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[quote=Anonymous]Look, I don't really think the parents here are victims and I don't have much sympathy for them being the target of one of Flanagan's typical hit pieces. But I really dislike Flanagan's modus operandi, because her making a buck by peddling stereotypes hurts people who can't fight back. I blame her for some of the nastiness in the mommy wars: it was her widely publicized slams of both SAHM and WOHM several years ago that fed the mommy wars back then. She may have been targeting herself and her peers, but the moms who bear the brunt of the nastiness she throws into the universe are the struggling SAHMs or WOHMs who are for the most part not rich and just trying to get through the day. The stereotypes she fed and nurtured hurt the WOHM who needs to feed her kid, or the SAHM who is trying to hold it together with a deployed husband. It didn't hurt Flanagan's supposed targets, but she made a lot of money by being, at heart, deeply unkind.

Here, the rich trust fund parents will be fine. But the ones who struggle to get their kids a good education -- including at schools not nearly elite as Sidwell -- will get painted by the same brush.

In the end it's stupid and there's no real harm compared to the bad things in the world, and of course Flanagan will be laughing all the way to the bank, but I think it's sad she makes her living that way.[/quote]

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