Friend request gets us a death threat
(From Stu Maddux, director)
We add friends on our networking sites: MySpace and Facebook to help spread the word about the film and its message. We pick people who identify as gay or bi in the cities where we are screening. Right now I'm helping Bob add friends from Memphis and Raleigh, NC.
This was the response from Sgt. Franklin Smith, USMC of North Carolina .
"I hate Faggs
im in the fucking Marines and I fucking kill
and you fucking fuck with me at all in any way
i will fucking kill you, slice your balls off , slice your throat,
and put your balls down your throat
got it fucker?"
Wait, wait a minute. What just happened here?
I must have accidentally invited a straight, gay-bashing killer to be our friend.
How could this have possibly happened?
I guess its "fuckin" easy to do when his profile says he is interested in meeting women and men...
Let's just zoom in here a bit....here we go:
Still This can't be happening. He must have thought we were making a pass at him, right?
That would be pretty ludicrous.
Our profile makes it clear that we are only looking for friends, that Bob is in a relationship and that he's 82 years old.
Whatever he thought. What ever he believes, no one on the web deserves a death threat. Certainly not the elderly couple shown above. I'd really love to hear peoples' thoughts on THIS one.
We add friends on our networking sites: MySpace and Facebook to help spread the word about the film and its message. We pick people who identify as gay or bi in the cities where we are screening. Right now I'm helping Bob add friends from Memphis and Raleigh, NC.
This was the response from Sgt. Franklin Smith, USMC of North Carolina .
"I hate Faggs
im in the fucking Marines and I fucking kill
and you fucking fuck with me at all in any way
i will fucking kill you, slice your balls off , slice your throat,
and put your balls down your throat
got it fucker?"
Wait, wait a minute. What just happened here?
I must have accidentally invited a straight, gay-bashing killer to be our friend.
How could this have possibly happened?
I guess its "fuckin" easy to do when his profile says he is interested in meeting women and men...
Let's just zoom in here a bit....here we go:
Still This can't be happening. He must have thought we were making a pass at him, right?That would be pretty ludicrous.
Our profile makes it clear that we are only looking for friends, that Bob is in a relationship and that he's 82 years old.
Whatever he thought. What ever he believes, no one on the web deserves a death threat. Certainly not the elderly couple shown above. I'd really love to hear peoples' thoughts on THIS one.
posted by Stu Maddux at
11:31 AM
2 Comments:
I don't ever recall that kind of venomous response even fifty years ago. Sure they said it behind our back but not in writing to our face. Let's keep moving forward. There's too much work for us to do to help the kid who IS intimidated by this kind of hater. Did I use that word right, hater?
So sorry to hear you got this kind of response from one of my fellow North Carolinians.
Good luck with your documentary, it sounds great! :)
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