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You're asking her to let go of her dreams!

tazber said: "I thought this would all be over by now, but Patti apparently has more passion about this than I thought (or is healthy)."

Patti Murin ‏@PattiMurin  4h4 hours ago

@LarryIsOKeefe @chrissyteigen GOD NO!!! I mean, I DO have a lot of time on my hands now....

She's obviously making the most of it.

I'm glad the Broadway community can once again focus on a pressing matter affecting the American stage actor.

tazber said: "I know, but it had to officially said, no?

I thought this would all be over by now, but Patti apparently has more passion about this than I thought (or is healthy).

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she is unemployed now. she probably has a ton of time on her hands. 

Wait, Craig is alive?

Craig said: "Why some people are taking this so personally is beyond me."

The same thing crossed my mind. In reading the responses made by some members it does seem they are taking this as a personal affront.

EDIT: But on the other side of that coin some are just having fun with it and being harmlessly snarky about it. 

Updated On: 3/11/16 at 03:42 PM

Does anyone else think Patti thinks this about herself?

Theater_Nerd said: "Craig said: "Why some people are taking this so personally is beyond me."

The same thing crossed my mind. In reading the responses made by some members it does seem they are taking this as a personal affront.

EDIT: But on the other side of that coin some are just having fun with it and being harmlessly snarky about it. "

Personally, I just love the irony inherent in her hypocrisy. This whole thing is just a study of "Pot, meet Kettle".

I want to upvote this.

I don't take her comments personally (I am not in the habit of attacking people or posting cruel things for amusement and have blocked the user that i find to do so most often). But i do find the comments hypocritical on her part (her own twitter feed is full of her saying the same kinds of things about television shows and the real people who perform on them that she is decrying when it comes to other people commenting on theatre and the people who perform in theatre).  

Her comments are also problematic because they call for collective punishment (remove the boards from the website altogether) for individual (perceived) transgressions.  Not unlike Trump calling for a wall between the US and Mexico because one undocumented immigrant from Mexico is a rapist.  It is not a reasonable position to take in a free society (neither her position nor Trump's).  And the transgressions themselves are quite questionable.  Aside from the one blatant one about Chad Kimball, her other examples included someone politely pointing out the obvious reality that lots of stuff gets said on the internet and other examples where people praised her, but not to a standard that she considers to be sufficient. 

Then there is the obvious narcissism and selfishness in calling for the abolition of something that serves so many purposes for so many people because she herself doesn't consider to serve a useful purpose in her life.  So 100's or 1000's of people use the boards to ask and answer questions, gather information, celebrate shows that they love and discover new shows and performers, and she thinks that her desire to never be tempted to go reading insufficiently-effusive praise about herself should take precedence over the desire of so many other people to use the boards in such a wide variety of ways that in most cases have nothing to do with her.  

In other words, we are not taking her posts personally, but we find them offensive to a free society in a variety of ways.  And as others and I have previously pointed out, they are probably also counter-productive to her own interests; I bought a ticket to her now-cancelled show because i heard about it on the boards.  The producers hadn't been advertising it much, and I would not have known about it if i hadn't heard about it on the boards.  Is it really wise to call for the shutting-down of a part of a website that increases ticket sales in the business that she works in?  It just makes no sense on any level.

This story made the NY Times?? 

(Sorry Lizzie I can't bring myself to post a link)

Why did Will Chase put the word "antiquated" in quotes in his tweet? Is that like the time Doreen at my work hung up a sign in the break room asking us to "please" clean the microwave after every use?