The truth is always crazier

Saw this on FSUniverse which I hardly look at anymore until it's time for a blog post (just in case Scott had a big wedding or announced he and Jackie are expecting):

In Virtue and Moir's heyday I read so many rumors, the most pervasive of which had Scott and Bryce Davison coming to blows over Jessica Dube when Scott and Jessica weren't heavily making out in aircraft boarding waiting areas while Bryce disconsolately looked on. Although occasionally this would happen in restaurants where Dube and Moir snuggled in a booth canoodling while Bryce looked on disconsolately from a seat at the bar. 

Everybody had a first hand story about that and none of them were called crazy. Even though the stories were made up. The pinnacle of the Bryce/Jessica/Scott fan fic masquerading as first hand real life experience was someone from Salt Lake City, Utah, posting on a fan board, claiming in multiple parts that, through a friend and lots of begging, she got to work as a receptionist or similar at the summer Team Canada meeting in Canada, that at this meeting she saw skaters basically goofing around on the ice since it was really a bonding event, that one skater threw a skate at another and the target landed flat on his back, and of course the piece de resistance - she had seen Scott and Jessica kiss ON THE LIPS. 

Considering the summer meeting takes place at a venue without a rink, I thought this was quite the hype but even after being exposed the author was not considered crazy. 

 This is a gaslighty era we're living in. I wonder when or if it will turn. After I was doing this blog awhile I noticed how often the media (and some fans) across an entire spectrum of topics (but mostly when a high high profile individual was the subject) tries to disable critique by misrepresenting the criticism and critique, hyping the actual commentary to the point of derangement and calling the critics disturbed. I'm thankful, at least, that the old standbys of "fat", "sex-starved" and "middle-aged" have fallen out of favor although skaters sometimes sneak it in there by referring to "our demographic." 

It's sad how long being a woman has been a weapon used to put someone on the defensive -  hurl the right adjectives and the target will come out swinging that they aren't any of those shameful things. 

Outside the blog, Virtue Moir fans in general are accused of opinions they don't hold and don't promote. Virtue and Moir aren't stalked and bullied. What negative fan experiences Virtue and Moir have had would have been diminished if they hadn't spent the past 12-14 years baiting and gaslighting their fan base and if they hadn't exhorted fans to take a ringside seat at Scott's fake intimate life. They want their cake and to eat it too, and setting up boundaries the way real grown-ups do isn't on the menu.

As for a restraining order against the blog; they'd have to sue google and I wonder about claim. "Issue a restraining order against this blog for telling people we're married when we're married." I'd look forward to the discovery phase if such an action were filed but alas it would never get that far cause they are married and it would end there.

ETA - suppose Scott and Tessa weren't married and this blog was delusional or a scam. Nobody would care. The comments section would be empty. Suppose ten years ago I claimed I was a long lost Moir sibling and have maintained that posture ever since. Or that Tessa was married at fifteen to someone. Or that her chronic exertional compartment syndrome was a blind for a pregnancy with a well-known politician. All that would be "eh." It would just be internet noise and nobody's blood pressure or righteous defense mechanisms would activate. 

And if they weren't married and since 2011 this blog saying they were, it would also be internet noise and nobody would be fulminating and feeling pity (at least not for Scott and Tessa) and talking about restraining orders for someone who is sitting on their own crackpot blog not bothering anybody. 

The righteousness kicks in because Scott and Tessa are married. If it weren't true my saying this wouldn't make people riled. Over time I've asked fans why are you pissed off? As far as you're concerned I'm just a not all there no-life having internet troll with too much time on my hands and a one note fantasy life. Joining the legions on the web of whom the same can be said. Nothing to add; let's hope I get the help I need.

They're not angry at what the blog says they're angry at something else and can't figure it out.