This is good. Megan Thee Stallion didn’t just win a legal case — she shifted the atmosphere.According to court watchers, Megan testified about rea
This is good. Megan Thee Stallion didn’t just win a legal case — she shifted the atmosphere.
According to court watchers, Megan testified about reaching a breaking point. The deepfake video was the last straw. She was in the prime of her worldwide success, with every reason to ignore the noise and ride off into the glittering sunset. She could have chosen silence, distance, luxury, and detachment.
But she didn’t.
Because some lessons cannot be ignored. Not when children are dying over digital lies. Not when girls are being humiliated online before they even understand what privacy means. Not when boys are being blackmailed into silence. Not when predators and opportunists hide behind screens, weaponizing technology like it’s harmless.
Unlike many young people that we lose every year, Megan has dealt with grief and loss of close family. She has lost her father, mother, and grandmother. I imagine she has coping skills and perhaps a few genuine people she is unafraid to turn to about her personal disappointments and misplaced shame if people do something this horrible to her.
Unfortunately, her life experiences have called for a different set of coping skills than most young people. Teens are still getting their “sea legs” in life so to speak. And is it fair for life to even require that of them? Children, all of us, should come to expect a certain degree of safety from our fellow human beings. Leaving other people alone shouldn’t be this hard.
Side bar: (While I try to be a STRICT maintainer of confidence around the identities behind the real life stories of abuse and violence that I have heard over the years I share the general lessons. I have talked or chatted online with too many children who contacted an organization I was volunteering/working for because they felt they had “no one” to turn to. Meanwhile, mom/dad/ siblings/ grandparents were right in the home.
Children have to be constantly reminded that they can turn to the safe adults in their lives. It is a matter of life and death.)
Megan stood her ground and essentially said:
“Place the shame where it belongs.
You will not use technology against me this way.”
That is not celebrity gossip — that is a cultural shift.
For too long, young people have carried the shame of what someone else did to them online. They were told to shrug it off, to toughen up, to pretend it didn’t hurt. Meanwhile, the violators laughed, clicked, shared, posted, and walked away with no consequence.
Megan shattered that script. Ripped it up.
She showed the world that:
- Your image is not a toy.
- Your identity is not a joke.
- Your boundaries do not disappear on a screen.
- The person who creates the harm is responsible for the harm.
Her stand tells every young person:
You are not powerless.
You are not crazy.
You are not alone.
If someone deepfakes you, catfishes you, impersonates you, or sexualizes you online without your consent, you are not the problem. The shame belongs to the person who violated your dignity — not to the one who survived it.
Megan Thee Stallion didn’t just defend herself. She carved out a path for others to follow. She made it clear that technology may be new, but accountability is ancient.
Her voice is not just entertainment — it is protection. It is a message to every young heart scrolling in fear:
Your face, your name, your story are worth defending.
And now, thanks to one woman -who happens to maintain the attention of a lot of people- refusing to be someone else’s digital playground, the law is starting to listen.
In case you can’t tell, this issue shatters my heart. Sextortion, catfishing, and deep fake porn intersecting with children is so painful for them. I ache with them. I just want it to stop.
*PS…it also wakes up our legal system a bit…hopefully.