Amanda Todd revisted.

I ran across a youtube video that made my blood boil, and I got up today thinking of how I could answer, though probably in 500 characters or less.

The video is from T.J. "The Amazing Atheist." I used to subscribe to his channel, until he took views that I found to be shameful to the very name of atheism. Now he reminds me of Rush Limbaugh.

T.J. doesn't like all the sympathy Amanda Todd got. He pointed out that for what she did (being video'd online flashing her tits when she was 12) she didn't deserve the sympathy other people who get bullied deserve.

I think there are things that make Amanda Todd's bullying much more heinous than other cases. Misogyny is the main one: despising a female for her sexual choices and refusing to forgive her even after the she's dead. What she did as a minor was wrong but didn't hurt anybody. That's all that needs to be said. Nobody died, nobody was deprived no families were broken up because Amanda Todd flashed her tits. What she did was a misdemeanor for juvenile court.  

The actual bullies were in league with a pedophile, who knew exactly how to manipulate them. Where was the bullying and harassment for the adult who persuaded a minor to flash her tits, then used it to extort more nude videos from Todd?

Then those misogynistic, pedophile-enabling bullies wouldn't back off when it was clear Todd was suicidal. That's deep hatred. That's a hatred that comes from the dark evil corner of the human soul where genocide originates. That's the sort of hatred that should put a person in Hell. It makes me wish there were a Hell just so such hateful people would end up there. I hope it would be in the same pit of torment as the pedophiles. As far as I'm concerned, the people who kept harassing her after she became suicidal and made suggestions on how to succeed at it stopped being mere bullies and started being accessories to murder.

What's more, they won't stop hating her after she's dead. You still have posts saying she was a slut and doesn't deserve any sympathy. That is some major league despising there. I think if I were subjected to that and I couldn't get away from it, I don't think I could survive.

So, the argument goes with T.J. that Todd doesn't "deserve" pity as much as some other dead, bullied kids. Oh, horrors, T.J., a slut is getting something she doesn't deserve! Like getting something one doesn't "deserve" doesn't happen millions of times to millions of people a year. I'm sure Amanda Todd's sense of entitlement is bloated as a result of all the honor. If only she weren't dead, it would obviously make her a spoiled, bratty bitch.

Who says feeling bad about Todd makes it impossible to feel bad about other bullied kids? If people didn't have to argue against the late-comer bullies all the time, you probably wouldn't notice anybody missing any sympathy.

Nobody says Amanda Todd is a role model for anything, but what happened to her was a tragedy. What was done to her, far out of proportion to what she did,  was base human cruelty as much as any lynch mob. Tragedies invoke pity, and like people can control their emotions and just aim them surgically. That's not the way it works. Often, our emotions lead us, and there's no rationalization or judgment about it.

Amanda Todd's death wasn't just a case of bullying. It was misogynistic bullying, by both males and females. It was a case of pedophile-led misogynistic bullying. It was a case of persistent, pedophile-led, misogynistic bullying. I think I've made my argument that it was more despicable than most and is in a category all its own. And to anyone who says her morals negated sympathy, I say fuck you all.