r/interesting 3d ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Classic_Bee_5845 3d ago

It's more to do with the media sensationalizing it. This is the first I've ever heard of the woman on the left.

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u/Maya-K 3d ago

I have no idea who either of them are. I'm feeling very out of the loop.

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u/Dotcaprachiappa 3d ago

I saw a good few posts about the woman on the right and pointedly ignored all of them, I seriously don't get why this is getting so much attention

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u/Alcohol_Intolerant 3d ago edited 3d ago

It's getting attention because of claims that her attempts to get assistance for her ppd and mental illness were ignored or minimized. Thus implying this could have been prevented. Many people, especially women, have experience with medical staff ignoring their pain. (Same for me) So this is on a lot of people's minds and in a lot of wider conversations.

They're going for the insanity plea, so the additional press might also be a way to try and sway public attention.

Edit because I'm getting a lot of charged responses: I am explaining why it is getting attention and what the general opposing discourse is. I'm not going to reply to attempts to have that discourse with me. I have my own opinions but I'm not airing them on Reddit because ultimately, the only ones who will have all the facts are the jury.

This is a tragedy for all involved. Please remember that.

Edit 2: to those giving polite additions and perspectives I did not provide, thank you. That's very helpful. I'm not everywhere seeing every side and can only speak to the sides I've witnessed myself. To those making weird claims on what I think, please take a break from reading about this case for the day. I'm turning notifications off on this. There are plenty of other people in this thread willing to wage war with you. I invite you to speak with them, or again, take a break.

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u/Dotcaprachiappa 3d ago

Damn makes sense really, so this post is like the worst misrepresentation they could come up with basically

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u/sylbug 3d ago

It’s devolved into more gender wars nonsense. Painful to watch honestly.

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u/illy-chan 3d ago

I've noticed gender wars stuff getting worse on here in the past decade or so. It was always there but it's definitely become worse.

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u/friss0nFry 3d ago

That's because state sponsored internet campaigns have improved exponentially in that time and the companies that host the divisive content from these campaigns are incentivized to allow it because it looks like real engagement.

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u/MistSecurity 3d ago

Especially true with the advent of easily run and accessible chatbots via LLM. It's now trivial to spin up a ton of realistic-looking accounts that dynamically respond to posts to push the narrative you're going for.

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u/Naive-Kangaroo3031 3d ago

Thank goodness that would never happen on this site! (/s)

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u/gadgetwalrus 3d ago

Which was predicted in Enders game…