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Yes, I’m still talking about #BadArtFriend. I’m not sorry about it.

To further understand the resonance of the case of Dorland v. Larson, we need to place it in the context of larger conversations in our cultural moment — namely, the misogynistic treatment of women in media. 1/
2021 was the year #FreeBritney went mainstream.

Meghan Markle’s explosive interview revealed how callously a tabloid-fed public can treat a human when they’ve been shrunk to a caricature.

With @MonicaLewinsky's new TV show, we’re reminded of just how shittily we treated her. 2/
@MonicaLewinsky Much of the criticism against Dawn Dorland’s behaviors — that she was too narcissistic, too hysterical, too earnest, too obsessed, too stalkerish — are coded in misogyny. Never mind the fact that many of these critiques have since been debunked. 3/
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As we enter week 2 of #BadArtFriend discourse, I’m seeing certain commentators trying to understand why this story has had such staying power — *why* people still seem to care so much. The simple answer?

We’ve been collectively gaslit. 1/
(If you feel like you're too unbothered or too cool to care about this, gold star for you. Feel free to mute.)

When the story first dropped, we saw a near-universal wave of disdain directed at Dawn Dorland on Twitter, and ginger (if not outright) support for Sonya Larson. 2/
Much of this initial response was marshaled by respected voices both within the literary community and the platform writ large. What’s interesting is that if you looked beyond Twitter, the tenor of the conversation was markedly different. 3/
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