My reactions from last night were clearly misunderstood.
1) My criticisms were not based on calling Rosie names, but mocking her by using her unique style of writing (poetry?) in the responses. It comes off poorly on your part, I think.
2) Paula Deen is not a Broadway/theatre professional. My point was that Rosie is a member of OUR community, and a treasured one. To mock her in reaction to her having a heart attack on a Broadway message board, I think, is classless. I had similar reactions when Arthur Laurents died and some responses on this board were inappropriate. By all means, have whatever opinion you have of a person, but there is a time and place to share those opinions. Users here are ruthlessly mean-spirited all the time, myself included. But I do not find this context to be appropriate.
Fair enough?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Why should it matter that people are "mocking" her on a Broadway message board? I mean, feel how you want to feel about what has been posted here, but the double standard you have compared to the reactions of Paula Deen's announcement is just ridiculous. The fact that the reactions posted here were posted to a Broadway message board doesn't render them any more or less appropriate.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
I don't feel that it is a double standard at all. I do think the venue in which we choose to communicate matters. In my opinion, our community should not publicly turn a thread discussing a severe health issue into an outlet to mock her.
It's not about "mocking her on a Broadway message board" in general. It's mocking her on a Broadway message board in response to her heart attack. That's low.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle