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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of what I don't understand here - we're supposed to mock Dawn for donating a kidney then talking about it?!

The kidney donors I know talk about it both because they are proud and also to try to raise awareness and encourage others to do it. Was she supposed to donate the kidney and then... not talk about it?

I've seen so many cruel tweets and comments about this suggesting that somehow her kidney donation - a selfless thing to do - was BAD, and I am just struck by this insane up is down judgment.[/quote]

She was supposed to do it in a twitter mob approved way, right hashtags and all.  Otherwise she might make someone uncomfortable.[/quote]

It's one thing to donate a kidney and talk about it and raise awareness. It is quite another thing to add people to your FB group, then email them because they hadn't commented. And it is not ok to go to a conference and say. "No one asked about my missing kidney!"

That said, Larson is also terrible. As are her writer friends. [/quote]

Interesting. So you’ve never been part of a Caring Bridge?  I think people are uncomfortable that Dawn picked up on the fact that something odd was going on and wasn’t afraid to confront people about it. Because it wasn’t just the lack of likes or comments that bothered Dawn - it was the fact that Larsen was reading her posts and not bothering to comment. She had a gut instinct that something was up and she wasn’t wrong. Larsen was reading, not engaging and simultaneously mocking her. She could have simply removed herself from the group or hidden it so she didn’t see updates. But she didn’t do that. She read what was posted and then took it back to her friends to trash Dawn. That is sick. The fact so many are uncomfortable that someone had the audacity to (albeit awkwardly) call them out tells you a lot. [/quote]
Exactly. The fact that she was reading these posts but never commented or liked anything, then pretended like she didn’t know is so shitty[/quote]

What?  Not to harp on what's a minor point in a much larger story, but now reading FB posts and not commenting or liking is considered rude?  I read lots of things on FB and do not comment on or like them. I don't like doing that on FB, and I don't think I'm obligated to.  Maybe I'll bring it up with you later, maybe I won't.  If you voluntarily put it out on FB, you don't get to demand that people react to it in a certain way.  I would find it very creepy and self-absorbed if someone messaged me directly to ask me why I hadn't commented on their post.

And I thought you couldn't see who read your stuff on FB anyway, is that wrong?[/quote]

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