Comments on: Talk to Your Daughter About Cyberbullying Now http://rosalindwiseman.com/2010/02/02/talk-to-your-daughter-about-cyberbullying-now/ creating cultures of dignity Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:30:44 -0400 hourly 1 By: T.D. http://rosalindwiseman.com/2010/02/02/talk-to-your-daughter-about-cyberbullying-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1347 T.D. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:50:04 +0000 http://rosalindwiseman.com/?p=4069#comment-1347 Those women might have thought their actions as "clean, fun free speech" but that's wrong. It wasn't clean since it got nasty and vulgar. It wasn't fun since someone got hurt. It definitely wasn't free since it cost someone their life. "Oh get over it, it was a joke" they'd go. I'm reminded of Cervantes here: "A joke that causes harm is NO joke at all." And they caused harm in spades. The guilty women need to answer for it. We can't let Phoebe be thought of as a statistic who died in vain. Those women might have thought their actions as “clean, fun free speech” but that’s wrong.

It wasn’t clean since it got nasty and vulgar.

It wasn’t fun since someone got hurt.

It definitely wasn’t free since it cost someone their life.

“Oh get over it, it was a joke” they’d go.

I’m reminded of Cervantes here: “A joke that causes harm is NO joke at all.”

And they caused harm in spades.

The guilty women need to answer for it.

We can’t let Phoebe be thought of as a statistic who died in vain.

]]> By: T.D. http://rosalindwiseman.com/2010/02/02/talk-to-your-daughter-about-cyberbullying-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 T.D. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:35:51 +0000 http://rosalindwiseman.com/?p=4069#comment-1346 This cyberbullying is a case of not mean girls but ugly women at their nastiest. I understand the legal repercussions of revealing the names, but these real mean women (I refuse to call them girls since this vicious, heinous act means they need to be treated as adults, not minors) need to face the court of brutal public opinion at least. They ended one life and trashed her reputation after her death, the "life for life, rep for rep" payback sounds suddenly a lot more reasonable. Let's see how those popular mean girls do when they get justifiably labeled "psycho bitch and virtual murderer". They need to be "outed" and shown for who they are. They may not have pulled guns or knives on Phoebe, but she still died because of their own actions, meaning they very well might have done that. I have no tolerance for bullies, and for this extreme of schadenfreude (enjoying the suffering of others) deserves the guilty parties to not be spared anything, even if they are younger than 18. A girl needlessly died because of them. Doesn't she deserve justice? This cyberbullying is a case of not mean girls but ugly women at their nastiest. I understand the legal repercussions of revealing the names, but these real mean women (I refuse to call them girls since this vicious, heinous act means they need to be treated as adults, not minors) need to face the court of brutal public opinion at least.

They ended one life and trashed her reputation after her death, the “life for life, rep for rep” payback sounds suddenly a lot more reasonable. Let’s see how those popular mean girls do when they get justifiably labeled “psycho bitch and virtual murderer”. They need to be “outed” and shown for who they are.

They may not have pulled guns or knives on Phoebe, but she still died because of their own actions, meaning they very well might have done that.

I have no tolerance for bullies, and for this extreme of schadenfreude (enjoying the suffering of others) deserves the guilty parties to not be spared anything, even if they are younger than 18.

A girl needlessly died because of them. Doesn’t she deserve justice?

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