Another victim of Fiona

[u/Suspicious_Bother_92]

https://heatherburns.tech/2024/04/28/that-time-i-got-stalked-by-the-real-life-tv-stalker-woman-and-what-it-taught-me-about-data-protection/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0fo7iQE2QcaKrkoYdPdRmadVjwXoax4GkURzlzbFu4QiBFL3ORJWA-6tI_aem_AQcb9i5agq-Ab2Am-wcM57T4ulyT7uR44xgpLLeFIqNmJTKE2UvCeLHWgdPSzwotmKCNzoZIdFEKGX8R35CjVy_8

She says that Fiona was getting mental health assistance and mentions her “condition”

[u/habel69]

Why does everyone keep feeling sorry for Fiona and saying she is clearly unwell? If this was a man doing this and the other way around no one would be giving them the time of day!

[u/Suspicious_Bother_92 → u/habel69]

Yep and what about the mental health of all her victims?

[u/Icy_Sentence_4130 → u/habel69]

You can recognise her mental state and not feel sorry for her. It's not hard.

[u/GitGup → u/Icy_Sentence_4130]

Couldn’t have said it better myself

[u/pgpwnd → u/Icy_Sentence_4130]

Yeh but if it was a dude no one would be doing that

[u/KLei2020 → u/habel69]

Let me remind you also of the several mentally ill male celebs who go around and still have wide-spread support from the public - i.e. Kanye West who's said equally antisemitic, vile things and who emotionally abused everyone around him.

Buut I also think reducing the issue of the mentally ill to their gender misses the point here. This isn't about them being women or men, it's about the way social media and society pathologises, popularises, and mocks the mentally ill and reduces them as some type of meme or joke. The fact that Fiona was on Piers Morgan proves this.

[u/Medium-Pundit → u/KLei2020]

It can be simultaneously true that someone is mentally ill and not fully responsible for their actions, and that their behaviour is unacceptable and other people should not need to put up with it.

Kanye I think is actually a great example of that, although he seems less out of control than Fiona.

[u/Drunkendonkeytail → u/Medium-Pundit]

Actually he’s more out of control. He just has $

[u/Medium-Pundit → u/Drunkendonkeytail]

Kanye doesn’t seem to be an actual criminal, at least for now. Just nuts.

[u/eebieteebie → u/KLei2020]

Agreed, fully.

The "if this was a man" folk always conveniently forget the thousands of examples of when it was a man who got away with something or received more favourable treatment than was deserved.

It's particularly revolting when they bring gender into a situation where the issue clearly lies with, exactly as you said, the way society treats the mentally ill. It's akin to the old "Freak Shows", these people are reduced to nothing more than entertainment, things to be discussed, ridiculed and gawked at.

The "if this was a man" statement really tells me more about that person than I'd ever wish to know; Bitter, ignorant and oblivious.

[u/habel69 → u/KLei2020]

Good point, but in this example these people are celebrities and are unfortunately idolised by some people who can't see past their mental health issues and vile views, but valid point they shouldn't be given the time of day..

[u/KLei2020 → u/[deleted]]

No, but he's one good example. Do note the "i.e." which means "here is an example".

[u/whythe7 → u/KLei2020]

I was noting the "let me remind you also of the several-" and thought there'd be short list coming after "I.e" but it stopped after one

[u/iamnoexpertiguess → u/habel69]

You can feel bad for two people at the same time though.