{"id":114884,"date":"2021-05-22T09:22:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=114884"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T09:22:05","slug":"i-called-out-chrissy-teigens-cyberbullying-years-ago-politicized-cancel-culture-wont-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/i-called-out-chrissy-teigens-cyberbullying-years-ago-politicized-cancel-culture-wont-help\/","title":{"rendered":"I called out Chrissy Teigen’s cyberbullying years ago. Politicized cancel culture won’t help."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chrissy Teigen attends the 62nd Annual GrammyAwards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy\/TNS) (Photo: Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

Model and social media personality Chrissy Teigen publicly came after me five years ago because I called her a bully in a VH1 piece, \u201cChrissy Teigen Is Twitter\u2019s Biggest Hypocrite.\u201d I had watched as she went on a Twitter tirade against random people she thought were trolling her, retaliating with unnecessary name-calling\u00a0\u2013 and more bullying.<\/p>\n

I called it out in my piece. I didn\u2019t get why she\u2019d use her powerful platform to make a point about bullying by doing that very toxic thing. Even your local high school bully would blush.<\/p>\n

Teigen responded by going after VH1 on Twitter then attacking my personal account\u00a0in all its peasantry. VH1 ultimately caved to Teigen\u2019s wrath and pulled down the piece. Teigen\u00a0blocked me while mainstream outlets like HuffPost praised her as \u201ca boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Low and behold, she\u2019s back. Reality star Courtney Stodden recently revealed Teigen used to publicly harass them and\u00a0privately message them, telling them to commit suicide.\u00a0Stodden\u00a0was just 16. Turns out, Teigen has a track record of vicious tweets aimed at famous women over the years:<\/p>\n

\u25ba About musician Avril Lavigne, Teigen tweeted: \u201cIf u told me I could have 1 kid, but it would be exactly like avril, I would choose to have a barren, sterile existence that ends when I die\u201d<\/p>\n

\u25ba About actress Lindsay Lohan, Teigen tweeted: \u201cLindsay adds a few more slits to her wrists when she sees emma stone\u201d<\/p>\n

\u25ba About Republican politician Sarah Palin, Teigen said: \u201cI don\u2019t want much from Sarah Palin. I just want her to admit partial fault, then shoot herself in the face. Is that wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n

These tweets are outright offensive. They shame bodies. Taunt suicide. They\u2019re misogynistic and degrading. And there are many more examples. Yet the person behind them is woke royalty who\u2019s been put on a pedestal. Given the Twitter lords\u2019 censoring obsession, you\u2019d think they\u2019d block her five times over by now.<\/p>\n

Cancel culture goes round and around<\/h2>\n

This isn\u2019t a plea to cancel Chrissy Teigen.<\/p>\n

Cancel culture is not my friend. It\u2019s more like a stalker ex who gets under your skin, has you on edge, and just won\u2019t quit. Like everything, it\u2019s become political. Both sides hate it for different reasons, yet they\u2019re the first to delegitimize anyone they don\u2019t agree with. The left goes after the right, the right after the left. Round and round we go.<\/p>\n

Class of 2021: <\/strong>I didn’t have a traditional senior year of high school. Maybe that’s OK.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I acknowledge that the left generally gets more leeway (hence, Teigen). And it’s absurd that a joke you made years ago\u00a0could be your demise. Basically if you\u2019re not a perfect specimen of woke ideology, you\u2019re screwed. But alas, the right, like conservative commentator Candace Owens, has the perfect cure to stop this madness it despises so much: Cancel Chrissy Teigen! An eye for an eye until we\u2019re all taken out.<\/p>\n

Our problem is bigger than petty tit for tat.<\/p>\n

My issue is with the media, specifically female-centric outlets. They\u2019d rather live on a deserted island with Jack Nicholson\u2019s “The Shining” character than call out Teigen. They\u2019re that committed to their woke narrative. Teigen reigns as their champion, despite purposefully hurting and degrading women and literally acting in a way that is against everything they\u2019re about.<\/p>\n

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Chrissy Teigen has issued an apology to Courtney Stodden. "I\u2019m mortified and sad at who I used to be," the cookbook author posted to Twitter. (Photo: ANGELA WEISS, AFP\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

Bustle hasn\u2019t covered this story. Then again, it was \u201cvery heartbreaking\u201d to them when she left Twitter in March because she was tired of the negativity. Rich, isn\u2019t it? Sites like HelloGiggles beat around the bush and made excuses for her.\u00a0New York\u00a0Magazine\u2019s female-centric site The Cut covered it over a week later. A\u00a0Refinery29 post said, \u201cA Twitter without Chrissy Teigen isn\u2019t the kind of Twitter I want to tweet in.\u201d I\u2019d encourage them to go back and read those tweets again.<\/p>\n

Let’s get a dialogue going<\/h2>\n

Do they not see how destructive this is? Politics and narratives supersede everything. It’s sad because this shouldn\u2019t even be about politics. Or narratives.<\/p>\n

In the end, this only hurts the causes they try to stand for. For instance, I interviewed an A-list actress who said we shouldn\u2019t ostracize men from the #MeToo movement, but\u00a0rather we should let them in so they understand. My editor turned down that angle because how dare we prop men up.<\/p>\n

Some people would\u00a0rather shut men out of the conversation they need to be in to change their behavior, and villainize them. In reality, including men could create more empathy and actually achieve the outcome they want.<\/p>\n

Apply this to almost anything. Racism. Trans issues. Misogyny. We need compassion and understanding, but we need to be free enough in our dialogue to get there. Instead,\u00a0people are terrified of blinking the wrong way, afraid of selective cancelling that only seems to apply to some people and\u00a0depending on the day.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Ferber in Los Angeles, in October 2018. (Photo: Family handout)<\/span><\/p>\n

This spring, the first Black “Bachelor” Matt James and his white girlfriend Rachael Kirkconnell broke up when racially insensitive photos of her resurfaced. The controversy was massive and cost Chris Harrison his longtime hosting role for defending her. Despite everything, the couple is back together. It seems more fulfilling for them to grow through it versus shutting the other out. Unfortunately, we may never know what Harrison learned since he\u2019s out in the canceled abyss.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only a matter of time before another celebrity is the subject of the public jury. It\u2019s time we change our approach. Silencing people won\u2019t make them change. Getting them in a dialogue might.<\/p>\n

I challenge these outlets to put politics aside and welcome different ideas, if it means getting people to connect and grow in a way that actually means something.<\/p>\n

And I challenge Teigen to use this moment to get into a real, open discussion with her millions of followers about bullying and its repercussions. Get in their minds, and let them into hers. Who knows. Maybe one day Chrissy Teigen will save your life, not tell you to take it.<\/p>\n

Taylor Ferber is an entertainment reporter in Los Angeles and\u00a0is the host of the\u00a0\u201cCancel Me, Baby!\u201d podcast. Follow her on TalkToMeTaylor.com and Instagram @talktometaylor.<\/em><\/p>\n

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