[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

She quite possibly could have been.

What you have to think about is the sheer volume of comments posts attract. If you walk down the street and someone yells racist / homophobic / sexist / ageist whatever comments at you, it is heard by you and whoever else happens to be around and hear (ie a handful of people). If someone says the same words on an online platform it has a potential audience of millions. The anonymous element of it also emboldens others to hurl abusive words too and the snowball effect grows. You wake up to tens of hundreds of awful messages aimed directly at you and not let it affect you - whether you are a strong, mentally healthy individual at some point that **** will wear you down and if you said it wouldn't I wouldn't believe you.

Fair point.

Tbh, I hadn't really thought of it like this until reading this post.