Holy hell. This woman is crazy (here). I guess I should pay more attention to the news, but it’s so ridiculous – probably because of stories like the one involving this Lori Drew lady. I didn’t really follow the story about the girl who committed suicide, supposedly due to myspace bullying, but I saw that no charges were going to be pressed today online, and via article comments, came across Mrs. Drew’s personal blog, titled Megan Had it Coming. Nope. That’s not an editorial mistake (but maybe a run-on sentence). That’s the real name of the blog.
After reading her so-called reasoning, the one thing I was left without was comprehension. I was provided many insights into this crazy woman’s mind, a few is-she-out-of-her-fucking-mind(?) chuckles, and even a miniscule amount understanding, but I definitely couldn’t comprehend her actions. I couldn’t comprehend why an adult would act the way she did, possibly be partly to blame for a child’s suicidal actions, yet vehemently deny any wrongdoing whatsoever. I mean, this chick is heartless…an almost archetype sociopath.
For the two of you out there who may not know what happened, Mrs. Drew felt like her daughter, Sarah’s, once-close friend, Megan, was negatively affecting her daughter. After what seems to be a successful attempt at manipulating her daughter into disliking Megan, Megan fought back, and supposedly starting bulling Sarah and trying to make Sarah see that her parents were manipulating her into not liking Megan. Yeah, it’s confusing. According to Mrs. Drew, Megan was a bully to other children as well (she probably was, but whatever), so to “protect” her daughter and give Megan “a taste of her own medicine”, she created a fake MySpace profile for a fictional persona named Josh Evans. The purpose of Josh, was to get Megan to like Josh, then open up to Josh about how much she hated Sarah and other kids at school, etc., to provide Mrs. Drew with some weird enjoyment, I guess. This woman wanted to trick Megan into talking about other kids in order to turn those kids into Megan’s enemies. It was really an interesting idea, and it obviously worked. Mrs. Drew was able to effectively manipulate an impressionable 13-year-old girl into liking a fake boy, before cyber-dumping her. She created enemies and provided those enemies with the login information necessary for these other teenagers to taunt, tease, and bully Megan via Josh’s profile. Just when you think this plot is getting good, Megan, a young girl with a supposed history of being treated for depression, decides to successfully commit suicide by hanging herself with a belt in her bedroom.
Now, I understand that kids kill themselves, kill others, and do other rash things when they’re bullied, picked on, outcast, etc. The fact that this troubled girl was actually on anti-depression medicine and killed herself has it’s own commentary in itself, but the real troubling thing here is this Lori Drew woman. Here you have a mother who is claiming to protect her child by attempting to destroy another child. I always thought that when your child comes to you with a problem, you work with your child to strengthen your child to deal with said problem. Very rarely should the parents actually need to get involved. I mean, we’re talking about young teenagers here. Getting picked on while trying to figure out yourself and the world around you is part of growing up. That’s the time where you learn to stand up for yourself. You learn to truly deal with social situations. You either fight, or get beat up. You either try to fit in, or you reject that silly juvenile standard of “normal”. You learn about cool. You learn about mean. You learn about your body. You learn what it takes to sort of survive in this fucked up society. Like I said in my last post, parenting really goes a long way in how people turn out. This lady didn’t try to parent her child, and teach her how to deal with the situation. That is, if the situation even needed to be dealt with. These are kids. They say things they don’t really mean, or understand. They’re kids for God’s sake. This lady really seemed to take some minor thing and go insane over it. You would think that if Megan really bothered her daughter, that Sarah and Megan could avoid each other or work it out like most kids do. Was there really a need to create a fake love interest? Was there a need to bully her? I don’t think so.
Bullies grow up, figure out what they were, and usually change for the better. If they don’t, they end up being the one’s that are ostracized. Life sort of has a way of fixing most things naturally. This lady obviously became a little obsessed with the whole thing, and very overprotective of her daughter’s life. My best guess is that this Lori person had a rough time as a child. Maybe she had buckteeth…maybe she was overweight…maybe she had to dress in less-than-trendy clothing…maybe her family was poor…maybe she lived in a trailer…maybe she had 4 arms and a dick and a weird compulsion to constantly touch herself. Who knows, but this woman is truly nuts.
It just seems like no one wins in this whole thing. One family is left searching for answers as to why their daughter committed suicide. Mrs. Drew’s family is probably just as messed up, but in a different way. Her daughter, Sarah, now has to deal with the fact that her mother is a nutcase, while also coping with the awkward eyes of her peers watching her and mentally processing how crazy her mom is (and her mom thought the bullying was bad before). There’s a lot of hatred flying the family’s way because of the juvenile actions of this insecure mother online, probably in-person, and even by me. Ha ha. How can she possibly justify her actions? I don’t know. Read her blog, and get back to me. Until then, I think we can all agree that Lori Drew’s apathetic viewpoint, and desperate attempt to avoid accountability in this whole situation, definitely shows that she’s a self-absorbed, overbearing, self-righteous twat…and a prime example of way too many parents and adults in this society. Hey, at least she’s not still free to harass other children that happen to pick on her fragile daughter. Oh…nevermind.
