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“Hot Girls Don’t Self-Harm.”
Paighton Marie Hoffman was a young woman in Ontario (Canada), and she committed suicide sometime around late November. Here is a GoFundMe for the family, which has already exceeded its goals. There are not many details about the exact arc of her life and how it ended as it did, and that’s really not for us to know, honestly. If you look at some Facebook memorials, most of which seems to be public, you will see comments about mental health and SSRIs and “freeing yourself,” so I guess we can generally assume maybe this was a longer-term mental health issue. I get it. I have been there.
I was looking for information this morning about a different crime case, a seeming murder-suicide out of West Valley City (Utah), and usually 4Chan has details about stuff like that ahead of the media. (Don’t ask what that says about society.) I saw this woman over on 4Chan and the entire discussion was about how — and remember, 4Chan is a very notable incel haven — this girl was too hot to kill herself, and she could have had anything, and what does this say about how young women perceive themselves?
First of all, I don’t think anyone is “too hot” to do anything, much less kill themselves — which is a deeply emotional and troubling thing. That line of logic doesn’t hunt.
