One is Mia Freedman, media mogul and founder of the highly successful website “Mamamia” the other is Australia’s PR powerhouse Roxy Jacenko, founder of Sweaty Betty, a hugely successful PR and marketing company. And it seems to be to OK to spurn the women who have transgressed, because they are white, thin, successful and affluent. Other women, online bullies, or “trolls”, leaping on the pile of verbal brawling, attacking another woman, online bullying taken to the extreme. The online, anonymous criticism is brutal, and I am talking about sites like the Daily Mail comments section, where the reaction to the supposed “crime” is completely disproportionate. I felt it was important to address – the dragging down of successful women online for supposed transgressions only being part of a story. Over the past few weeks I have seen two high-profile noteworthy cases where online bullies have had a field day dragging down successful privileged women who, like the rest of us, are flawed.
