The truth about gossip vigilantes

Let they who have never bitched about a friend over brunch cast the first hash brown.

Original photo by S O C I A L . C U T on Unsplash

We are encouraged, by mental health advocates and video call companies, to talk, keep communication going. But there’s a wrong kind of conversation, the badspeak, the kind of talking that the puritanical village elders of the internet would rather you didn't engage in: a good old-fashioned bitching sessio…