Anonymous asked: dear dear earlygrey68 (i must ask about your name next time) would you give me any advices at how to react to a hate message someone send me because of Benedict? (this is my Benedict blog, ---> Benedictcumberbatchadict) i'm a very lovefull person, i mean i like to give just love, even in tumblr, so i get scared when those things happen :'c
Ugh, I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. ::hugs::
Hate is such a pointless waste of energy, it really is. So I don’t like to expend much of my energy in response. I would recommend being so sweetly reasonable that it’s dull to the person, because no doubt they were trying to get a rise out of you. If it was a message with some substance that you can rebut in an even, passive-aggressive manner, I’d go for it. I also think it’s super-effective to just be like, “Sorry you feel that way!” I don’t know, in my head, that deflates them by refusing to sink to their level and acknowledging that we are all allowed our own opinions.
Thoughts from others?
(And the name is just because I like Earl Grey tea. It’s actually not meant to be a Star Trek reference, I never watched Star Trek until this last movie. And the 68 is for my birthday, June 8. :-))