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Yikes! What an incredibly brave blog to write. I can't even begin to fathom what life has been like for her over the last 10 years.

I don't know any of the backstory to this, so I'm taking the blog at face value. Even if only 1% of what she say is accurate (and I'm inclined to lean the opposite way), it's absolutely horrendous.

How is it possible that people behave this way? I don't understand what the line of justification can be. It's just cold-hearted, mean and vicious behaviour. I can't understand what benefit is drawn from treating someone like this.

Is there by chance a theory of sociopathy that covers this kind of behaviour?

I hope I never, ever make the terrible mistake of even unknowingly treating someone in this manner.



People maintain their self-image by doing down others. That's all it is.

It happens that this is an extreme example of this common phenomenon. Some men find successful women extremely threatening.




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