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Re: Chic Pea

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Bill463 wrote:
The small businesses pay her for the interviews and coverage? I just thought that she is just another self appointed Jersey City expert from like the mid-west or like Mass. Whenever I happen to read something from her it's like ' oh wow oh how wonderful ' the new business is. Then it goes under and she's like onto the next wonderful fantastic Jersey City small business yadda yadda yadda. Bunch of fluff with no substance. She will eventually grow up, get married, have babies and move to like Montclair. It's all so so very silly!

The funny thing is...she is married with a kid. And these poor schleps have to endure her face in her phone at every meal. I've witnessed it. These poor folks...they suffer along with the rest of us.

Posted on: 2016/2/25 1:34

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DancingPhoney

Re: Chic Pea

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I second this. Most of the PC police here should realize that commenters on the Hamilton Pork thread specifically requested that ChicPea criticisms should be on its on thread so not to hijack the HP one. And most of the sensitive types on here have no problem being abhorrent to people like Yvonne. Spare us the faux outrage. Probably all from people who wasted their money on that dump of a blog.

Second, it was a lackey of the Chicpea's who drew attention to her by suggesting we use her review of Hamilton Pork as a good review. To which I and others responded about how moronic it is to take advice from a paid review by a self aggrandizing attention whore. All of your replies of "what are you a stalker" or "jealous much?" is such a deflection of the main point: she's polarizing and not well liked in some circles. Rather than try to defend what you think are her redeeming factors, you go to these tired rebuttals. Nice try, but, no.

Yes, the comments on looks and all that were a bit out of bounds, but so what? Calm yourselves down. She chose to be a public figure and self-proclaimed voice of the gentrified parts of JC (sorry, "cultural blogger" i.e. the "make it yours" fangirl). Take the good and bad or GTFO.

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LittleJimSheehy wrote:
While I do not (nearly) approve of the post at the genesis of this thread, I do think we collectively need to reflect on the selectivity of the "PC" on this board. For instance, it seems many of the same people blasting the personal criticism of Chicpea also personally blast Yvonne. Whether you and I like and/or agree with her, Yvonne should not be a target of obscenely hurtful personal attacks - the same way poking fun at Lynn's appearance ABSOLUTELY crosses the line (even if she has thrust herself into the public discourse via seemingly relentless self-promotion).

It does seem relevant that Lynn accepts money to engineer a "neutral" review of local businesses.

However, personally attacking her appearance is brutally inappropriate -- the same way personal attacks on folks like Yvonne (who may not always agree, God forbid, with the Administration) are patently out-of-bounds.

Sorry for going on here ... I frequently lurk, but rarely post. I do not mean to assert that I back Yvonne, her positions or her posts. However, I do think this board needs some consistency in its PC approach: Being "polite" and "constructive" should apply to everyone.

Posted on: 2016/2/22 20:07

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