Re: Defending a celeb or stranger online..
Specifically Twitter.. Anyone done this?
I was reading some really nasty comments yesterday about a Pakistani girl (her partner is famous) and was thinking wth?? There was a little group of Pak girls from the UK who were really slating her, basically calling her a sl*g for wearing a sleeveless dress during Ramadan (in their words she was ‘half naked’ even tho it was full length, not low-cut or anything, just sleeveless and this was for her birthday), saying she wore too much makeup, that her guy prob wasn’t the first she had been with and how could he marry her rather than a ‘good’ Muslim girl..
The funny thing was that the girl who’d called her up first on the dress was wearing sleeveless herself in one of her pics (same with a few of the others), likewise a hijabi girl who’d been slating her makeup was caked in white foundation and bright lipstick in her own profile pic..
I didn’t get involved in all this but I was tempted to.. What would you have done?
Not on Twitter but sometime ago, a stranger was the target of online harassment by members of a subculture I consider myself part of. On some forums where the incident was discussed, I did mention among other things that I didn’t condone their actions. It was more of a thing to get my 2 cents in rather than any sense of duty.