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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why was the thread in the entertainment forum locked? I wanted to discuss it from that perspective - who’s in the group etc. [/quote]

I think it's just locked because a longer thread (this one) had already been started.

You can discuss the alleged members here! 
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Yeah, I think it's fine to discuss the group members here. I know Mandy Moore and Hillary Duff were part of it. Someone upthread said that Minka Kelly had been part of the friend group but got iced out when the others started having kids and she didn't, which kind of tells you the vibe of the group, IMO. I cannot imagine dropping a friend because I had a kid and she didn't -- two of my dearest friends are single and child free and I love hanging out with them. I love my mom friends too but it's actually a relief to have friends who lives don't revolve around kids because I don't actually love for every conversation to be about schools, screen time, development issues, etc. It's nice to hang out with a friend and the conversation is mostly about work, travel, books, TV, celeb gossip (like this!), and then maybe a few minutes check in on my kids but that's it.

It sounds like the group had a lot of "regulating" by certain members, deciding who was in or out, who was a core member or not. That is in fact toxic behavior. A healthy friend group will be a lot looser than that and just let things evolve naturally. There are always sub groups but there really do not need to be hierarchies unless the people are controlling and power hungry, which sounds like it might be the case here.[/quote]

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