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Battle Royale for AfterElton.com's Man of the Decade Escalates On Twitter

The battle for Man of the Decade was close, with Neil Patrick Harris and John Barrowman only separated by twenty votes. Neither of these men is used to losing - each is top man in their respective country, and each has a huge cross over appeal.

But we never expected them to actively campaign, like Mike Bloomberg trying to buy a mayoral race. This morning, Neil took to his Twitter account, and made a low-key appeal to his 190k followers to drop by and vote for him to be atop Barrowman. And, boy, did they turn out in droves! Let's just say the difference is now a lot more than twenty votes.

But this evening, John got wind of the fact that Neil was trying to stuff him at the ballot box, and he took to his Team Barrowman account, with a personally signed battle cry that he was joining the battle.

This is freaking hilarious. And I want a photo for AfterElton.com of the winner and the runner-up, together. Or two photos. or a photo-shoot.

*cough*

It's past time to cut through this fucking buillshit.

I have stayed out of the OTW insanity since it began. I didn't even know how to begin to talk about it, and I didn't want to wade in while things were shaking out, and I didn't want to read things that were going to make me angry, because I knew it would just cause me impotent rage, since there was nothing I would be able to do.



I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE/DON'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OTW IF THEIR PHILOSOPHIES ARE IN DIRECT CONFLICT (bolded now for those who fail at reading comprehension and think I'm defending OTW, instead of what I'm actually doing, which is bitching about people who hide their identities so that they can say nasty things about OTW), but I am so done with people who are against the OTW with absolutely no facts to back up their opposition. They are the Teabagging Party when it comes to OTW: frothing at the mouth with blind hatred, but they have absolutely no fucking facts and they just believe whatever their mental, seething leaders say without bothering with critical thought, or fact-finding of their own.

In case anyone reading this thinks that I'm somehow part of the OTW "machine," let me be crystal clear. I have no part in OTW. I'm not on the board, I'm not a beta-tester, I'm not a coder, I'm not part of the PR department, I'm not anything at all when it comes to the project. But I am DONE with this fucking insane bullshit Teabagger-mentality ignorance that has spread through some sections of fandom that are just spoiling for a fight with the OTW, because they've heard from someone who knows someone who said something they didn't like.

I have fucking HAD IT.

Whiny, shitty fucks who bitch about the OTW, but create sock-puppet accounts to do it so no one who knows them will know it was *them*, can shove it up their own asses. Cowards. Bullies. Those of you who have a beef with the OTW and have created sock-puppet accounts just to write about it? Show your faces, you craven pieces of shit. How dare you hide so that nobody who knows you finds out what you think. Afraid of conflict with people you know? Coward. You want to dish it out while not having to own it. Put up or shut up.