Why pronounce her Unhinged. She is in crisis. Labelling her a freak is not going to help her out. A little compassion might be useful now.

People posting their emotional breakdowns for all the world to see, along with videos of themselves having sex, beating up people, puking, popping zits...the whole enchilada of heretofore private and/or shameful behavior.

Do any of you remember that Simpsons episode where Krusty the Klown's show went off the air, and all the children of Springfield snapped out of their stupors, rose from their couches, and went outdoors and started playing games or running around or chasing butterflies (Martin rolled a wheel down the road with a stick)? Maybe there should be a universal one-year time out from the Internet. Shut it down. Give people permission to decouple themselves from the Borg mass mind.

It might improve our society's mental health. That, or lead to mass suicide.

While I believe your letter is an oversimplification, I did just check out your blog, and dug your post on Spitzer.

She's a playwright? Methinks there's theatre in the air.

It is sad that she felt compelled to create and distribute this emotional diatribe. It is also sad that the national online media has picked up on it, running it on their front pages. This is not news.

This is a woman's meltdown, and she is likely already regretting posting the video (unless it is garnering interest in a future play based on this incident--yes, I am that cynical).

Note: I have not watched the actual video.

What a waste of time. Women may rant, at least this one, but men shoot women and children. And yet poor Sarah Hepola takes on a woman.

Come on, salon.com, keep things in perspective.

That episode was just shown on my local affiliate two days ago and the kids stop watching tv due to violence being removed from the Itchy and Scratchy Show. They get bored with the friendly antics of the cartoon. (Itchy&Scratchy sipping lemonade and dancing etc.)

Huh? What exactly are you getting at? Why, in your opinion, does Broadsheet need to cover only ex-boyfriends and stepfathers who shoot women and kids and not cover this totally narcissistic woman's worldwide mental breakdown? Yeah, she's in pain, I'm sure (note: I have also not seen the video), but that does not excuse her irresponsible behavior, not does it excuse the AP and other "news" outlets from giving her the attention she so desperately and narcissistically cried out for. Same reason they're not supposed to give attention to high-profile suicides - it causes more people to kill themselves.

Which brings me to the woman up the road from me who just drowned herself and her two daughters in a brook. She didn't SHOOT her daughters, though, so I guess that shouldn't come up on Broadsheet either? I am just baffled about what you are trying to say. Most women in prison are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, while most men in prison are diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder. Personally, I think the cultural and gender differences in mental illness are absolutely fascinating. Why not talk about all of them instead of just focusing on the small fraction of men who shoot people?

Yikes... I read about that woman and her two kids, awful. How terrible for the policeman who tried to save them.

I agree with what I believe to be your point, that men and women are equally capable of behaving badly, but they tend to pick different ways to do it. Constant Reader, may I point out that far more children are murdered by women than men?

Anyway, having hysterics about a failed marriage is a very minor sin. People of both sexes and all creeds have been doing it for about three decades now, ever since "We parted due to irreconcilable differences," stopped being taken as "So MYOB, you leeches," and started being taken as "Buy me a drink and I'll dish." The difference is that everybody's behavior, bad and good, has a much wider audience now.

I did not watch the video yesterday when I saw an article about it on AP News, and I don't plan to watch it now. She made her choice to air her dirty laundry in public; I make my choice not to care about her dirty laundry.

sure it makes her look bad and presumably would in a general sense "cost" her, but without knowing specifics you can't say for sure that it is worse for her than for him, and it is theoretically possible that this is a rational attempt to get "justice", I admit this looks unlikely.

who give the rest of us a bad name. Men increasingly think that all women are crazy, pill popping, boozing suicidal/homocidal cunning golddiggers when in fact most of us are nice gals who are looking for a nice guy.

And let's make it clear once and for all: there are crazy women and there are crazy men: the news is - sadly - full of stories about both.

I would just like to add that my money is on "youtube hoax designed to goose career."

Remember LonelyGirl17? Upon first viewing it was obvious to this veteran of PR stuntism that the lonely girl was a rather mediocre ACTRESS, mugging and fretting for the AUDIENCE.

Now twenty seconds into this "unhinged divorced lady" (which was all I could take, to be honest), my PR stunt antennae were flailing around in manic circles.

"Shame on you, Salonobama" for covering silly AOL-type non-events like this.

P.S. I don't think that lonely girl's career went anywhere after her 15 minutes of late-night show appearances, and I predict the same for unhinged lady.

Looks like she may have been influenced by Faye Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil in which a spurned wife seeks revenge.

She is definitely angry, no doubt about that, but of course we don't know the other side of the story. Could her husband post a YouTube response? I guess not.

"C'mon now hun, you know you get emotional at that time of the month... It's gonna be alright. Come to daddy."

What I see is that this is a woman who perceives herself as powerless in dealing with a man who has not played fair with her, and she is determined to embarrass HIM to the utmost.

Haven't all of us wanted to do this to someone at some time, only to have common sense and self preservation get the better of us?

I guess she is past caring.

Of course, it COULD all be a scam, and this being America, she is probably already receiving offers for the movie rights, T-shirt marketing, cell phone ring tones, and so on.