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Did you even read the article?

- She was jobless for a period of time, and there's a lot of stress that comes with that.

- Her family seemed to be set on disowning her for tarnishing their name.

- She can't date without someone Googling her and most likely being turned off by what they find.




Turned off by what? A tweet ... unless for couple of million participants in the oppression olympics, for the sane people having said or done something offensive is not a big deal.


If so many people were offended on the internet, is it that big of a stretch that people in real life might be turned off too? Just because you or I don't think it's a big deal does not mean that others might share the same opinion. I could easily see how someone might be turned off, especially before actually meeting the person.


Actually yes. Internet is not real and is the place where everyone overreacts.

As long as she is above the hot/crazy line, she won't be turned down dating for such a petty "offence"


You do realize that a concept in HIMYM does not accurately apply in real life, right?


>After that, she left New York, going as far away as she could, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She flew there alone and got a volunteer job doing P.R. for an NGO working to reduce maternal-mortality rates.

Anyone for whom something even remotely resembling this can be said certainly has had a thick mat of privilege to land on, even if the experience were difficult, as it seems to have been.




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