A senior adviser for Planned Parenthood was scorched on Twitter Thursday for sending a mean tweet to a high school girl who asked Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv to prom.
The high school girl tweeted out a conversation she had with Kashuv, where the Marjory Stoneman Douglas student and pro-Second Amendment activist said he would go to prom with her if she got 5,000 retweets.
PLEASE HELP ME OUT. A DREAM COME TRUE pic.twitter.com/Rl6VIJFny7
— fidan (@ibrahimovafidan) April 5, 2018
Elizabeth Thorp criticized the girl for asking Kashuv, tweeting, “Hard pass, sweet girl. You can do better.”
Hard pass, sweet girl. You can do better.
— Elizabeth Thorp (@ElizabethEThorp) April 5, 2018
Nearly 600 people replied to Thorp’s comment, calling her out for “bullying” high schoolers. Kashuv even weighed in on the tweet, writing, “Why does @ElizabethEThorp feel bullying a Parkland survivor is okay? More importantly, why is she bullying my date?”
Why does @ElizabethEThorp feel bullying a Parkland survivor is okay? More importantly, why is she bullying my date? pic.twitter.com/BF3hnsMf0m
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 5, 2018
Thorp denied she was bullying the girl and insisted she was just giving her “motherly advice.”
Not bullying, Kyle.
Giving her some motherly advice after she publicly asked for help scoring a prom date. https://t.co/UxlpysOI2R
— Elizabeth Thorp (@ElizabethEThorp) April 5, 2018
Nonetheless, Twitter users weren’t buying her excuse.
Works for Planned Parenthood, talks about “motherly” advice. Something’s not adding up.
— Tate DePriest (@SimplyTater) April 5, 2018
You’re not her mom though…
— Adam Tritt (@ItsAdamTritt) April 5, 2018
Motherly advice? It was the most immature, comment I’ve read on Twitter in days. And this is Twitter.
— Erik Walker (@ejwalker7) April 5, 2018
You’re way too old for this.
— NolanIDN (@NolanIDN) April 5, 2018
Stop acting like a mean girl high schooler. It was beneath anyone
— Theresa (@Terribnice) April 5, 2018