Now Elan is all pissed off at people who don’t think his bullying of a somewhat rude passenger was the wittiest and most richly-deserved schooling ever.
elan gale @theyearofelan
My wife’s dog’s friend knows a guy who saw a guy who knew Diane and he also knows the guy who anonymously posted stuff about her health
So last night I met the dude who saw the guy who knew a man who wrote the stuff on the message board and then I WROTE AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT
Oh, I saw someone write an article about a thing my dog’s wife’s friend saw on a message board and I AM ENRAGED
I have poorly thought out opinions about things I skimmed through on the internet! I demand answers! I demand justice!
[and one more not in the screengrab]
Everyone feels one way! I AM SMART AND MUST FEEL ANOTHER WAY IMMEDIATELY!
It’s funny how easily one could just turn that line of thinking around on him:
Oh, I saw some woman on my flight being crabby about the delay so I KNEW she’s a horrible entitled bitch and I had to FIX HER IMMEDIATELY
Also:
Everyone feels that bullying strangers into better behavior is just bullying. I AM SMART AND MUST FEEL ANOTHER WAY IMMEDIATELY!
So easily.
Update some hours later. More bitter tweets about how misunderstood Elan is.
elan gale @theyearofelan
My pledge: if you end up sitting next to me on a plane for the next year, and you are nice, I promise that I will offer to buy you a drink
[that one got 129 retweets and 753 favorites]
Just read somewhere that Diane was the last remaining unicorn and was just trying to get back to repopulate her home planet
Please make sure to include the new Diane was a unicorn evidence in all future media. Seems viable. Someone said it
In other words the cancer claim may be bogus. Sure, it may. The bullying was still bullying, even if Diane is as healthy as a mountaineer.
I have a sinking feeling that this reality-show producing douchebag is pitching networks with a show about him (perhaps it can be called “Brave Hero”), and an even more sinking feeling that someone’s going to buy it.
I had never heard of Elan Gale before this incident. I will be quite happy if I never hear his name again. This opinion in no way depends on whether we grant Diane a pass due to mitigating circumstances.
I think it’s past time for daddy to take the twitter account awaaaaaaayyyyyy!
Certain people do not hold Elan in the same high regard with which he holds himself. Some of these people even think his treatment of Dianne was not justified or even clever. Elan will hold his breath until these people apologize for not recognizing his sheer awesomeness.
He’s got new resentful tweets.
What’s sad is that he has so many people taking his side (or at least spending the vast majority of their concern on criticizing Diane), but that’s not enough for him.
Yeah… he’s definitely the bigger asshat in this situation.
(I still say she was not justified in resorting to violence.)
I’m not sure. Normally I really hate the convention (though I’m not sure it really is a convention now) that women get to slap men, because it means women get to slap men without risk. That’s not fair.
But after all that goading and getting in her face? Not sure.
Ophelia (#8)
Nope, it’s not right. Even if I’d probably do the same myself, it’s still not right.
I’m sure, if I were in a similar situation, I’d be tempted to lash out physically.
But regardless of the provocation, there was no need to respond with violence. (Short of, you know, defending against someone doing, or trying to do violence to her.*)
*And even then, it’s better to resolve the situation as peacefully as possible.
Yeah. You’re right.
I was basically going to say what Eamon said @2, so instead I’ll just marvel at the fact that this Gale fellow actually has fans.
Eamon/#2:
So very that.
Bruce/#12:
… and that, too.
I predict a surge in the sale of Team Dickwolves t-shirts.
I’d never heard of Elan before. He appears to be a trite and talentless celebrity who I expect to never hear of again after this. I have to say that as a shock jock he’s a failure. Threatening women sexually? Dude, it’s been done. This isn’t the 1950s when simply using the word “dick” was edgy. I don’t expect men like him to have enough emotional range to be able to understand that they’re hurting people, but he ought at least to realize what a bore he is. I predict his career, pathetic as it is, will be finished within the year.
(And, no, I’m not that Diane. I don’t fly first class where I might encounter this sort of entitled asshole. Say what you will of people in steerage, they’re rarely producers of television bilge.)