Today, I ran across an article about a woman who killed her 8-yr old boy who was autistic. She was labeled a "socialite" in the title, which con-notates a rich woman who has nothing better to do than go to parties. She had previously claimed the boy had been abused by a cult. There wasn't a lot of additional information about the murder, but her ex-husband called her a devoted mother and was shocked by the news.
To me, a woman who kills her own 8-yr old son, a boy with disabilities, must have had some psychological issues. I mean, who in their right mind would do that, right? Without knowing anything else, I think most people would come to that conclusion. Think of Andrea Yates. She was in a state of psychosis when she killed her children.
The first comment I read was, "Socialite = trash with money." I replied with "The woman obviously had psychological issues. She should receive treatment, not ridicule. The whole cult thing was a warning that was ignored." Someone else replied to my comment with, "while i disregard what the OP said......this woman murdered her son....while she certainly needs treatment, a little ridicule is certainly in line as well". To which I replied,
"If you ever had a family member with a severe mental illness who hurt someone - you would not say that. This is certainly not a time for ridicule. There is nothing funny about this. Yes, she murdered her son. A mother who murders her little boy, who had claimed that he had been controlled by a cult, is obviously not well. Just because she was rich does not mean she can't have the same problems as people like my brother, Paul, who had schizophrenia.
He pulled a knife on us once. If he had killed me, would you have ridiculed him too? But then again, it wouldn't have gotten in the news because I am not famous or rich.
Your ignorance is showing."
Another person wrote this comment, , "Give the wench the chair.' So now the "socialite" is a "wench".
I created my own original comment, which read,
"Posters like C and A come here to show off that they can make cute, sarcastic remarks that does nothing to forward any really discussion on the issue. Without thinking they assume that someone who is rich is obviously trash. Without thinking, someone who is obviously in need of psychiatric help is called a "wench".
She is someone's daughter. She needs treatment, not ridicule.
Yes, she did a horrible, horrible, thing, but someone who can kill their own little boy is obviously not well. That she is now subject to these childish remarks shows how low this society has sunk."
One person wrote a very thoughtful comment, thanking me for my attempts to enlighten these fools. The person who wrote the original remark about the socialite being trash replied, "cry me a river". She later went to another article where about someone who beat his wife and replied to one of my comments with, "maybe he was 'mentally ill'." She was trying to egg me into an argument, I think. I ignored it.
Yup, that's what she wrote. I am assuming the person is a woman based on her screen name, but it could be a man, I don't know. In any case, not only is his/her ignorance showing, her utter lack of common decency and empathy is actually a little scary.
But this motivates me more than anything. I guess I am the kind of person that needs to be pissed off to keep going. So, I thank her/him for it. I will save the comments and revisit them. They will help feed my motivation when it gets low.
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