I understand where you're coming from, but I should have mentioned above that this has over 500 million reads on the site it's posted on, and is extremely popular, and the books out there that touch on personal levels aren't as well known, and don't attract many teenage girls. And what you mean by the author being rude, she chooses to ignore what people have to say about her work, even if it's constructive criticism that is trying to help her improve, and taking that type of criticism from people makes you a good writer. You should always listen to what the public has to say about your works, but she obviously doesn't care about being a good writer then, and her books won't sell. She also attacks people on social networks as well.
The people who are against this being published aren't jealous, they're against it because it promotes abuse/rape culture, which is repeatedly glorified throughout the series.
(Sorry in advance. I didn't realize this would be so long when I started typing it.)
Coming from someone with a big background in psychology and overall analysis of people and the things they say and do in general (including the fact that it's my major), from what I've seen, most comments scream jealousy and overall discontentment with the author. I'm not saying
every single person who agrees with these petitions is jealous, but that the creators of them are certainly giving off both of those vibes.
I'm assuming that this thread is more about this particular book than your actual question (you might want to change that, by the way). There are popular books, movies, and shows that attract teenage girls and often cover "touchy subjects". Degrassi is definitely a well known example of a show that tends to show the experiences that today's teenagers are actually going through. They've done everything from rape, to suicide, school shootings, teenage pregnancy, abusive relationships, etc... Now Degrassi definitely doesn't glorify any of these things (at least in my opinion), but it does touch on them. But then again, "glorify" is a pretty subjective word. Just because a group of people feel that something's being glorified doesn't exactly mean it actually is. (The fact is, someone could claim that Degrassi glorifies some of the topics it covers. Because it's such a subjective word, anyone can claim anything with it. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's true. It's all opinion.)
What's likely the case here is this: the author chose to write about some touchy subjects. Though writing itself is an art, being able to convey certain topics in a way that isn't offensive is in essence an art form itself. It's a very difficult thing to do, which is why only recently people have begun to write about real life experiences of things like rape. In the past, they've been considered "taboo" to touch on because of the fact that they might offend people.
And what's likely happened is that the author is an amateur to writing and just isn't used to or hasn't learned to cover those topics in a way that doesn't make it offensive to certain readers. Honestly, it's incredibly brave of someone to write about topics such as these. (The same goes for people who create movies about them.) They need to be talked about instead of them being swept under the rug like they have been in the past. And when they are talked about, the realities and brutalities of these experiences need to be brought up as well. When emotional (and physical and sexual) abuse come into play into a relationship, people often stay in these types relationships for all different types of reasons. I'd say fear of harm and fear of the fact that they can't do any better would be some of the biggest reasons women are often stuck in these relationships. I also read something about her cheating on a great guy and ending up with this guy that abuses her. Well yeah, that happens in real life too. People make decisions... dumb ones, at that. And sometimes the decision is so dumb and so terrible that the person doesn't even realize they've made a mistake. Or they realize they've made a mistake and either can't do anything to correct it (possibly because of the aforementioned fears of people in domestic abuse relationships) or because they just don't know what to do and either
can't or won't seek out help for their problem.
In your other thread, there was a link where people were criticizing some of the main character's actions. Now I haven't read this fanfiction, because first off, I'm not even into them. But from what I've heard, if anything, the character was acting extremely realistic, and that's what people are having a problem with. The author is bursting the myths that people allowed for all these decades about topics like this. And when someone does something like that, there's bound to be a lot of drama because of it. There are also other books, movies, and shows that people feel glorifies something. In the case that someone feels that way, it's best they just stay away from it. That's the adult thing to do. If you don't like it fine, but you don't drag other people down with you.
Honestly, I don't see how the petition you linked doesn't scream jealousy and discontentment. First off, no one has the right to try to guilt trip anyone (authors included) into thinking that their work triggered something. If you were triggered by a book, let's be honest here - you weren't mentally and emotionally stable in the first place. And in that case, who is to blame? The person that read the work. From what I've read here and there, not only does the fanfiction have a warning that it contains and is about certain topics, but to some people, it seems to have progressively gotten worse with those topics? In that case, who in their right mind would continue reading on if they were upset by something? (I swear half of these people didn't even find out about the fanfiction until it was announced that it was going to be published...)
And then another thing is this - if they were truly all about making people aware of the possible "triggers" this book has, why are they pushing for it not to be published? That's what proves there's jealously and discontentment involved there. If someone were truly concerned with triggers, this is what they would do:
A) First acknowledge the fact that the only person who can be held accountable for a trigger is
the person who is being triggered. This is especially true if a warning has been placed.
B) They would also be asking that somehow it be made that younger people have a harder time accessing this fanfiction. (I have no idea how that would be done, but if they really cared about this, they would find a way. Anyone who feels super strongly about something will find a way to fix it without hurting both parties that are involved.)
C) They wouldn't be asking for it not to be published. (Like I said before, this is what ultimately proves that a lot of these people are just mad at or jealous of the author.) Instead, they would ask for more trigger warnings to be placed so that a person who might read it is well aware of what it contains. They would also be lobbying that the author make it known that she is not trying to glorify anything instead of accusing her of doing so, when they have no idea of her true intentions.
D) It's as almost if these people think that the fanfiction being published is going to give it too much attention, when in reality, they're drawing much more attention to it than just publishing it would do. They keep spreading around the name and link of the fanfiction, causing more and more people to read it. It doesn't even make sense. If you really were worried about something like this, one of your main priorities would be making sure more and more people (especially young girls, seeing as that's who these people are lobbying for) don't get access to the so called "trigger". You would handle the matter privately either with the author, the publisher (who is the person you should really go to with any complaints anyway), and any sites that it's posted on simply because you:
A) Shouldn't want to handle a matter publicly in the first place. It's completely unnecessary and immature to do so.
B) Don't want these young girls getting access to something you find so offensive.