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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone keeps asking why CT went after people.
[b]Because she was insecure and drunk and spent her time in an industry that is mean and superficial[/b]. [/quote]

But this is true of tons of people who don’t encourage others to take their lives. [/quote]

Actually Twitter was a dumpster fire. People keep getting canceled for their past tweets. [/quote]

I’ve been on Twitter since it first became popular. I don’t recall ever seeing many tweets encouraging others to kill themselves. And the nastiest tweets are almost always from anonymous randos. This has never been normal or acceptable behavior even on Twitter. [/quote]

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).[/quote]

+1. Interesting perspective that I hadn’t really thought about. [/quote]

agree[/quote]

Agree too. Thanks PP above for sharing that. I relate. I was bullied as a young adult by a woman who was widely seen by our peers as beautiful and “cool”. She was vicious. What was so hurtful wasn’t the terrible things she said, which included threats against me, but that so many people stood by and watched and said nothing. [/quote]

NP, I’m sorry you went through that. It sounds really frustrating.

Teagan should be ashamed of herself. [/quote]

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