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xoJane Publishes Terrible Article By a Woman Who’s Glad Her Friend Died, Then Deletes Her Byline

On Thursday, xoJane published an essay titled “My Former Friend’s Death Was a Blessing,” which outlines a series of petty grievances with a woman who, the piece reveals, later committed suicide. It’s a strange and deeply insensitive piece; simultaneously judgmental, self-absorbed, and unreflective, particularly since the subject matter is a young woman who suffered from schizoaffective disorder.

The piece, originally published with the byline of writer Amanda Lauren, engages in the voyeurism and spectacle typical of a kind of first-person essay, without any of the obligatory reflection. The only lesson learned from this piece is that xoJane shouldn’t have published it.

Lauren recounts the unraveling of this former friend, a woman, who Lauren acknowledges she hadn’t spoken to in years before she died. There are long, sanctimonious descriptions of the “former friend’s” Facebook page that, put bluntly, are downright vile. Throughout the piece, it’s clear that Lauren is concerned only with herself; there’s no attempt to empathize with a mentally ill woman, no attempt to intervene in her “former friend’s” clear unraveling.

It gets worse too. Apparently, the writer has received massive and constant backlash.