Those are pictures of some of the messages that people sent to one of my past YouTube blogs, "Lena Kochman Boston."
I apologize a lot when I have to sneeze or cough around people, because of the connotation of "your vagina smells" that such gestures got from a few seconds of coughing in a video published by Leonardo DiCaprio in 2010 that the conglomerate immediately caused to explode in an epidemic of misogynist social behavior. I try to be sure that someone is trying to harass me and doesn't just have to cough or sneeze. I also ignore a lot of it, because there's so much denial about it and it happens to me so often that it's futile to try to address it every time that someone does it.
"sweenny seeker" wrote hundreds of messages to this YouTube blog before I knew that anyone was writing to it. She (I think the person is a woman although I don't know) is a good example of someone who exploits the idea that the target of her bullying is mentally ill. She's had many written conversations, as a guest at my blog, with guests at my blog, talking with them about how I'm schizophrenic and how it's frustrating that I just can't understand that I'm wrong about everything. The most persistent bullies about mental illness at my blogs usually like to have those written conversations with other guests, acting as if they are authorities about me and my craziness.
People who don't know what it's like to be the target of bullies who use the idea of their target being mentally ill as the excuse for their bullying might not realize from everything that she says that bullying is her goal. Sometimes, that type of bully talks or acts in a way that nobody can misinterpret, though.
People who are mentally ill or who have ever had diagnoses of mental illness get bullied ALL THE TIME, everywhere, including by staff in mental hospitals.
That's one of the reasons that I'm publishing the messages that people send to me. I'm sure that most of the public, and all of the powerful conglomerate, have no idea what the stigma of mental illness does to people. Discrimination against "mental illness" has had none of the recognition that other groups who are discriminated against have gotten.
Then, society blames or patronizes the targets of this type of abuse for never getting better. That happens all the way through the mental health system. You have to know that system to get something positive out of it; the chances of it hurting you more than it helps are always high.
I don't choose the Web addresses that videos get when I publish them at YouTube.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, December 13, 2015 @ 6:21 p.m.
