Thank you for writing this response coyotelove !!! I am really glad you shared your experience of SSM here. This article is blatantly wrong and extremely misguided.

Well said, SuperHottieHannah. I, for one, have been stalked and harassed by ex member Katie Arnold as has my boyfriend — NOT cool and NOT hot. If she really wanted to leave SSM she would have left and not spent so much time and energy trying to take it down with a 3rd rate gossip website. Only Jezebel.com would pick…

Love reading this, sheposts!! Feels so brave the way you’re sharing your experience and I feel super connected to you - especially the piece about “I have never met a person that said, “I looked for something because I don’t have anything I want to work on in my life.”” I was definitely a seeker too - trying EVER and…

Love hearing your experience, Anika! Feels so powerful and really honest!

It sure is not!

Anika, I loved reading your email! I think you said everything amazingly.

funny ... but sorry to break it to you, superstar machine isn’t a cult.

Sure Princess Anna can join, but no carrots in the butt; only in her computer to shut it down so she can’t type anymore!

I couldn’t agree more that International supports authentic expression. It’s amazing hearing your perspective and how you’re supported to be you! That is my experience too. Being supported to be me!

Except that you totally shamed and blamed and (attempted) to destroy an innocent and peaceful man on a humongous worldwide platform; opened me personally up to vile criticism as well; and hurt a lot of people who really care about this work. (MEN AND women.)

“Get out while we can” that’s hilarious. Like a bad horror movie script. Sounds like Katie was stalking current SSM members. She seems to have ill motives with all this.

For what it’s worth, doesn’t seem like you have really walked the fuck away. Reminds me of this friend of mine who couldn’t stop talking about her “horrible” ex-boyfriend. After awhile, it was more than I could bear. She wasn’t even with the guy anymore, let it go. Needless to say, we aren’t friends anymore.

Anna—I am really glad that you published Anika’s email to you. It shows me that you are, at this point, willing to see that perhaps you didn’t have all the facts when you went to print with this article.

So awesome! Way to let them know Kale123!!!!

Hell yeah, this was so similar to my experience. Katie Arnold was trying to get people to join her Anti-SSM cult the second she left. And it was weird. Real weird.

In the interest of not arguing over whether or not SSM is a cult or not a cult, I think it’s more important to address the logistics of this scenario as the semantics will just turn into a squabble, really. Like The View and this is Jezebel so let’s not View it up, yo! I’m sorry - that was a stupid joke. Ok so there’s…

This article is so WACK! I’m a proud QUEER member of both Superstar Machine AND IHSR! And I have always...ALWAYS been supported in that.. because that’s who I am authentically. And if there is something that International supports it’s authenic expression! So I can straight up attest that it’s a load of crap that…

My girlfriend is in Superstar Machine. I don’t know much about it because I consider it her business. But this feels way,way off. I’ve met about a dozen of her girlfriends who are fellow members, and all of them seemed perfectly well adjusted and normal- except for Katie Arnold. I had no problem with Katie personally,…

As a current member of Superstar Machine it saddens me to read this and see a woman whom I used to be close with attack something that she knows means a lot to all the women still here. When Katie A left she only contacted me to suggest I leave also. She never shared her experience with me, only sent aggressive…

I am but way taller, hotter and actually sane. About to jump on Oprah’s couch right about nowwwww!