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I'd not mind to hear what you think those lines are, if you'd not mind to post. If you prefer not, that's ok.
It is easy to be awful behind a keyboard.
That must be so. I can't imagine it would be filled with nothing but bullies.
In the other post you said this:
It does tear me up when I see someone being bullied and no one stands up for the victim. I just can't shake this protective instinct.
Here are some questions without seeing the definition you might offer to what you see bullying to be:
Did you mean that HW is being bullied here in Ellgab?
If she doesn't come all the way to Ellgab to read this thread, has no knowledge of the posts here is it still bullying?
Is it all bullying the moment she logs in and comes to this thread and sees it, so not bullying until she sees it?
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Well, I mean, just as Dynamo Hum said, picking on people for their psychical appearance...I think that's bullying...I mean, she was right in saying there's lots of other juicier things to pick on. But the dilemma is that everyone has different lines they either will or won'r cross. I don't think Heather deserves to have her looks assessed by a bunch of basement dwelling losers. But then again, she's put herself out there...so I guess IN A WAY its fair game.
Bullying is something that take place when you're
present, you're right. I think thats what you're getting at. You've caught me on a technicality and its semantics at the end of the day.
Is bullying the relentless picking apart of everything and anything Heather does? Perhaps not. But basically a lot of this shit borders on targeted harrassment and doxxing lite.
Sure. Heather has been discussed extremely negatively here at EllGab - which borders on character assassination, but no, I guess its not bullying so to speak.
You're alluding to the whole "if a tree falls in the woods and no ones around to hear it did it fall" thing and my response has to be this: Heather may not know what goes on here, and probably saves herself a lot of pain by not visiting the site, but lets face it, the whole thing is just wrong.
This is a bit woo woo perhaps but I believe it has a kernel of truth in it...directing negative comments, energy, attention and insults (remotely or long distance) at a person actually does affect them and their psyche. What is happening is that stuff is reaching her and hurting her and its genuinely bad juju. So people can sit around and justify it all they want - but if the woman offed herself tomorrow every one of the horrid things people did would have contributed to that.