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Imagine a slightly different version of this story, told from the other viewpoint: A woman writes a negative review of a book that she feel trivializes underag
by waterlesscloud 12y ago
Imagine a slightly different version of this story, told from the other viewpoint:
A woman writes a negative review of a book that she feel trivializes underage rape and PTSD. She encourages others to see the book in that same light.
She hasn't used her real identity online, and she's sensitive about rape and trauma. Is she hiding her ID for reasons of safety?
The author then net stalks her, finding out her where she lives and where she works. The author calls her (more than once!) at work, saying she knows who she really is. The author also drives to her home, but doesn't knock and leaves a book with the creepy title A Short Guide To A Happy Life (is it a hidden message? SHORT LIFE?) on the doorstep.
Then the author publishes her real name in a major newspaper, resulting in views all over the planet. Whatever reason she had for keeping a low profile, even if it was for her own safety from a past abuser, it's blown now.
The story sure looks different from that angle. Not saying it's all the way things are, but it's certainly a valid alternate view.
- jasonlotito 12y agoYou left out the part where she decides to openly mock, or, I guess the phrase today is cyberbully, the author on Twitter. Angles are fine, but don't leave out things that happened.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoWell, I don't know what the author considered to be ridicule on Twitter. It's not the case that all ridicule is "cyberbullying". I also note that the other person wasn't directly engaging the author on Twitter (via "@"), since the author acknowledges she only found it be searching for her name. If I ridicule, say Justin Bieber, on Twitter without directly engaging him, am I "cyberbullying" him? I don't know the whole story here, but what's been presented certainly is open to being flipped around the other way.