He called her beautiful and then got harrasaed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4071826/Steve-Martin-shamed-deleting-Carrie-Fisher-tribute-tweet-critics-called-sexist.html

WTF is wrong with people? Sure I mean the crybaby snowflakes. They obviously are miserable and hate their lives. And it wasn't for Twitter these wussies would barely exist. But I also mean the people who bend over for them. Those who cave in. Who give them what they want. WHY?!?! Stop enabling them. Stop encouraging them. Stop giving them what they want. It only makes it easier for them to whine about something and get their way next time. IGNORE THEM! let the pathetic whiny lil babies change their own diapers. Don't do it for them.

WOW. So to all you mean out there....STOP paying attention first to her physical appearance before her personality!

Because you know....personality is usually the first thing we see when we look at someone.

They were friends and he misses her and it was a lovely tweet. Why can't people just leave some shyt alone.

Wow, as someone who knew the lady personally, and probably knew what she would and would not approve of... He should have instead of deleted it turned around and shamed them. Either way, they should be ashamed of themselves.

It was a sudden heart attack.

He should've told them to get a life.

Since when does Martin cave like that?

Wow, that's pretty sad. He tweets a nice tribute to a famous actress and then is harassed... so he deletes it?

I agree that it's ridiculous but I speculate that Steve Martin deleted it because he didn't want a mourning time for the Fisher family to suddenly become all about him.

Steve Martin deleted it because he didn't want a mourning time for the Fisher family to suddenly become all about him. I agree that Martin may have thought that. But I disagree with him for doing it.

The Fisher family have been professional celebrities for decades. The have their private mourning that they keep from the media, I'm sure but they also have a public face that includes getting tweets from celebrity friends.

Steve Martin did absolutely nothing wrong in that tweet. He did nothing that could remotely be interpreted as wrong except by incredibly pathetic people who don't deserve to be catered to in the way that he did. He should have simply ignored the "outcry."

What's odd is they attacked Steve Martin's tweet yet not the statement Kevin Smith made in response to her death.

Kevin Smith said nothing wrong but from a SJW perspective it was "worse" than what Steve Martin said.

https://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/status/813822970825150464

Twitter-bound people need a real life. Stupid ignoramuses.

What did he say?

Anyway, I agree with you about Martin. It was reasonable for him to delate it, irrespective of the whole principle of it, just to diffuse the controversy and avoid placing the focus on him.

Plus, I believe he's a liberal. That doesn't mean he agrees with the people who stupidly attacked him over his Tweet. But he probably figured that there was no reason making a fuss over it all.

Kevin Smith basically said that from the time he was a tween he was hot for Carrie Fisher. He said when he became a film-maker and finally met her and told her about his obsession she replied by saying, "I'm glad I helped you find your light sabre."

That hillarious response from her only further proves that she probably wouldn't have minded Steve Martin's tweet at all.

Indeed.

If Carrie Fisher said that, I'm sure she wouldn't have had any problem with Smith or Martin's Tweets.

The fact that both Smith and Martin knew Fisher surely indicates that they have far better insight into what she would have wanted or might have found offensive. Sadly, I think the people taking offence are focusing more on their own sense of inadequacy than on Carrie Fisher. They're making it all about them rather than her.

Twitter-bound people need a real life. Stupid ignoramuses.

I'd gladly like to see the end of Twitter.

It's a boil on society, and causes more harm than good IMHO. When he have a dickhead President making policy announcements via Twitter rather than going through his team and checking the diplomatic implications, it just goes to show what a joke social media has become.

I thought Steve Martin was smarter than that.

Twitter is a website for idiots.

lol @ anyone who uses Twitter, really.

I can proudly say I've never been to the website.

That's probably the funniest thing Steve Martin's done in 25 years.

Sadly, that's not far from the truth.

He was the king of comedy during the late 70s and the entire 80s, but from Father of the Bride onwards it pretty much went downhill.

Still, Bowfinger was a rare highlight during the last 25 years.

Looking at the tweet in full, I suspect the feminists are angry because he commented (ahem, "objectified") on her appearance first before noting her personality.

Which is still profoundly ridiculous, of course. It's not like all those women dreaming of dating those muscle-bound morons at the beach for example are thinking about their personalities first and foremost.

I agree that the outrage was absurd, although I people took more offence because it was in the context of a eulogy.

Then again, the whole point of Martin's comment was to illustrate how he was initially taken by Fisher's looks, but as soon as he got to know her he came to see there was so much more to her. Isn't that the case with most first impressions (certainly pre-social media)? We notice a person's physical appearance first (unless of course we're blind), and then we get to know them for their other attributes.

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LOL
YOU are a Hillary Clinton loving SJW
These are YOUR people! OWN it!!

I'm certainly not Hillary loving (unless you mean, in comparison to Trump).

And I have sympathy for some so-called SJW objectives. But I find some other aspects OTT and extreme.

Carrie Fisher was not that good-looking. Steve should have doubled-down on his tweet and pretended he was The Rump or something.

"Who is she? She's beautiful" :/

I agree.
Nothing is at all wrong with his tweet.
I really am clueless as to why there are those who are being way too sensitive in the wrong way.
It's almost as if they are always on the prowl to be offended and somehow get off on it.

I suppose his tweet did do a service in that it illustrated how we immediately assess a woman's worth based on her physical appearance when we meet them for the first time.

This is a difficult time for Fisher's family and friends, though. Probably for the best to take down a tweet that could be damaging to women, even if something unintended and positive came out of it. After all, Fisher was well known as a passionate feminist.

And we all know how women are immediately objectified by everyone they meet anyway.

What is so horrible about stating that she is beautiful? She WAS!!! Where's the crime?

Objectification! Deciding a woman's value as a human being after nothing more than meeting her and taking in her physical appearance.

How do you know Steve Martin decided Carrie Fisher's entire value on the basis of her physical appearance? Simply noticing someone's appearance, and that they're beautiful/handsome, doesn't mean that's the sum total of their appreciation.

You seem to want to treat us all as brains in a jar, when it's in fact natural to notice a person's appearance and find them attractive on that basis whether you're male or female, gay or straight.

If Steve Martin was saying that's all Carrie Fisher was, a pretty face, or if someone was putting down another individual on the basis of being 'ugly' and thus demeaning and attacking them for their appearance (as people have variously, and erroneously, done to both Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, recently), that would be wrong. But Steve Martin was not objectifying Carrie Fisher or simply reducing her to nothing more than her appearance.

She wasn't being objectified. Someone can appreciate aesthetics without this nonsense coming into play.

Grow the fuck up.

When we meet a person for the first time, and haven't yet spoken to them or got to know them, it's natural to assess a person on the one thing we can perceive: their physical appearance. That has nothing to do with gender. We all do it, irrespective of our gender and the gender of the person we're assessing.

Stop trying to make a bigger thing out of this than was intended.

I personally never found Carrie Fisher physically attractive, and was more interested in her personality and abilities as an actress/writer, but Steve Martin wasn't being sexist or demeaning in simply saying that her looks was the first thing he noticed. He was being honest.

Yeah that was just stupid, now it's offensive to call women 'beautiful'?

Some day it'll be offensive to say anything.

WTF? They really want everyone to be homo.

I heard that the last thing Debbie Reynolds said before collapsing was, "That damned Steve Martin and his insensitive tweet!"

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"He's a wild and crazy guy!"