I took it as “my kid is stupid, and I need to pay people off so my social circle won’t find out my kid is stupid.”  I feel bad for the kid in all this.  

Just privlaged, selfish, White Women breaking the law for their own good and escaping any consequences. Usually, by crying that they are the victim. Nothing new here.

And to bring up a leaning disability as if that matters at all with this scandal. She’s rich, get tutors and make your kid study, don’t buy them grades for fucks sake.

Back the fuck up — the guidance counselor suggested “inflating the teen’s math score?” Is that the “expert” to whom she entrusted all decision making regarding her daughter? There’s a lot of folks being thrown under the bus in this story.

“all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot”

“I was absolutely shocked to find out that there was a problem I couldn’t just throw money at!”

Fuck this. Motherhood is bewildering? Yeah, I’ll bet it is, but throwing money at the problem so your little Chad or Becky get to fail their way to the top is bullshit. Especially when other people have faced hardship to earn those spots.

That letter is stupid. She should have just apologized, or said nothing.

As a mother, I agree. I had my kids back before it was considered radical or miraculous, and I did it wearing pantyhose and heels and not being treated seriously. I’m over the brand of feminism that says I have to be on your team because we share a lack of Y chromosomes. Women can be assholes, too. A shining example…

The issues I have with Mia is she is a hypocrite. Over the years she has displayed an amazing lack of compassion for Soon Yee, while at the same time signing petitions for Roman Polanski to be allowed back into the US until people caught on and she back off her support for him..

If we were going by the typical police interview techniques of the time, the McMartin era. I have little doubt that Allen would have been found to be an abuser, but this evaluation was from the team from the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic at Yale. And NY child protection services might have done an evaluation as well, but…

I dont say Frank was fine or Andre. Frank was not all that different from Woody in his ending up with Mia . Andre Previn is a dick for many reasons but especially because he totally broke off his relationship with SoonYee. Her parents felt she was taken advantage of but eventually abandoned her her to alleged abuser.…

There were not huge groups of people grilling the child, but there were various clinicians that either met or observed on a particular day. This team was dedicated to identifying cases of abuse so the legal system could get recommendations for charges and appropriate followup.They are used to dealing with abusers…

Dylans report from Yale has been available for some time. I have worked with people that were abused and have some ambivalence about posting this except that the Farrows and even the Ct state prosecutor claims that they would have prosecuted him but they wanted to save Dylan from dealing with court, but the report belo…

Grrrr. I hate this so much. I also hate to admit that I go to the Daily Mail....daily. They suck, but I go there to see what they say. Anyway, for the obligatory royal ‘back to school’ bullshit they made a point of saying how ‘thrifty’ Kate was because she wore a dress she had worn before. Meanwhile every other story…

They still had an indigenous population to colonize and hate and feel superior to.

What gets me is that there is a Royal who has convorted with an actual pedophile and may have done so himself, but yes, let’s have two embittered women snipe about Meghan “I glow with happiness’ Markle.

She didn’t “know her place” and even though I shouldn't be, I'm genuinely shocked at how nasty some white people are when we dare to enter their hallowed spaces.

True but Roger Ailes was the rotted brain behind the Death Star that is Fox News. Murdoch funded and profited from his style but Roger is the one who thought up selling unhinged racist narratives and packaging it as news.

You do know Rupert Murdoch is Australian, right? (I’m assuming you’re American, and that you mean Fox News exported its madness Down Undah and not the other way around.)