I’m getting so many messages and comments that are breaking my heart.

-you should have another phone line
-you shouldn’t put your number out there if you don’t want it found (I didn’t but not the point)
-this is the price of being in the public eye, comes with the territory.
-don’t you remember phone books? Everyone’s number used to be accessible, get over it.
-it was only a compliment, don’t be so cold
-what if they were young/ ND? They don’t know any better.
-just be kind, they only want to talk to someone they admire
This is victim blaming. This is why sufferers of abuse don’t come forward.

And I know people will tell me “it was just a text it wasn’t that bad”

The principal is the same.
In my original post, I didn’t shame anyone. I didn’t call names. I didn’t call myself a victim. I simply said “this is an invasion of privacy, please don’t do it.”
There’s more to the situation that I did not share, and I will not share, because I don’t owe anyone that.

Things are handled. I’m ok. I’m safe.
But I hope some of y’all will reflect on what I wrote originally- and how you perceived it, so that someday if someone has to tell you something happened to them-

You’ll really listen, and hear what they say.

2021 can start with compassion. Let’s work together on that.
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