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It's relative, you can be low status in one group and high status in another and be the exact same person.

Sounds like from the online bullying she suffered from at Yale, she was low status there.

I’d like to understand the thinking of those who downvoted and flagged this comment.

It was "[dead]" or "[flagged]" ? If it was the first it was automatic and probably caused by previous comments, not by this one. New accounts (green name) can be auto-flagged quite fast if they have downvotes or reports on multiple comments.

At this point, I remember it as flagged. I'm reasonably confident that my memory is correct.

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