too boggled for schadenfreude

[holli]

 So, for reasons that don't need explaining at this juncture, I just googled the names of three girls who bullied me in junior high.

One of them does roller derby in Arizona and appears to have turned out to be an okay-ish human, and at least now she has an appropriate outlet for her excess aggression.

One is an event planner who takes a lot of duckface selfies, which is not even a tiny bit surprising.

And the third? The third is, apparently, currently suing the makers of the naked dating reality show she appeared on for not blurring out her ladyparts. Based on everything she's quoted as saying in various articles on the subject, she has not acquired one single ounce of self-awareness since we were fourteen.

Holy SHIT, you guys. I can't even gloat. This is too weird to gloat about.

Comments

[loki_of_sassgaard]

omg.

I've always wondered what compels people to do reality TV in the first place.

[minim_calibre]

HOLY CRAP! Your bully was the Naked Dating lawsuit person?

This amuses me to no end. (Lilly's BFF's dad went through this period where he was OBSESSED with the naked reality shows, so we heard all about them while mocking him for it.)

[holli]

right??? She was actually my sleepaway camp bully; the other two were school-based. She spent two and a half summers being pointlessly nasty to me and then got kicked out of camp halfway through the session when we were fourteen.

I have a very vivid memory of unpacking my (carefully chosen, and to my mind insufficient) shelf's worth of books on the first day of camp when I was 12. She saw them, and asked "Why did you bring so many books??" in the same tones you might expect someone to ask "Why did you bring so many dead rats??"

Confused, I replied "To... read them?" and thus made an enemy for life.

She also spent a lot (like A LOT) of time talking about how she was on her school wrestling team at home; I think the subtext was meant to be 'and therefore I could beat you up if I so chose, but just now I don't feel like it.'

[crantz]

She sounds like a charming and reasonable person.

[brownbetty]

I did not realize naked dating was a reality tv Thing!

[holli]

ME NEITHER.

[brownbetty]

AMAZING. The interesting thing is, how, remember when reality TV was gaining ground, there was the occasional SFnal short about how the final end-point of reality TV was going to be Battle Royale type gladiatorial combat to the death, but actually, I think Naked Dating is much more the purest possible form of reality tv.

[st_aurafina]

My eyes are like O.O right now!I haven't had much luck googling the people that bullied me - I think I'm just out of the age range for them to have a big internet presence - but I really hope there's something as spectacular as that waiting for me to discover.