I love your message of solidarity and mutual support in this piece, Patricia!

To extrapolate the subject matter a little further: how relevant, if at all, do you believe emotional abuse can be when it comes to online interactions?

Obviously, for most people, some random troll on the Internet isn't going to have the same magnitude of impact compared to somebody who is interactive with us in our daily lives. (The most telling sign is clearly when they have a lack of any actual photograph in the spot where their image-based avatar should go...)

But is there a case to be made for managing any degree of emotional abuse from people with whom we regularly interact on social media? I've let myself get dragged into plenty of Internet-based flame wars...which is why I now keep any time browsing my Facebook newsfeed to an absolute minimum (usually, I'm more likely to selectively click on a friend's profile, if I happen to be wondering what happens to be going on in their lives at the moment).

How about public figures who choose to respond to a public criticism we have of them (even when, by virtue of their statue and celebrity privilege, they arguably have far more power than most of us could ever hope to have)? If a celebrity tries to gaslight an "ordinary person" in a public forum, is that really a fair fight?