Let's not get into Alison Roman. As an Indian woman, I find her appropriation of ethnic food into random "stews" pretty gross (and the recipes suck, too) |
anyone can make a chickpea stew. basic ingredients aren’t “appropriation” - if that were true we couldn’t use tomatoes, potatoes, or black pepper in the US. but yeah sure, Alison Roman publishing a stew recipe with garbanzo beans and coconut milk is totally the same as online bullying of teenage girl and telling her to kill herself. |
Yeah, no. Agree that Courtney needs to be cancelled too. All of them. |
I wasn't comparing the two!!! |
and btw, the stew has like 16,000 5-star reviews on the NYTimes websites. She’s a good recipe writer. That’s in fact why people attack her, because social media hates successful young women or young women who attract attention at all. |
Then you weren’t following anyone or actually active. Twitter was a known dumpster fire from the beginning. The difference was no one was doing searches for old tweets. |
It’s relevant bc Courtney has been trying to get her name out there for years. Actually, I just looked Courtney up again and the pronouns are they/them. They have wanted to be famous and in the media. So They has been trying to get Chrissy canceled so they can have the media circulating. They motives are quite clear. |
I remember when Courtney was all over the media and people were pretty ruthless. She was on Jezebel quite a lot and I just did a search and saw she was talking about bullying back then, including someone telling her to kill herself, it may have been Chrissy, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were others. https://jezebel.com/courtney-stodden-is-worlds-weirdest-anti-bullying-advoc-5865051 |
+1 |
There were definitely others. However, randos won’t give her the boost in the media she wants. |
Bland people like bland food. Is this a foreign concept to you? Plenty of successful young women. She wasn’t original or interesting. |
ok well I look forward to your movement to cancel every restaurant in the US with potatoes or tomatoes on the menu. |
and you better cancel all the Indian dishes with potatoes too ... |
I think Teigan felt empowered to be nasty because she was young and beautiful and starting to get positive attention in the industry, and she had probably observed that being “the hot girl” often affords some women a lot of leeway in their behavior. I sometimes wonder if women who do stuff like this are testing their powers. Like if you can tell some child on Twitter to kill herself and no one says anything, that’s how you know you’re really pretty and popular. I remember this dynamic from when I was younger. Sometimes the pretty, mean girls would get this gleam in their eye, like “I wonder if anyone is going to call me on this because I know I’m being terrible!” And then if no one did, or even better, if someone called them out and people rushed to her defense: triumph. It is a really, really upsetting dynamic and as someone who has been bullied in a similar way, it feels absolutely devastating. Because it’s not just whatever the mean girl is saying about you. It’s all the people standing around agreeing, or at least not intervening. It’s essentially being shamed and shunned and you feel completely powerless and it can absolutely make you contemplate suicide. I started self-harming when it happened to me. It’s really harmful behavior. Teigan should hold herself accountable, especially knowing what she knows now about mental health (and having experienced online bullying herself). |
Good. Then it couldn't happen to a trashier person. She's doing everyone a favor by exposing how disgusting Chrissy is. |