knees. It’s more about how much harassment and bullying does one deserve over tweeting an innocent picture of your kid that some folks twist to be something it wasn’t intended to be.
Realistically, even if you feel the picture is exploitive, what good does it do to draw attention to it? When I last checked Google Alerts, the story had been picked up by over 15 media outlets, some of them international. That’s way more coverage than it would have received normally. And the story was not the tweet itself, but the haters’ reaction to it.
Off to run sprints… How abt I tweet a pic of my kids from the knees down inSNEAKERS??!!Would I b bullied for that 2? #seehowsillyuare?
— Kate Gosselin (@Kateplusmy8) September 15, 2012
Now it’s your turn to weigh in. What do you think? Do you think the picture is outrageous so she gets what she gets? Do you think the picture is harmless and it’s much ado about nothing? Or does your opinion fall somewhere in between? Let us know.
Please note any over-the-top comments will be deleted as usual. It’s a game we just aren’t willing to play.
Does Chicken Little get any rest EVER.
So bazaar.
Whenever I think the crazies can’t go any lower I find I’m wrong.
This it what they most enjoy.
I think if the haters keep this BS up Kate is going to leave twitter. media should not draw attention to their bullying
Excellent post!! Thanks to the group of hardcore haters on Twitter, that tweet received more publicity than it would have. Had the haters not gone crazy, I would be willing to bet, none of the tabloids, or any other publication, would have picked it up. This part seems to sum up their intense hatred for Kate “…….just because she exists.”
If you read around, the haters do the same thing everyday, with their same old, same old. At least Kate keeps them off the streets and the back alleys if they are sitting on twitter. Much safer world for all involved. Just another gate for them to talk about.
The haters continue to prove that they ARE batshit crazy. No other way to put it.
What folks are forgetting is: THESE ARE “FRIENDS” OF JON GOSSELIN, BY HIS OWN WORDS ON TWITTER IN THE PAST.
One has to wonder why HE won’t ask his “friends” to stop sexualizing his kids with the nasty comments they keep making about his kids?
Things that make you go, “Hmmmm…”
I see nothing wrong with the photo. What is wrong is the haters trying to make it perverted. They have dirty minds. I see they are referring to Kate’s “100,000” followers, but when she does well, in their sick minds, she only has “six”. The others are socks. Should we call them all liars?
Paige: I hope that Kate never leaves Twitter. The haters would like to see her do so; then they could take the credit for it. I would hate to have to be the ones doing the detoxing to the haters when, or, if that ever happens. Their withdrawal pains would not be something that I would want to see or hear.
I like keeping up with Kate and the kids via her Twitter and her website. I do not think that she knew that her website would take so much time to maintain.
Again, I have a daughter and a granddaughter, and I see nothing wrong with the photo. Both have worn my shoes.
Poor Kate: She is so not relevant any more!!! Only 15+ outlets have picked this up so far. Most of the comments have been positive; even from the ones on the fence and some of the haters.
Two positive events in one week. No wonder the haters are spewing their vile.
CJ: They would turn on Jon like a pack of wolves.
Rosemary,
Jon is a coward, this shows he would never step up to protect his children. How sad that someday they will see all of this. He’s not a Father, he’s a wimp.
These are the same people who swear Jon has 50/50 custody and that the kids are going to eventually live with him all the time!
The photo of the shoes was nothing, but it has turned into something because the same few who accuse Kate of everything they can have turned it into something. It’s time for Kate to take legal action against the gang on Twitter. They want more than anything for Kate to leave Twitter. They are the ones who have broken every rule in the book. The whole thing makes me sick.
Does Chicken Little get any rest EVER. ~Deborah
O,LOL. That’s funny Deb and accurate.
It was an innocent pic.
Are we supposed to lock our daughters away because their bodies are naturally growing and changing? For some, it can begin early, that doesn’t change the fact that they are still little girls wanting to do little kid things.
I wish the tabs that ran the story on the fashion show and the pic of Mady’s legs, would point out that it’s just that core group of khaters who hang on Kate’s twitter day and night, instead of making it sound like an impromptu group who became outraged.
I find it rather ironic that one of those screaming the loudest is the same woman who ran all over the Internet begging for graphic birth videos to appeal to the birth fetish pervs subscribing to her site. Really? Which is more exploitive? Posting a pic of your kid wearing your heels or birth videos of African genital mutilation victims? That’s one’s a no brainer for me…
Of course the haters are going to make a big deal about this. It’s just too bad that the media doesn’t ignore their craziness. But on the other hand, maybe it will show a few more people just how ridiculous the haters are, and they’ll be taken down a peg or two. I know they’ll never give up completely, but I’m hoping that some talk show like the View or the Talk will address this (the same way it was addressed on one of the shows when Jessica Simpson posted a picture of her baby wearing a bikini) and the women on these shows will tell the haters to get a life and laugh at how ridiculous they are, on national tv. That will make a few hater heads explode!
Thanks Lily!,
Did hater nation really surprise anyone ?
We’ve seen it coming for a long time, children be damned.
It doesn’t matter how innocent the picture is.
Most of the time I can look at twitter no big deal, the fools are just needing their fix be it attention or the rush they get from belittling and degrading Kate but now they have turned on the kids.
They nasty way PMK talked about the child’s pose made me feel sad and sick to my stomach. Its hard for me to believe they even have daughters of their own.
I don’t believe Kate would have taken the picture of M. and tweeted it without M’s Ok.
I hope my hunch is right and M. enjoys being in the spotlight.
Looking at the photo again, I think one shoe is on Kate and the other on Mady.
I am sitting in the chair at the hairdresser right now, but when I get home I have something to share with you from today’s NY Times.
If anyone has access to this morning’s NY Times, look at page 4 in the Style section. In the weekly “On the Street” photo montage, there are 40+ photos of SHOES and LEGS of people on the street, not very different from what Kate posted the other night. Is anyone screaming porn? I think not.
I find it a little disturbing that the feral pack of haters on twitter would have the thoughts in the first place. They really do reach for anything to talk about.
Shoe models can make good money! LOL!!
Haters can take any action done by Kate and turn it into a hateful comment. For instance if Kate pets her dog, they might say, Kate has no friends, the only one who can stand to be around her is Shoka and it’s only because he’s afraid she wont feed him otherwise. Or some other ridiculous statement. Sadly because they see Mady as mini Kate she’s getting the heat too. Recently Kate shared a cute little poem she wrote about the hair salon..basically it is wrong for her to enjoy the salon so much. I think it’s sad that the media feeds off of and makes money on the hate. I know one time I felt so bad that her reply to my tweet opened up the hate gates and became the topic of a radar online article. Of course as long as its what people read, they will print it. The fact that they seem so desperate for something to print isn’t all bad because it means she stays relevant
Mary I agree. The ROL story should have questioned why these haters first thought was sexual over a picture from the knees down. Those women are perverts and need to be banned from twitter.
SAMESAMSAMESAME
Potty training gate, chicken gate, marathon gate, body guard gate, boobjob gate, toilet paper gate, coquettish red cross picture gate and now, high heel gate
Common denominator? Drama queen haters overly invested in all things Kate Gosselin. They keep her relevant so they have something to bitch about every day. So silly.
I do however notice that most rationale tweeters and commenters (even on ROL) are more supportive and questioning what the big deal is. This is a normal ‘rite of passion’ for every little girl. They blow it up by fear mongering about pedophiles. So ironic that some of those precious daily tweeters that obsess over Kate’s every mood have also posted their own children’s pictures and broadcast their whereabouts or vacation plans. Samesamesamesame
I think everything about all of this is stupid.
When the show was on the air some of these same women used terms like “money shot” and “writhing” to describe an interview with a bored little girl laying on the floor. They saw pedophiles in every crew member. Nothing surprises me from this group.
I love the stock photo!
I love that Kate goes on living her life. She never has to do any PR for an event or appearance, the haters donut for her at a level no 1 person could ever achieve, thrusting her into the spotlight all the while claiming she seeks attention. She clearly does NOT have to seek attention, she is showered with it daily. Funny and sad at the same time.
Donut=do it. But I’d love a donut!
Ann-I have to wonder about the character of anyone who would tell tails about children in that manner, all the focus on pedophilia while specializing children is a HUGE red flag.
Marnie, you got it and it goes on and on and on ToysRUsgate, Milkgate, spoiled lunchgate, sickgate, Jongate, Michelle Obamagate, doggate, nannygate,
I give up on this auto correct! Specializing=sexualizing
This is beyond ridiculous. Just like the “coquettish” photo of Kate in the Red Cross blanket. These haters are so insane, they need to invent a new word to describe them. I’m glad Kate doesn’t let this stupid crap get to her, but it’s too bad she has to deal with it at all.
I hope making yourself you look totally ignorant is what the haters were going for because people sure are coming out from all over to say how ridiculous this attack is and showing support for Kate.
I noticed that BH and when I said that on twitter out came the sock accounts.
So many coming out in support of Kate.
When are the crazies that haunt Kate going to get a life? It has been years now and they are still going at it. Sick, sick people.
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Since Jon no longer has to support his eight children,one would think he’d call off the dogs.
CJ, Jon has NO CLUE how to do the RIGHT THING by his children.
I used to think Jon could call them off. But, after he did the People article, they just lied to themselves and said Jon said “Kate’s a mom”, instead of what the article and every other media article printed that he said “Kate’s a good mom.”
They don’t want to give up their fun social groups of hatred.
I wish Jon and Kate would make a public statement, but it would just add to the nasty that those posters are saying. Let them rant, at least if they are shameing themselves on twitter, they are leaving their families alone from their wrath. Jon should be ashamed of himself to allow this stuff to be said about his daughter.
Wearing Mom’s or G-mom’s heels is a rite of passage for most girls even many of the tomboyish ones. My 4 girls and my niece are very often in either my closet or their Grammy’s and more often than not when we are looking for a particular pair of heels we have to trek out to the playhouse. They actually wear them more than I, so I call sour grapes on all the haters and much ado about nothing.
I am surprised, it certainly seems that this has brought some support for Kate. Just tweeters, so I don’t think there’s anyway to judge statistically. But, it’s nice to see new people reacting to this type of ridiculousness. Reminds me of when they invaded the DWTS boards and the reg DWTS fans were taken aback by the craziness of it all.
Patsy,
I looked at the shoes!! What did you look at?
Small foot in a shoe? I’ve seen more on a TV show with kids doing much worse. Nail polish on toes, guess I need to tell my neighbor girls never to that again, they are 7 and 9 and love to have mani-peds with Mom. Sorry, I looked at the shoes, never even thought anything to buzz about.
Snickers,
I only saw a girl trying on her mothers shoes. because that’s all it is, most young girls do. Mady was probably very excited about the pretty shoes. I can’t believe the twitter critics had no consideration for her. The comments made on twitter were over the top & vulgar and if anything attracted a pedo it’d be the vile and constant remarks by the so called child advocates.
This is changing the subject but I’d like to hear what others think.
If you were going to book an inspirational speaker for your church would you book someone that cried poor?
Who or how would that inspire or motivate ?
Does anyone but me wonder if you give up your critical thinking skills when you sign up to be a non fan/hater?
IMO, Kate only cried poor when she was poor. If all she charged churches was a VOLUNTARY love offering for the number of people they packed in to see her, the churches got off cheap. All speakers charge fees. The haters can’t seem to grasp that. Kate talked about being poor when she was poor. She talked about the blessing received from the kindness of strangers and from her faith that everything would work out. I’m so sick of hearing that Kate begged and is a grifter. She is no different than any of the other reality TV people who make public experiences. Do the haters think she was supposed to make all appearances for free? I already know the answer to that.
Deb, I think what was inspirational about Kate’s speaking engagements was that she got by on her faith. I agree with you about critical speaking skills. Hater’s don’t have ’em!
BTW, I still think re the shoes that the left foot is Kate’s.. the one with the purple toenails.. and the right one is Mady’s. The shoe is too large on the right foot.
Deborah: You cannot give up something that you did not have. Unfortunately, I went to school with people that could not think or reason for themselves.
Of course Judy, People wanted her hear Jon & Kate tell their story, it was uplifting. I’m sure they talked about their early struggles, their fears, how they over came.
I imagine the Duggers have tons of money but they still make themselves available for church speaking engagements. They won’t even state the amount they require, you have to contact them to find out.
http://premierespeakers.com/christian/the_duggars
It Jon & Kate’s story was not ‘in demand’ they wouldn’t have been invited to speak. People wouldn’t sign up for it and it wouldn’t get off the ground.
I understand some speakers ask up to 100,000. to make an appearance.
I don’t believe anyone would be inspired to hear anyone crying about how poor they are now.
Maybe how little they once had, there struggles, how their faith was tested. So many things but now how little they have now. For crap sake they had a tv show, they were also getting paid to speak.
Haters are embarrassing.
You mean people wanted to see J&K and they paid them a fee to come and speak?? Oh, I can’t go along w/that. 😉 (total sarcasm)
LOL LILY, I feel like you deserve a funny reply but I just read 2 minutes of their tweets and my brain went to sleep.
Hee hee, been there, done that BlogHawg.
Deborah, Jon is broke, so maybe his supporters will want to hear him whine about not wanting to work, how he blew through thousands of dollars, how he doesn’t pay child support,(but is a wonderful father), how he has gone through women like most men go through shoes, how he loves to continue to bash the mother of his children, how he has no ambition, how he doesn’t plan on providing for his children because he has to pay rent, etc. Why aren’t those that think Jon is great not helping him by listening to his “inspirational” story. There are plenty of bars for he and his follows to book.
Greetings to all after a long absence. I googled ‘Kate Gosselin at the Emmys” and a link here. Do y’all mean to tell me that Sharla/Marla/Twarla or whatever her name is/was and the gwoppers are STILL going at it?????
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha … gotta admire their “resolve” I guess.
WOW could you be the real Iwhyawil? The funniest gal in the gosselin world? Yup they are all still at it. I think it’s boobgate brought up for the 99999999999th time!
ihyawli,
Oh Lordy Be!! LOL. You must come back and give us a few laughs, take on all the new gates.
Is that you Iwhyawli ?
You have been sorely missed.
iwhyawli it has been too long!!
Hi – question for Happily Anonymous says:
September 16, 2012 at 6:17 am
Can you post a link to the article or blog post you’re referencing. I’m doing some research and would appreciate the help.
Thanks!