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Thread: So now McDonalds is trending because a female cop, exhausted and hungry, used her cell phone to vent, seemingly about the service, but it was far deeper than that.
2) I watched her video, now gone viral--the taunting and derision against her almost universal--and what I saw was a woman in deep emotional distress. It wasn't about the food at all. It was about her feelings of distrust and paranoia.
3)She says clearly her anxiety levels were high because she couldn't see how her food was being made. She seemed afraid that someone was going to put something in it to harm her. Her stress level, her crying, wasn't because McDonalds service was slow...
4)...it was because she's literally falling apart before our eyes. She talks about giving cops a break, asking us to consider how hard the work is, how stressed she is AT THAT MOMENT. She's begging for some understanding.
5) And now she's the subject of such ridicule she's trending on Twitter. People are passing around the McDonalds address and phone number. Soon they'll know her name, too, and it'll go viral. She'll be trending all day because people are idiots about this crap.
6) You can read this and come at me all you want. I don't care. I'm not falling apart because of anxiety and exhaustion, so lay it on me. But don't think you're going to win this with snark or personal attacks, because you're not. I know a mental breakdown when I see one.
7) If your idea of Twitter fun is to add cruelty on top of cruelty I don't want to know you. I'll block you, I don't care who you are.
If you can't show a little pity for this woman, you're not someone I would ever want to know, anyway.
If you can't show a little pity for this woman, you're not someone I would ever want to know, anyway.
8) This kind of Twitter swarm is ugly and it's growing. I see it every day here and the cruelty isn't righteous, it's entertaining. You're having fun at someone else's expense and their humanity eludes you. There's someone in the White House just like that and we hate him for it.
9) Just stop. Stop and think. If you're ready and eager to pounce on ever human frailty it's you who's the problem. People say Twitter isn't real life. Right. Tell that to your victims. Even the crying ones. /End.
