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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "why do you care?" comments are weird. A lot of people care because they have experienced the kind of abusive bullying Teigen engaged in, in their own lives. It's the same reason that some people get especially upset when someone who turned out to be a sexual abuser (Matt Lauer, Louis C.K., etc.) attempts to mount a comeback.

If you've never had someone in a position of power say stuff like "you should kill yourself" while laughing at you and getting others to pile on, you may not understand. But as someone who has experienced something akin to what Teigen did to Courtney Stodden, my experience is that the "come back" is part of an abusive cycle. People who are comfortable exploiting social capital to psychologically destroy people in weak social positions also tend to be great at getting people to like them and manipulating that affection. So the come back is just another round of rebuilding social capital so that they can then wield it against others again.

That's why I don't think Teigen should get back to her old level of fame and influence, and why I think it's important to remind people what she did. I'm not trying to randomly cancel her -- there are plenty of ways to work and make money without being a Teigen/Kardashian type influencer. I just think that when someone has a track record of abusing power, maybe lets not just give them that exact same power again. Especially when they haven't shown much contrition or ability/willingness to see what the problem was with their prior behavior. It's dangerous.[/quote]

Equating mean tweets to sexual abuse is absolutely INSANE. If there is no redemption possible, why would anyone try to improve. Mindsets like yours are what drive people to little internet hovels where they are accepted by horrific people and slowly lose their humanity to the QANON shamen.

Courtney Stodden did not kill herself. And to blame Chrissy Teigan for what happened to her is like blaming a single paparazzi photographer for what happened to Britney Spears. They didn't act well at the time, and they should examine what made them act so badly, but they were not the true villain in either story. In Courtney's case it was the MAN who abused her and the family that sent her off like a show pony to make them some money. I'm not saying Chrissy Teigan didn't act reprehensibly at the time, but people in here comparing her to Louis CK or, earlier in the thread, NAZIS, are completely off their rocker. She was a bullying b on the internet in 2008. She's allowed to get older, mature, stop drinking and apologize for that and have some people decide that's ok (and for some people to decide they don't forgive her!). 
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