The book the slave next door, while certainly has its flaws, does a good job of explaining why modern day slavery particularly with domestics workers is so common in the US

I wish I knew. If I had to take a guess, I’d say they’re terrible human beings who enjoy having power and control over another person and in cases like this it’s essentially like having a slave, which I imagine they enjoy. I think they look down on “the help” and want to hurt and humiliate a person of lower…

i’m sorry but i cannot understand why they chose to NOT set this movie in fucking england. they even got Emily Blunt! WHY. why do this to me. the drinking culture in the UK combined with the adorable little pre-mixed g&t’s really made the story for me. It was somehow more believable when i thought it was set in…

This also reminded me of an interesting story. Many of the rich families that I knew and the one I worked with were very high up business executives. I’m a Psychology graduate student, and our department had a visiting scholar that does research on Psychopathy. We were talking about his research at dinner and I asked…

I wonder if there’s something going on here that might be associated with what happened during the Stanford Prison Experiment. Perhaps, for a tiny portion of employers, suddenly being in almost total control over a person allows them to go down a slope of abuse.

Annnnnnnd I just noticed someone else found one and posted it. Well that was a waste of time (though to be fair, not more of a waste than all this nonsense I’ve been commenting on since last night).

Here, I made one for you =)

It’s easy to enslave someone when they don’t know the language if where they are at and have no money, contacts, etc. They practically do not exist and so you can easily do whatever you want.

Not a study, but a resource: http://polarisproject.org/human-traffick…

Their employers see them as lesser beings. Though it’s not necessarily a rich person thing... Like look how tons of people treat servers/retail workers like shit. Add in extra power over the person and poof—nightmare.

I’ve thought about that a lot because of my bad experience as an au pair, and I think that it’s partly because they think that you should feel super grateful to be able to “ride the coat tails of the rich” and secondly, they really think that they are better than you, because they are so rich, and you aren't. Having a…

We have hosted 3 au pairs, and I’ve witnessed countless families who have abused the system. There are rules in place that limit work hours and ensure certain amounts of time off, among other things. But at the end of the day these are young women, living in a foreign country, living in their workplace. If they dare…

I feel like stories about employers abusing their nannies, maids, etc. are very common. Why is that? I’d love to read more about it if anyone knows any studies done on the topic.

A bag hidden under the nanny’s mattress contained a large amount of her hair, which Huang allegedly ripped from the woman’s head. The nanny had been hiding it so Huang wouldn’t find it “and force her to eat it,” the complaint said.

Kim is defending a loved one from character assassination. If it was just a feud about him and a colleague, it would be one thing. But Taylor has lied about him consistently to the public. That is obviously another matter entirely.

I am an admitted Taylor Swift fan, who tends to roll her eyes at Kanye and Kim, but man, even I think this is hilarious. Good on you, Kim. I’ve been laughing all night, and after this week, I needed that. Anyone got popcorn?

Becky with the long angel hair?

“Low key you won’t tell none of your friends about me.”

I’m Perd Hapley, and the thing you are about to read, is an article.

I’ve read interviews with publicists before where they’ve said that many stars are complicit with the paparazzi, and that it’s a game they HAVE to play to keep getting projects. But if that’s the case, how do people like Steve Carell or Julianne Moore (both of whom I love) keep getting hired for high-profile movies? I…