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Dec. 11th, 2009 11:29 amAdults shamed a girl into taking her own life because she texted a photo of her breasts to a teenage boy. Are those adults someone who I would want to have in my life? No. Do they have part of the blame? Yes. Do they deserve scorn and condemnation? Yes. Should they visit her grave in penitence? Yes.
Did they kill her?
NO. This is so frustrating, it makes me ashamed to be a liberal. Since moral panic led to this, it does not help to add moral panic in reverse.
Hope Witsell is to blame for hanging herself, not because she showed a boy her breasts, but because she hanged herself.
Nobody likes you? I've been there. What you need to realize is that nobody who is in your life right now matters. Fuck your parents, fuck your teachers, fuck your peers. That was all an accident of birth. Soon you'll get a new life with people who you choose, who are not worthless. In the meantime you can dull the pain by choosing to stop placing value on them.
And that's what your supporters should do with you, to dull the pain now.
Did they kill her?
NO. This is so frustrating, it makes me ashamed to be a liberal. Since moral panic led to this, it does not help to add moral panic in reverse.
Hope Witsell is to blame for hanging herself, not because she showed a boy her breasts, but because she hanged herself.
Nobody likes you? I've been there. What you need to realize is that nobody who is in your life right now matters. Fuck your parents, fuck your teachers, fuck your peers. That was all an accident of birth. Soon you'll get a new life with people who you choose, who are not worthless. In the meantime you can dull the pain by choosing to stop placing value on them.
And that's what your supporters should do with you, to dull the pain now.
