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Engagement baiting: Enabling abusers.
When did women supporting women, turn into women supporting what ultimately harms other women?
I knew someone who always had full cleavage in all her pics. She did it to monetize her social media. There was a man following her, married, that she would always heart react the comments of, and talk up. He was a ‘regular,’ you could call him. Wowing, drooling, and saying how hot she looks. He was emotionally cheating on his wife, and this former friend was the other woman. It doesn’t matter she only participated to make money off him. That makes it worse, cause that is manipulation.
I hope his poor wife never saw that, and began hating herself and losing her self-esteem. I was that woman who saw things and started losing self-esteem. I know how awful it feels, even when the ‘other woman’ is just in it for the money. That doesn’t make things hurt less.
I found myself apologizing to a grotesque woman (the things she was doing in her photos just from the few I unfortunately saw when dealing with her, were not typical just plain nudes, it was fetish stuff and sincerely gross). I didn’t mean a word of the apology. But I called her grotesque when calling my ex out, after he told her he’d sleep with her, and I saw the comment. She then screenshot my comment and sicced her ‘flying monkeys’ to attack me. Flying monkeys is a term that has…
