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Mud Cake
God
100 messages was all it took to tip her over the edge.
Various stories are going about on this and one that 4chan (whoever, whatever) they are were sending pictures of dead bodies to her too.
Charlotte made the mistake of reposting all the abusive messages and that made it worse, but whatever happened to "sticks and stones will break your bones, but names will never hurt you?" as the old saying goes.
eliza
Active Member
Guessing she has had to put up with more than the 100 messages, besides people have tipped for a lot less than that. Regardless we all have our own breaking point and Charlotte reached hers, I hope she can get through this I thought she was a hoot on Celeb Apprentice and very entertaining on ANTM.
ichi
Active Member
Charlotte did not 'make a mistake' by retweeting abusive tweets - the dicks being abusive made mistakes over and over again by not behaving as a normal human being would.
I am all for this new wave of expose the asshat. No one has the right to be a vile hateful person in anonymity. You want to be a bgigman and abuse someone then do it without hiding behind some username
I am all for this new wave of expose the asshat. No one has the right to be a vile hateful person in anonymity. You want to be a bgigman and abuse someone then do it without hiding behind some username
Mud Cake
God
Not disagreeing with any of the above.
It would be nice to also see groups like 4chan somehow made to face some kind of penalty..... Various stories say they were part of this whole mess.
tarn_seiche
Give Us Live Action BB
It was a twitter attack, not a heart attack.
This whole thing reads like a media beat-up. I am guessing that Charlotte deliberately stirred up the trolls and retweeted their obscenities so that she would have a topical story to take to the old media. I am glad she has friends, and can get immediate help for psychiatric illness (there are so many mentally ill people in crisis who don't get the help they need when they need it) but there is something wrong with blaming other people for your own actions. And it is good to see the police taking a twitter attack so seriously. No doubt the fast response is part of a new awareness of the 20,000 women who are violently attacked in their homes in NSW every year, and a determination to take seriously a criminal behaviour that results in about one NSW woman a fortnight being murdered.
I mean, it is not as if you can unintentionally return abuse to every troll that tweets you, or get one sacked from their job for tweeting abuse at you. It seems like Charlotte thinks her celebrity status gives her rights over and above her fellow tweeters, or that she wants every Australian tweet in their real name (even if Charlotte Dawson is already taken), or perhaps she is trying to get the NSW government to revive the National Internet Filter - only this time with an app to catch trolls.
This whole thing reads like a media beat-up. I am guessing that Charlotte deliberately stirred up the trolls and retweeted their obscenities so that she would have a topical story to take to the old media. I am glad she has friends, and can get immediate help for psychiatric illness (there are so many mentally ill people in crisis who don't get the help they need when they need it) but there is something wrong with blaming other people for your own actions. And it is good to see the police taking a twitter attack so seriously. No doubt the fast response is part of a new awareness of the 20,000 women who are violently attacked in their homes in NSW every year, and a determination to take seriously a criminal behaviour that results in about one NSW woman a fortnight being murdered.
I mean, it is not as if you can unintentionally return abuse to every troll that tweets you, or get one sacked from their job for tweeting abuse at you. It seems like Charlotte thinks her celebrity status gives her rights over and above her fellow tweeters, or that she wants every Australian tweet in their real name (even if Charlotte Dawson is already taken), or perhaps she is trying to get the NSW government to revive the National Internet Filter - only this time with an app to catch trolls.
eliza
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I guess it is hard to put yourself in someone else's place, I know here over the years sometimes I've been able to keep my fingers off the keyboard and not respond and other times when I should have STFU I didn't. There are so many variables as to why I may or may not respond to something I am "outraged" 
by and most of the variables are nothing to do with the forum.
by and most of the variables are nothing to do with the forum.
Mud Cake
God
Is there a hint of sarcasm in there??
I'm not impressed that just because she's a "celeb" that she can get admitted right away to a hospital taking away a bed from someone that might really need it, and then vacate that bed to go chat to 60 minutes, then go back to that bed to "recover" more.... I find that very odd ...
Oh and if anyone thinks she's all roses and sunshine see her on the Apprentice. She sure can dish it out but can't seem to take it.
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eliza
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How have you come to the conclusion that she didn't need the bed? If someone is suicidal which she may or may not have been they get kept in and if there is no bed, they get a barouche.
Regardless, they must have felt she needed observation for a day or two. Not sure about St Vincents but the Royal Adelaide has a short stay Psych ward near the general ER, pretty sure most hospitals have the same.
If she just wanted to go somewhere for a rest she'd be needing to use her private health insurance (if she has it) and go to a Private Psych hospital.
Energizer Bunny
Well-Known Member
many hospitals have centres where if anyone suffering from anything "cant cope" they can be admitted. its not like they are taking up beds of little kids with broken arms. its just a way of being in the care of a medical professional and them judging if maybe you just need a sedative for the night and a good sleep or maybe you're going to need further ongoing care that they arrange. one of my friends works in a centre like this and they are not a 'hospital' with operating rooms and lots of medicines and tools, they are simple rooms with beds with a psychologist and some social workers, and can maybe administer a seditive/valium and they get lots of counselling help. similar to when you call lifeline and they chat thru things with you but maybe you need a physical presence.
anywhooo I do think its a bit of a media beat up.
anywhooo I do think its a bit of a media beat up.
Mud Cake
God
I get it Melly and Eliza but what makes it odd is that she was able to hop out of bed run to 60 Minutes to do an interview and hop back into that bed..... Really Charlotte so hard done by that you had to do a tell all interview?
eliza
Active Member
If you get it why were you talking about her taking a bed from someone who needs it, how do you now she didn't need it. People experience reactive psychological problems that need immediate admission for the short term. Ie: 24/48 hours.
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Emcee
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Whether she "vacated" the bed to give an interview is neither here nor there.
And if someone needs admittance to hospital for psychiatric care (possibly suicidal - we don;t know), then they get admitted, then and there. They aren't taking a bed from anyone. Their celebrity status isn't relevant. If someone is in urgent need of counselling, mental health care or even meds, they can't just sit them on a chair and say "Yeah, we'll get to you when we get a spare bed".
And if someone needs admittance to hospital for psychiatric care (possibly suicidal - we don;t know), then they get admitted, then and there. They aren't taking a bed from anyone. Their celebrity status isn't relevant. If someone is in urgent need of counselling, mental health care or even meds, they can't just sit them on a chair and say "Yeah, we'll get to you when we get a spare bed".
Meglos
HAVE A NECTARINE, GONK
And whether she's a celebrity or not, online abuse isn't a joke. It's easy to say she overreacted, but haven't you, Mudcake, been upset by things people have said about you online? Amplify that by 1000 and you might see why it might not be so easy to "turn the computer off", and why some of it may cause psychological distress. Which warrants a hospital bed, regardless of whether you think she "needs" it or not.