A spiral of malice
Yikes. Lachrymose Tilly the former Waterstones employee is still publicly trying to ruin the life of Christina Dalcher.
And then sobbing Tilly finishes with “please don’t buy her books.”
What a piece of work.
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Yikes. Lachrymose Tilly the former Waterstones employee is still publicly trying to ruin the life of Christina Dalcher.
And then sobbing Tilly finishes with “please don’t buy her books.”
What a piece of work.
…unless you write a book I dislike, at which point both of those are definitely untrue. Teehee!
She’s a brilliant judge of character, too.
Dalcher has a doctorate in theoretical linguistics. Her books are dystopian SF thrillers. She writes from a radical feminist perspective. The only question now is which book to get first. Assuming Tilly hasn’t destroyed them all.
Seriously. Big shoutout to Tilly for introducing us.
What incentive does she have not to double down? Her actions may have cost her employment but given that new status doesn’t clout chasing make a lot of sense?
Well, the incentive of not being a 100% horrible person?
@Sackbut,
I just learned that she and I got our PhDs from the same place around the same time (I finished mine about a year after hers, though I took my sweet time), though mine is in applied linguistics. I don’t recall ever meeting her, though I did take a course in phonology with her advisor.
@OB #6:
That’s not much of an incentive; she’s trying to punish a nasty tranny hater who is obviously a 100% horrible person, so in doing so she’s seen as being virtuous by her in-group. She fails to grasp that she was shit canned for threatening to destroy merchandise and would probably be fine if she hadn’t done that. First and foremost it’s important to punish those who slight the in-group.
The trick is to teach people to be nice to the out group in hope that they’ll also be nice to you. We’re not particularly wired for it but given norms around prisoner treatment in the Napoleonic wars it certainly can be done (not consistently, obviously, but it was common).
Thing is, I doubt Silly Tilly would have even been sacked if it she had just been an ordinary Waterstones employee tweeting what she tweeted (or x-ing what she x-ed). But there she is, drawing attention to herself, plastering her face and her connection to a particular store all over social media and trying really hard to become some sort of celebrity through her book influencer brand, and it makes it her look like some sort of official spokesperson. Of course they sacked her, she’s making them look bad.