In short, I just hate the notion that anyone is supposed to live up to anyone else's expectations on what a list of their favorite films is. Our beliefs or our politics dont need to run interference on everything, and for a fan of an artist to think Hertzfeld should be approaching his list- making like she thinks it should be done, is obnoxious.
Having a larger swath of people vote is the way in which we enact change, if we want more representation on this ballot. Not having any kind of demand that we start tailoring our own feelings about art to reflect what someone else thinks it should reflect. Because, seriously, that's a bunch of shit.
If she wanted to engage with Hertzfeld about this (and I'll be clear about this one prejudice that definitely colors my irritation with her....I despise Twitter and the need some people have to interact with celebrities and other people they do not know and who they expect too much of), how about cutting it out with the 'disappointment' and simply ask him if there were any films by women (or whatever other thing she thought should be on his list) he considered. Open that discussion up without the notion that somehow Hertzfeld owed her a single solitary thing.
I'm not on Twitter. I think I just kind of accept that that casual type of interaction with semi-celebs happens on there and that's part of why they're on there. If they get bombarded with it a ridiculous amount all the time, then it becomes somewhat obnoxious. Given the outcomes and the zeitgeist, if a fan of his work didn't ask him that there, someone else would. I don't like the idea though that someone feels like they have to justify their ballot so often that they start to feel worn down and just decides to put different movies on it next time to avoid talking about it; which because we're all human.
In terms of "disappointed", it, like the word, "expect," has radically different meanings based on what the user means when it comes to degrees.
Expect ranges anywhere from, "I have no opinion on should, just, this is what I think will happen," to "this should happen," "I want this to happen," "I demand this should happen."
Disappointed goes from, what, "I'm a little bummed," to, "you should feel bad about this," to, "you need to change."
Without context, and the use of the qualifier, "a bit," I'm just going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume she was using the first one. People are allowed to express their emotional reaction on Twitter I believe. And yes, I hope it doesn't turn into an amplification that makes it feel like a cultural force to change their ways to the recipient (which I'm guessing is a real problem with Twitter) when it comes to expressing what they love, but in isolation, that one comment, like I said, doesn't strike me as unreasonable for someone to say.