I just had the displeasure to read a disgusting editorial about one “brave” woman’s struggle to deal with her son’s “mental illness” by drugging him, putting him in therapy, committing him to mental institutions, and contemplating having him arrested.
On top of all that, she equates the violent outbursts of her son (a 13-year-old) with the actions of Adam Lanza this past week.
In fact, this psychotic narcissist titled her editorial, “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother.”
I’m sure her son will feel very empowered when he realizes his mother wrote this article about him, saying he is the same as someone who killed 26 people including many children, and had it re-published all over the internet (including Huffington Post).
She never discusses trying to get her son involved with sports, or any type of healthy male competition. She lists his positive attributes as “High IQ… love of Harry Potter… snuggle animal collection.”
And not once does she refer to the boy’s father, or any male role model in his life.
At the end, there is an “About the Author” section:
Liza Long is an author, musician, and erstwhile classicist. She is also a single mother of four bright, loved children, one of whom has special needs.
I would say that all four of them have special needs.
They need a father.
If we continue leaving boys in the hands of well-meaning but incompetent women to raise them alone, oblivious to their natures and needs, we will continue the rapid decline of our civilization into an unstable storm of violence. When a boy is oppressed from embodying the full realization of his gender, he will rebel on the most basic, animalistic level.
Heh, I read this earlier today and came to much the same conclusion, although, I also went through some of her other posts on her blog – just to see if my suspicions were correct…
The first post she makes on her blog was around 4 years ago… guess what it is about? Yup. Her divorce! And… when did she start having trouble with this kid? Really? Does someone need to put it together for this dimbulb of a broad? Apparently!
She had the McMansion, she had the high-earning Alpha husband, she had the Steinway Piano (at a cost of $45,000 to $100,000), and her marriage made her think of death and federal prison… so she ixnay’d the works and absconded with the kids. She complained that “he got the house and 50% custody and she got the Steinway.” (She’s extremely proud of her Steinway, and mentions it all over the damn place – in case you don’t know, a Steinway is a highly valued piano. Referring to it as “The Steinway” is like referring to your car as “the Porsche.” It simply reeks of materialistic arrogance.)
She named the year 2012 as “The Year of the War on Women.”
Why?
Because apparently, her husband took her to court this year over Parental Alienation Syndrome and during the court case, her mental fitness was also questioned. Btw, it is interesting to note that from her first post about her divorce, she claimed it was because all she thought about was death (hello, depression!), but by 2012, she is claiming that her husband left her for another woman, who he married six months later.
Also, this year, she lost her teaching job because of sexual harassment! Yes, she got fired from her teaching job (Art History) because a man (from another department) leveled a sexual harassment complaint against her. Now, normally, I feel sympathy for people accused of sexual harassment… but, really now, we all know how universities are anti-male bastions of feminism. In other words, for this woman to actually have lost her job for sexually harassing a man from another department… well, why are my spidey-senses tingling that something about her is not “right”?
Furthermore, she has done great damage to this child by posting this about him online. She might have changed his name, but who cares? In her post before this one, she blatantly names her father’s full name, his military rank and title, and the base where he lived and she grew up. She posted her son’s picture on there, for god’s sakes! Is it really soooooo hard to figure out these people’s names from here? And I have only read 4 or 5 of her posts. Good for her, labeling her son publicly as a psycho axe-murderer. No wonder he is pissed.
The sickening thing is all the fools showing up to comment about what a brave, single mother she is – validating her irrational behaviour for her. Keep in mind, this is the first child of hers that has reached puberty. She has no experience. Hell, even as wide of a hole as ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder leaves for their analysis, they still can’t diagnosis this kid, as she says. Good for her then, to label him as a mass-murderer.
If I was this kid, I would apply for legal emancipation the instant I turned fifteen years old.
This reminds me of that ditch-pig feminist slag Trash Wilson of a few years back, who caught her 13 or 14 year old son viewing porn on the internet, and rather than dealing with the normal curiosity young boys have about sex, she started blogging about how much regretted having a male-child who had “rape tendencies.”
Great comment! Thanks for all this extra information.
That is a great comment, succinct and pithy.
Barbara Kay talked about the over 4 million single dads in North America, and how there is NO EVIDENCE that being raised by a single dad produces the dystopian social bullshit that routinely happens when kids are raised by single moms.
Single moms are a social cancer.
Here’s the Barbara Kay video:
I am a teacher. I’ve taught upwards of 500 children in my career. DIVORCE HURTS KIDS. It hurts them mentally, socially, and emotionally. It takes the one thing that gives them a sense of safety, stability, and identity in the world – a stable and loving family – and rips it out from under them. It’s from watching the deleterious effects of parental divorce on students that I completely disagree with no-fault divorce – or any divorce at all, for that matter – except in the most extreme cases of abuse or cruelty (when the psychic harm caused to the children by divorce would be less than the harm caused by staying in the situation.) Point is, when you have kids, you’ve implicitly signed on to arrange your life around what’s best for them. If you want “me time” or the freedom to indulge your own selfish whims, get a damn cat.
She’s effectively pathologizing her son, agreeing with whatever the pill-pushing pimp psychiatrists tell her (I have another teaching experience-related rant about our society’s push to get kids whose brains aren’t even half-developed – especially boys – on adult psychotropic medications and give them adult psychiatric labels, but we’ll save that.) She’s compared him to adult mass murderers. She’s looked at her child’s emotional pain writ large and decided, “Nope, none of this could have anything to do with me or his dad. Must be his brain that’s broken.” The fact that she hasn’t even considered the possibility that his acting-out could be related to losing his dad, and the fact that she’d publicize his adolescent struggles (with such a repugnant title to boot), does a lot to explain why her child might be so angry.
“The sickening thing is all the fools showing up to comment about what a brave, single mother she is – validating her irrational behaviour for her. ”
I hope you leave a version of your excellent comment over there for counterbalance
Rob, do you remember the link to that article in the last paragraph of your post? I really want to read it, but my Google searches have all come up empty and I’m tired of slogging through the feminist drek I was turning up.
She’s looked at her child’s emotional pain writ large and decided, “Nope, none of this could have anything to do with me or his dad. Must be his brain that’s broken.” The fact that she hasn’t even considered the possibility that his acting-out could be related to losing his dad, and the fact that she’d publicize his adolescent struggles (with such a repugnant title to boot), does a lot to explain why her child might be so angry.
And yet this is the same class of individual who believes in tabula rasa and that experiences form the life. No tendencies are innate or genetic; you didn’t build that, someone else made that happen.
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