Indirect action
This sad and bizarre story has been making the rounds. Megan, a high school girl with self-esteem issues has a fight with a friend. The friend's mother creates a fake boy named Josh on MySpace. "Josh" becomes Megan's friend over the course of months, building Megan's confidence, and then turns on her, telling her she is worthless. Megan hangs herself in her closet.
"I just really hope that no one comes out here and does something insane," Buckles said. "If they do, I hope they get the right house."
Now the woman is (rightly) shunned by her neighbors, although driving a child to suicide doesn't seem to be illegal. (I wish I'd known that when I was in high school.) But should driving someone to a self-destructive act through emotional manipulation be a crime? If so, we should just wall off Washington DC and turn it into a gigantic prison.
One last thing. The family lives on Waterford Crystal Drive. What the hell?! Even residential street names have corporate sponsors now?
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Heh. I thought the same thing about the name of the street.
The whole story is just so appalling. It's bad enough that children treat each other that way- it seems to be part of the process known as adolescence, and having been on the wrong end of it for a good chunk of mine, it sucks. But one would think that a GROWN WOMAN would understand that her job is to help her children learn to cope with and move beyond that kind of hurt and disappointment, not to engage in it herself for the sake of revenge.
Well said, Tiffany. The problem - IMHO - is that way too many parents nowadays want to be their kids' "friend." Kids have enough friends; they need PARENTS, people that will be held accountable for the way children are raised and teach them that actions have consequences.
Thank goodness for my "old school" upbringing!
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