tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694040304727321463.post7962680372752812784..comments2023-11-02T06:58:54.782-04:00Comments on Dissection and Introspection: Megan MeierMediaMavenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12548519999729515206noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694040304727321463.post-52729669192231635952008-01-18T11:15:00.000-05:002008-01-18T11:15:00.000-05:00This story made think of the line in Mean Girls wh...This story made think of the line in Mean Girls where Tina Fey says, "You guys have to stop calling each other sluts and whores because then guys think its ok to call you sluts and whores."<BR/><BR/>Girls are mean. It's a sad fact of life. If they banded together at a younger age instead of tearing each other apart, it would make life much easier for them as they get older. Many grown women have trouble trusting other women, and is that really any surprise given how girls treat each other when they're young?<BR/><BR/>The fact that a grown woman, an educated, successful business woman and MOTHER could treat another child like this almost makes me throw up. I've heard about all the backlash on her and her husband- and she deserves every bit of it. She knew Megan was on antidepressants and was troubled, but all that mattered was to stop her from gossiping about her little girl.<BR/><BR/>Judith Warner, a blogger for NYT, says this is the extreme effect of "helicopter parenting," where parents are just so overly involved in kids lives. I don't know what Drew's problem is, but the fact that she could do this without guilt makes me wonder if she has some sort of psychopathic tendencies. And if not, I hope her community runs her right out of town.<BR/><BR/>Maybe Megan would have killed herself without the bullying from Drew. But Drew, being an adult and mother, should have tried to reach out and help Megan deal with her depression, rather than capitalize on it for her own sick needs.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01233884811870938830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694040304727321463.post-46077518476430700622008-01-18T11:01:00.000-05:002008-01-18T11:01:00.000-05:00I definitely think there should be updates to the ...I definitely think there should be updates to the books that make this a case of harassment, if not manslaughter (or conspiracy to commit murder, if you really want to nail Lori Drew and her accomplices to the wall.) <BR/><BR/>When I hear about cases like these, it shocks and amazes me to think that I made it through high school at all. I swear, some people (such as the mean girls you refer to) must have some sort of venom glands in their bodies. If they don't sink their metaphorical teeth into someone on a regular basis and force the poison into their very blood, the venom sacs could fatally burst. That has to be it, right? I mean, what other reason could there be for teenagers to be so awful to each other?<BR/><BR/>Then again, people are awful to each other from before preschool through post-nursing home. Dirk Gently may have been onto something when he surmised that in order to solve a crime in society, you have to solve the society in which the crime was committed. But, as the mayor of New York said in Ghostbusters II, "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every [American]'s God-given right." As long as you can't prove a direct causal relationship in a court of law, no one will turn over a new leaf and start treating other human beings as such.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569180426066178711noreply@blogger.com