{"id":62142,"date":"2015-04-16T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=62142"},"modified":"2015-04-16T23:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:42:39","slug":"unnecessary-roughness-how-dumb-was-britt-mchenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2015\/04\/16\/unnecessary-roughness-how-dumb-was-britt-mchenry\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary Roughness: How Dumb was Britt McHenry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Image Keith Allison via WikimediaCommons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Saw people talking about this story on Twitter<\/strong>, and didn\u2019t think much about it; some woman had a non-work-related rant and got suspended for a week from her job? I tossed off a joke about \u201cwimmen being kept in line\u201d or something and forgot about it, until I visited Hot Air<\/a> and actually saw the video.<\/p>\n

Holy Smokes!<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey, I understand people who are in stressful situations not putting their best self forward \u2014 it happens to all of us. But Britt McHenry is just unnecessarily nasty and personal \u2014 and embarrassingly elitist \u2014\u00a0as she goes after the attendant who is helping her. <\/p>\n

McHenry apparently feels that having a college degree \u2014 like so many millions of Americans \u2014 means she\u2019s a special snowflake, a member of the credentialed gentry entitled to berate the yahoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She seems like the sorority girl from hell, especially when, after castigating the clerk for being insufficiently educated, she takes shots at her appearance, as well. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But you know what the worst part of it is?<\/strong> There is a moment in the video, near the start, where \u2014 after condescendingly telling the clerk, \u201cI\u2019m in the news, sweetheart; I will f*ing sue this place\u2026\u201d \u2014 the clerk responds, \u201cokay, well that\u2019s fine, then I\u2019ll tell you you\u2019re on video, so be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n

McHenry looks up at the camera. She knows she is being filmed. <\/p>\n

Let that sink in. The woman she is treating like dirt beneath her feet goes to the trouble to give a celebrity \u2014 an \u201cimportant person\u201d in an internet-informed \u201cgotcha\u201d world \u2014 a generous heads up that there is a camera on her.<\/p>\n

And the vapid celebrity \u2014 who is in the news, sweetheart<\/em>, so you\u2019d think she\u2019d have a clue about cameras and such \u2014 looks right up at the camera. Then she just continues to indulge her uppity wrath.<\/p>\n

\u201cYep, that\u2019s all you care about, is just taking people\u2019s money,\u201d McHenry says. \u201cWith no education, no skillset, just wanted to clarify that. \u2026\u00a0Do you feel good about your job? So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing? Why, cause I have a brain and you don\u2019t?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well you sure weren\u2019t using it, sweetheart<\/em>.<\/strong> There are two women in that video. One of them had enough brains and consideration to warn the other that a bit of self-awareness might be wise. <\/p>\n

And one of them was very, very stupid. Even if the clerk\u2019s edited-out remarks were less than wonderful, she knew there was a camera running. <\/p>\n

Then again, we\u2019re all stupid sometimes. But cameras are tiny and they are everywhere, now, so perhaps we should all be a little more self-aware. As Unk is warned in Vonnegut\u2019s Sirens of Titan<\/a>, \u201cYou can\u2019t tell by looking who has one, so be sweet to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, no matter what the initial motivation for self-preservation may have started it, perhaps all of that acting-as-if will rub off on us, and we\u2019ll all treat each other just a little better. <\/p>\n

Because how we behave toward each other is another way we tell them, \u201cit is good that you exist.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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