Still Crazy After all These Years

Until the new Cassandra sham elements surface, the blog will mostly stick to DW versus VM til after worlds, but I did want to pause for this post:

I went through the fsu posts from those purporting to see the blog for the first time - and it seemed obvious some were seeing it for the first time and OMG.

The blog is fucking crazy! There's a run on brain bleach, there's people confronted with the limits around which their minds can stretch (not around the topic, but that there exists a person (me, the blogger) so deranged they could make all this up) there's faulty reading comprehension and there's logical fallacies but apart from that it's near unanimous that the blog is, among blogs, a freak. There is, of course, one or two 'there ought to be a law' sorts, but mostly it's get the butterfly net.

And what makes it a freak?

The premise. That Scott and Tessa have been together long since prior to the onset of his sham relationship with Jessica. That they got married in 2009 before the Olympics and yet afterwards, with Tessa pregnant, appeared in different markets touting how very platonic they are. That in every interview they were faking it.

That Scott paraded himself with Jessica and now with Cassandra, that they spoke explicitly to countless media and entertainment outlets that they weren't together and were completely platonic. That Skate Canada was a big participant, that the sainted Ilderton Ontario extols its love and gratitude for Canadian fans out of one side of their mouth while mocking them and ripping them off with the other, and that their practice is to say the exact opposite of whatever is true, and they've got a lot of familiar figure skating faces, family and friends, helping them, while marketing how home grown and unassuming everything is.

And a whole bunch of other stuff that still continues today, and we'll see plenty more of it as it comes to the fore again very soon.

That shit is fucking crazy.

So, in case the blog hasn't said so before - I agree. This shit is fucking batshit crazy. It's certifiable.

Yes it is. Fuck yeah "OMG". "OMFG" in fact.

And it's also true.

That doesn't make it any less crazy but here I am, carrying the label of a nutjob in some quarters all because Scott and Tessa lost their minds with this beyond any mind losing of any celebrity or demi celebrity in the history of celebrity. An epic clusterfuck of imbecility and arrogance.

They're the crazy ones, but they get to front as sane, as victims of a nutty blogger!

Is that fair?

I always thought I had a pretty good grasp of basic law concepts. For example, when starting this blog, I looked over the google blogger TOS very thoroughly, and also checked out a whole bunch of blogs outside the 'pantywaist'* figure skating universe and found plenty of blogs that make this one look circumspect.  I understood, as some people around the web do not, that there's no "figure skating" blog category in which figure skaters and their fans must be treated with kid gloves due to tradition and their conservative sensibilities.

But still, some of the legal talk has made me curious. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I can file a lawsuit under the blogger name (a la a 'John Doe' action) complaining that the name of oycanada has been defamed because the subjects of oc's blog are lying their asses off, being licentious nutjobs, hoax perpetrators and scam artists, and thus making oc appear to be the crazy one.

There ought to be a law. Isn't there one? Can't I obtain a restraining order stopping Tessa and Scott from shamming because it's damaging the blog's reputation and the blogger's name  - that if they must continue, they have to admit they are doing it, reimburse everyone who wants a refund from the book, and acknowledge that the blog's premise isn't crazy, but fact?

After all they reached out to US (to me, as it were. A fan).  In the 'who started it' category they lose. 

I think it's downright patriotic in both the US and Canada to resist being made a fool of by a bunch of lunatics, to push back against a large scale attempt to set people up, lead them on so as to play them for fools, use them as stooges and manipulate them for personal advantage. The blog began because this was what Scott and Tessa were doing.

It was practically a David and Goliath scenario!

The poor blog's everything from fundamental sanity to eyesight (no way Tessa could have been pregnant!) has been challenged based on only one thing - that anyone who writes what the blog writes and believes it to be true, must need to be committed.

But it is true. 

I feel like there must be some sort of motion, order or procedural process that can be legally pursued to compel the subjects of this blog to publicly set down the relevant facts about Scott and Tessa, so the judgment of crazy can at least be made on valid grounds.  As it is, the blog is being defamed simply because Scott and Tessa get to maintain their lies.

Maybe I'll pm some of the legal experts that are rife among the figure skating message boards.

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*Downton Abbey era term for pearl-clutching, easily offended wimpiness.

Child Free

The subject of their child is a little delicate for me, although I'm not sure why I feel that way considering little Quinn earned her sham enabler stripes before she even hit the basinet for the first time.

Will this be a fun family story for Quinn down the line? A fun bit of family history - the time Quinn played a role in Scott and Tessa's public career?

Or will it be forgotten as not important and sure to be completely uninteresting to Quinn, as it's been decided it must be for her cousin, Scott and Tessa's own, actual child. The child who is a non-person, up to and including Scott and Tessa's second Olympics. There's no shared experience, no name called out in the Kiss'n'Cry. The child doesn't exist.

Forever after, no matter how it's revised later on, for the contemporaneous record in the first years of this child's life, during mom and dad's historical career -  they didn't exist. They were never in mom's tummy. Event after event, a xygote turned quad spasm.

Mommy was a skater who spent most of her down time at school (so much for a public shout out to private reality for someone to treasure in years to come). 

And daddy? Well this kid can google til they go blind and not unearth a single piece of evidence that they existed in Daddy's world either back then, were part of things just like the cousins, friends and other relatives, who all have their public memento, experience, little piece of Daddy's public history.

You know who will also have their public memento, experience a little piece of public history while Scott and Tessa's child does not? A couple of relatively random girls photographed with and cooing all over daddy in public forums around the times of big, exciting Canadian competitions, proclaiming how they love him and miss him and can't wait to be with him, and daddy posed with them so the public can see. And a bunch of the girls' friends egging them on. The public can see, and YOU can see, because this will be on the web forever. But you can google yourself til you go blind and what will you see? Absolutely nothing. But those girls - those girls can show their grandkids! They were part of history.

You can show your own kids those girls too, when they ask where the hell you are in all of it.

Or you can cue up Grandma and Grandpa giving Aunt Charlotte and Quinn a shout out.

How important is it, really? Isn't private scrapbooking, private photos, private everything more important? Isn't it more meaningful to tell and explain how something was than to have something to show? Isn't it more important to talk about something years after the fact than to have evidence of having participated while it was happening?

If it were important then the other little girls - Quinn and Charlotte - would be acknowledged by Scott and Tessa in public. Instead, they're never mentioned. How did we even find out those two children exist? They're too young to really know what it means, so why bother giving them a Kiss'n'Cry shout out or talk about them in an interview? They're babies. That's why they, too, are non-persons and only have private record of their inclusion in the lives of their celebrated aunt and uncle. It's the private record that counts.

Oh, wait.

The fact that on the public record this child of Scott and Tessa's doesn't exist is interesting considering the public profile of the rest of the family.

Scott and Tessa's achievements and status in the skating world is such a source of pride that many of their nearest and dearest wanted to be part of it publicly.  It wasn't enough to feel the pride in their hearts. They wanted a record of it. Something to look at for years to come  - not just private video/private photos. They wanted public video/public photos, because that is more exciting. It makes it more special.

Scott and Tessa are not "out" as a married couple, but there's a near-infinite amount of public video, interviews, etc. preserving their achievements as a couple - the Olympic gold, the two world titles, the national championships. Of course there's plenty of private material, but the big stuff - winning, celebrating, achieving - is out there for all of history. There they are - together.

I figure Scott and Tessa have decided their child will be a Virtue. It's up to them - they're experts at influencing others by now. Why not their own kid? You shall be a Virtue. And not just any Virtue - you shall be like one of Tessa's camera-averse brothers.

You shall wind up extremely grateful you are a nonentity on the public record of your parents historical achievements.

So the child must be a Virtue at heart - or it's decided they will be.

For the Olympic free dance there was a network camera set up dedicated to filming the reaction of the Moir family. It was hovering up in the stands with them, in their faces. Those seats were jammed. The brothers. The sisters-in-law. For Canadian championships that preceded the Olympics, those people were likewise present, and more. Cousins. Significant others of the cousins. Plus. Represent!

You have to figure that if any of these people were interested in watching the free dance OFF camera, it could have been arranged. They were on camera because there they would be for posterity. They could point to it, show it to people, say - there I am.

Otherwise they could have joined Kate and Jordan. The Olympic family reaction in the stands after the free dance was all about the Moirs. Kate and Jordan got one reaction shot during the compulsory dance, but for the main event they were there, but kept their faces off camera.

So it can be done. Of course, if it's important to you to have your presence recorded for posterity, then you're where the camera is.

So this kid - it's decided the child will be a Virtue.

For Moirs, if it's not fun to be part of it all - to hear your name on TV, then why do Scott and Tessa call out to Quinny and Charlotte? It's special. You feel included. Did these babies even register what Scott and Tessa were doing the first time they did it? Doubtful. Bet the parents were thrilled though. Will the girls look back later and appreciate it? Sure they will.

If none of this mattered, then when people win Oscars they wouldn't call out to their kids. Why do that? Their kids know who they are! They know mom or dad loves them. Hell, if mom blows a kiss they might even "understand' that the kiss is for them.Who needs to hear their name or see themselves? They already know they're important. Why do they need their name called out on stage at the Academy Awards? They'll get to touch the Oscar at home!

But the parents do it anyway, don't they. Just like Scott and Tessa shout out Quinn and Charlotte.

It's special like Charlie White putting his niece on instagram or on facebook. It includes them. It's especially important to be included when your parents are a big big deal. I think Katia Gordeeva understood that when she included her young daughter in so many projects after her fame exploded. It's not famous mommy and ordinary you. You're part of it. You're sharing in the whole thing. You were there. Her daughter didn't grow up to be a famous skater but I think what Gordeeva did was a smart way to manage the height of her fame when her child was a little girl. Her child wasn't an observer. She participated.

You'd think this would be something someone from Ilderton, like Scott, would understand, considering how many Ildertonians aren't even children but still want the public acknowledgement of their participation in Scott and Tessa's story. They're not saving it to talk about later. They want to be able to show it off now. 

It's interesting that this part of things has been weighed - presumably - and the complete erasure of this kid from their parents' public history - a history that can't be recreated or reassembled or plugged in later - that history is all about the moment, all about the now - and then gone - has been decided.

A part of the child's entire life - the child's own history and what the child can show their own children - has been basically taken away, even though everyone else in the family gets it to be part of it in public and it's something they all share. And the new generation has already been recruited. Except for one who is outside the whole thing.

Scott and Tessa's public history and accomplishments loom as such a monumental event in the lives of all these people that we have, among other stuff, this public sham as a record of the importance it plays in their lives and personal histories.

And only their own child is the outsider, a non participant, slated for, at best, long after the fact acknowledgement, but absolutely nothing on the public record acknowleding their existence in the first three years of its life.