From the Bitches Auxiliary: Geograhically Stupid

We could have rewritten this up into an article, but this Auxiliary Bitch did such a nice job we'll just post it as is:

Dearest Bitches.

I rarely stumble into the Storque, but for some reason I decided to yesterday. Unfortunately, it was still crap, but I was somehow able to find this wonderful article written by our fearless leader Rokali.

I tried to let it roll of my back, but it has gotten to me more and more over the past day.

Now if you're not from Tennessee you probably won't understand why I have to complain about this, but I found the article HUGELY offensive. No wonder Vanessa didn't see a problem with offending the "older" crowd and DanielleXO feels it OK to be nasty to everyone. This is the CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation that has several customers in the state that he is belittling.

Here are the quotes I'm most pissed off about:

"so we rented a car and drove through the flat countryside up to Springfield." This was just plain stupidity. Anyone who's ever driven in middle TN knows there isn't any FLAT countryside anywhere...it's all hills.

"it felt worlds away from my Brooklyn home." Like Tennessee is just some backwoods country town with no civilization? Yeah, we're all from a totally different planet.

"That night Tara and I drove back to Nashville through the winding country roads, missing most major turns at least once." What winding country roads? In Nashville? Does he know that Nashville is a pretty large city? I've lived in Nashville for 22 years (my entire life) and have never seen the winding country roads he speaks of.

"and then went down to Broadway for a night on the town. All I can say is, where have all the acoustic guitars gone in Nashville? It was all flash electric whizzin’." Like Nashville is only supposed to have acoustic guitars...because we don't know what electricity is?

But the real kicker was found in the comments section by another admin:
"Old-timey music on a front porch in Appalachia in the summertime is truly my idea of heaven. Wonderful story, I can smell the grass, see the fireflies...taste the moonshine!" APPALACHIA? Does this idiot own a map...or a computer? maps.google.com honey...this is not APPALACHIA that's in Virginia.

I wasn't completely fed up with Etsy until I read this. And while it may not seem like a big deal to everyone else it really made me realize just why the rest of the admins act the way they do. It's because of the "leadership." He was simply trying to write and exhilarating article with no concern of the feelings of some of the members of the "community" and the mindless drones that are his employees just pat him on the back for it. The asking for old people thread was one mistake, but now they're catering to stereotypes about southerners, next it's fat people or poor people, people from different countries, or different religious groups...where does it stop?

I just had to complain and I knew the bitches would like to hear it!

Cranky notes:
Not only does the blind arrogance stun me, but the appalling lack 'worldliness' is even less than I've come to expect from New Yorkers honestly. They seem to always compare places to the city that occupies merely a tiny dot on the face of the earth but has the biggest ego in the world. There are larger cities, there are more fantastic places, and certainly there are much smarter people - that's where the rest of us live!