After being told by Christoph and reading a journalism review by Samantha Henig, I feel sympathy for the woman known as Dog Poop Girl. People thought that she was irresponsible and I think so. It was all her own fault. I wonder who she thought would help her clean up her dog's disgusting thing. But in this incident, she was absolutely not alone. The person who shot that video and people online who made she suffered a lot were also wrong. The person could tell staff to fine her for a lack of civic virtue but he didn't; instead, s/he posted the video clip online and the woman's nightmare started.
She was insulted. She was humiliated. She lost her privacy. She lost her job. She lost her dignity. Her parents and relatives were implicated in this incident. And above all, she lost everything that she didn't deserve to lose. Was she that unforgivable? Has she done some horrific crime? Was this just a patronising excuse for people to treat her like this?
Thanks for the interesting link - this does raise another question, which is whether some kind of laws or guidelines need to be developed to keep the kind of 'cyber-posse' that we saw in this case under control? What do you think - is there a solution to this kind of problem?
ReplyDeleteYes, this kind of behaviour should be under control by laws. However, laws, obviously, are not the panacea. The culprit was the people who treated the girl very badly. If they'd had put themselves in her shoes, they would've felt very upset. She was leading a miserable life that time. I think there must be something which can help solve this problem, but it is very difficult to do so. Like chewing gum, the government has already enacted the law, but we still see much 'black' chewing gum left over on the street. Rubbish bins are everywhere. But why don't people throw it in the bin? The situation is the same as Dog Poop Girl's. People could control themselves. But why did they keep on humiliating the girl that time?
ReplyDeleteI also think that the woman is very poor. Both the man who uploaded the video and this woman, would have no idea of the consequences of the woman. It is unpredictable. >.<
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