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Posts: 12248 (01/02/08 10:12 PM) Registered User |
Damn, this one made me ill. That 14 year old looks terrible & seems clinically depressed. I'd almost put money on her attempting suicide in the near
future. Not only was it wrong to make those girls take care of the house & boys but it was wrong to expect them to school themselves. No kid needs that
responsibility.
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Posts: 617 (01/02/08 10:17 PM) |
I couldn't finish the episode it was so sickening.
Was I the only one who noticed that the girls looked exactly the same in their interviews. I feel so bad for them. |
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Posts: 1556 (01/02/08 10:19 PM) Registered User |
Here's Child Protective Services for their area....
Just sayin'. If you live in Wisconsin and you're truly sickened by it. Also interesting to note that the net chatter has been very, very intense around this. I think it struck a chord among the 10 million or so who watched.
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Posts: 8043 (01/02/08 10:40 PM) Registered User |
I feel really bad for those girls. They're both going to marry the first guy they can find just to get the fuck out of that house. No 17 year old should
have bags like that under her eyes.
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supamb |
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Posts: 547 (01/02/08 10:41 PM) Registered user |
They're out for blood on the abc message board. They've posted the wife's myspace page and business website address.
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leeter |
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Posts: 1558 (01/02/08 10:53 PM) Registered User |
For every post at the ABC board, there are at least 100 lurkers (based on past studies of web analytics and social communities). might be higher.
The number of first time posters is also very high, which is an indication of the influx. It might end up becoming the textbook case of 'net mob mentality. That said...parents should have thought about that before mortgaging their daughters futures. Sure -- worse is happening in Kenya and emergency rooms around the country tonight. The fact remains...you have two very sympathetic girls, in a situation that offends the senses of most sensible middle class Americans (maybe not so much the underclass), but certainly offends middle class Americans...and you get this sort of very, very negative reaction. I think that culturally, it hit a raw nerve. There are hundreds of posters and lurkers here who might disagree with the underlining offensiveness of the treatment, but you can't deny the phenom. Whether or not this whole thing degenerates into a plea from the parents is another thing entirely. That would cause a secondary wave of publicity and lead to even more attention over and beyond the 10 million who are aware, and the 10,000 (or so) who are going batshit crazy. |
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Angela in WI |
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Posts: 18031 (01/02/08 11:03 PM) Registered User |
I am spitting mad! GRrrrrrr... I want to strangle those fucking parents. Lazy motherfuckers.
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Posts: 871 (01/02/08 11:38 PM) Registered User |
supamb wrote: Also interesting to note that the net chatter has been very, very intense around this. I think it struck a chord among the 10 million or so who watched. I'm not surprised. I was horrified that the parents just dumped all the child rearing and house work on those two teens, then have the nerve to
complain about their grades. Why couldn't the teens go to public school? They need to be with others their own age. I hope that now that the cameras and
microphones are gone that the girls aren't back to indentured servitude. I bet they are getting a close look at by plenty of folks now so that should help.
The 17 year old could go out now and declare herself an emancipated minor if she could get a job and room mate and the 14 year old could follow soon after. I
just don't trust that mom and dad are going to let go of that free child care so easy.
I really got double mad when mom waltzed in late with crappy cold burgers and it didn't look like there was any sides to go with those nasty things
(though we did see a gallon jug of some blue fluid). Slap the nasty cold burgers on the table and then let the girls continue caring for the tots while she
goes and hides in the other room. Oh, my child is having a meltdown, Brianna (or whatever the girl's name is) can take care of it, it's too much for
me to deal with so let the teen have to handle it. I guess it's incentive for the girls not to have a teen pregnancy.
Wasn't surprise older daughter passed out when dad was doing the eye-rolling calling her out about the damn clothes folding. She's not your slave,
buddy, if she does her own laundry then that should suffice and you can get off your fertile butt and fold your own damn skivvies. I've no problem with
kids pitching in but for the parents to totally abdicate their responsibilities like that is appalling.
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leeter |
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Posts: 1566 (01/02/08 11:59 PM) Registered User |
Dottstar,
Last post before I go to sleep. :) I agree with you on the basis that there was a sense of the proportionality being totally out of whack. A few things I found disturbing, which, I don't think were a result of a strong negative edit: 1. Kids who are homeschooled without supervision are not really being schooled at all. It's clear that their grades were failing, and in part, this was due to obligatory housesitting. 2. The abdication of all responsibility. Regardless if she was 'folding the clothes or not', the quote "this is not a license for them to walk all over us" and "I give up" were not 'edited' into that mother's mouth. She said them. 3. The eldest was clearly afraid to speak up. What the fuck was up with the "let's call a truce" line? And that seemed to only happen once Jo came in close. For me, it's the proportionality of the "home schooling". the purposeful mortgaging of their daughters future just so that the wife can pull in "45-60 grand a year". It's virtually criminal negligence, and one of the worst examples I've seen on network television. The fainting was meh...but those girls definitely appeared dead inside. The lack of energy was clear. WTF was with the mother shoving a screaming kid into a room with a sleeping daughter? There was just this level of disrespect and contempt that the parents had for their daughters that was, well, offensive. THIS in fact may have been as a result of a negative edit, yet, I will point out, that those events certainly did happen over the course of 5 days. Jo's reactions to what she was seeing also heightened the emotion and served to reaffirm our initial biases. The sequence usually went "allegation of an outrage", "demonstration of outrage", "Jo's reaction to outrage"....then, "next allegation of an outrage"....and when the cycle is repeated 5 to 8 times per segment...it has this effect. But the basic facts, in particular about the homeschooling, makes me confident that I wasn't completely manipulated. There's something, at the core, that's intensely offensive to middle class values here. Maybe not bottom quintile values or people who are over 65 for whom this may have been the norm, but certainly to modern middle class American values. |
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Posts: 462 (01/03/08 12:10 AM) |
What the hell happened on the show tonight? I wanted to watch, but Jeremy Sisto was calling me to Law and Order and I must obey.......
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dottstar |
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Posts: 873 (01/03/08 12:31 AM) Registered User |
Leeter, I totally agreed with all you had to say. No matter the editing that went on, the parts shown was bad did occur and are against any type of class
values in this day and age. These girls were not being forced to help out due to circumstances out of anyone's control. They were being used as unpaid
labor so mom could fulfill her dream of her own business and avoid the drudgery and hassle of taking care of her three youngest. The dad was just as selfish
for allowing it to happen when there are other solutions.
I just felt really bad for the girls and if the show is raising an uproar then there is hope the situation won't return to how it was. I'm shocked that the parents didn't have the common sense to realize how bad they looked and allowed cameras in their house and the show to be televised. Do these families get any money for appearing on Supper Nanny? I wonder how large the paycheck is that would allow parents to show the world how they decided to just dump their responsibilities on the older girls. And, egads, I too must hit the hay. I didn't realize how upset these two shows had made me. |
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Posts: 527 (01/03/08 5:27 AM) Registered user |
Hey Y'all!
Ifen them folks didn't spend their money on a new camper maybe Mama could have got her rotten choppers fixed! Seriously, they buy a new camper so they can have vacations to spend in the woods which is what they live in anyway! And that poor Mimi grandma! She's about to keel over! And as for the second episode, those selfish lying parents should have all those kids taken away. The three little ones aren't getting what they need and the girls are going to end up being whores just to get some male attention, that's if they live that long. Disgusting episode. Jojo packed on a few pounds, by the way. |
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Posts: 287 (01/03/08 8:20 AM) Registered user |
that was one of the saddest shows ever. they should have stopped taping and called the authorities. those girls are slaves.
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Posts: 3148 (01/03/08 10:08 AM) |
I watched this abuse last night. My children do chores, but damn, enough is enough! This just made me sick.
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Posts: 164 (01/03/08 10:13 AM) Registered User |
Some one needs to pull the homeschool laws for where ever they are. I'm sure they are not going by them! That looked like abuse to me last night. I
finally had to cut if off because it was just sad.
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Stefanie71 |
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Posts: 165 (01/03/08 10:15 AM) Registered User |
My 6 year old said those twin boys would "act right if someone spanked them like they should." LOL If those kids don't kill Mimi - her smoking
will. Damn drawn smoker's face if I ever seen one.
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relativiti |
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Posts: 8 (01/03/08 10:19 AM) |
I only 1/2 watched this. Did they actually use the camper in the backyard, or was it moved to another spot which looked just like the back yard? And you know all Mimi wanted to really teach the kids was how to "Go get my Newports." |
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Posts: 7993 (01/03/08 10:23 AM) Registered user |
I have to wonder if those girls are even eating properly. The oldest looked unhealthily thin, and her hair needed a good washing. I think she's clinically
depressed, and who could blame her, living in that household. The show really made me cry last night.
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Angela in WI |
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Posts: 18043 (01/03/08 10:24 AM) Registered User |
That mom was a selfish cunt and the father was an emotionally crippled asshole.
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Posts: 930 (01/03/08 10:36 AM) Registered user |
Poor Mimi looked like she was going to have a heart attack everytime those twins did something. My husband told me that I should go show Jo how to count to 3
since our boys respond to that. I think I have only gotten to 3 once with each boy, lol.
Those poor girls. I noticed the fainting daughter looked the same one the after interviews as she did while the show was being filmed. I doubt anything changed. Someone needs to bitchslap those parents for treating their kids so bad. The girls look awful for someone that age. Online Charter School?? WTF! That isn't homeschooling...gawd. |
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