A very sad thing happened to me. With only 5 days left of my precious campaign to bring my children’s songs into the world, I reached out to Amy Lupold Bair, an amazing woman, a former English teacher and mother who runs The Global Influence Network which connects bloggers, and has nearly 40,000 Twitter followers. I wrote her a letter, asking her to consider promoting my campaign a little among her network. Later in the day, I saw this tweet:
Just got this email: “We wish to introduce young children to Shakespeare…” Dude. Have they read Shakespeare?!?
— Amy Lupold Bair(@ResourcefulMom) June 15, 2012
So I thought if she just took a moment to see my beautiful daughter singing a song, she might have a change of heart.
@ResourcefulMom That was me 🙂 Sorry about that. But I do want to introduce children to Shakespeare, and this is how: youtu.be/oISZ7Ryym8k
— Daeshin Kim (@DaeshinKim) June 16, 2012
But then I was dismayed to discover a retweet by Cindy Dyer, a homeschooling mother, a Christian, and a blogger:
Heh RT @ResourcefulMom: Just got this email: “We wish to introduce young children to Shakespeare…” Dude. Have they read Shakespeare?!?
— Cindy Dyer (@Getalonghome) June 15, 2012
And so I couldn’t help myself (and this part is totally my fault, I admit)…
I’m so sad to be mocked by strong women I truly respect like @ResourcefulMom & @Getalonghome – I did read some Shakespeare in college…
— Daeshin Kim (@DaeshinKim) June 16, 2012
Which is true. You can check my LinkedIn profile. I really did study Shakespeare. If either of these influential women had done a little research, this might not have had to become ugly, and public. Ugly and public is the last thing I wanted, so I just left it at that. But finally I received this:
@DaeshinKim No one mocked you. Please stop tweeting at us. Thanks. @Getalonghome
— Amy Lupold Bair(@ResourcefulMom) June 16, 2012
BREAKING NEWS. As I was writing this post, I saw this:
@Getalonghome Blocked him. That was creepy.
— Amy Lupold Bair(@ResourcefulMom) June 16, 2012
MORE BREAKING NEWS. Soon after this, my Twitter account was suspended, just when I need it most, to continue my sorry campaign…