Anonymous
Post 08/02/2024 07:28     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:That said, I wouldn't have called and demanded a gift card.


At least 6 times by her own admission 🙄
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2024 06:47     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
This reminds me of the horror stories about mental illness when someone writes maniacally and then thinks they wrote a masterpiece but it’s all gobledygook

Why does she harbor quite so much “anger and embarrassment” in regards to Sidwell for so many decades? That doesn’t sound normal or healthy.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2024 03:41     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I bought the book. I thought it would be a fun summer read like Prep, which I read many years ago, but it's pretty tedious and all of the characters, including the protagonist, Aki, are awful. I'll probably leave it in a little free library.


I'm a pretty "woke" person, but it's a book about the stereotypes of the worst types of people, being confronted by the stereotype of the most self-righteous kind of people, all in a setting that has virtually no relevance to anyplace any of us have ever experienced. Real beach read.


+1
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2024 03:40     Subject: Re:Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:My wife got an advanced publisher’s copy and this was on the first page. “Much of this story is true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. And to keep the guilty guessing.


Munchausen? It also applies to feigning or inducing a psychological trauma to draw sympathy, attention or reassurance. There’s a there there but a true story it’s not. The there there is probably some very personal event or condition the author experienced/has.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2024 03:29     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
I wonder how many of these posts are in jest and how many written by her to manufacture some more outrage to Karen about
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2024 03:27     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Real Housewives of Academia rating:

“She is only nice to her favorite students, who are usually the ones with the same opinions as her”

You don’t say.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:31     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
What a Trip!
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:30     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:She took down the Medium post. She’s definitely on this thread.

Hey prof, sorry your book is getting trashed. You literally asked for it though. If it prompts some self reflection, it’ll all be worth it. Growth is what life is really about.


Seriously? She’s going to let one of her ill-considered thoughts go offline:

“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”
— Martha, age 55
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:23     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is Payet a nickname for Maret? How does that translate? As a grad of a local fancy private school but not Maret I genuinely can not figure it out.


It also seems like a derogatory way of referencing the school her kids go to "Pay it"?


I thought it was “equally exclusive”? Ew. She’ll never live this whole flop and fiasco down
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:18     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone read this book? It's HORRIBLE. Just so poorly written.


Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:16     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:She took down the Medium post. She’s definitely on this thread.

Hey prof, sorry your book is getting trashed. You literally asked for it though. If it prompts some self reflection, it’ll all be worth it. Growth is what life is really about.


Oh, Martha!
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:13     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:She took down the Medium post. She’s definitely on this thread.

Hey prof, sorry your book is getting trashed. You literally asked for it though. If it prompts some self reflection, it’ll all be worth it. Growth is what life is really about.


Did she? 😂
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 18:13     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”


Funny, she (presumably) reported her own medium piece about a Lululemon racist incident that wasn’t

We read it for fun (Asian family) and no one thought a frazzled salesperson repeating distancing rules sounded racist. There’s racism for sure and some behaved inexcusably during Covid but this ain’t it

Yet somehow the “professorial lecturer and writer” as it’s signed by her, worked her old school into it. Mind boggles.



To be fair, the incident in Lululemon did in fact sound racist and I have plenty of Chinese-American friends who had similar incidents occur throughout the country, even in California with a high Asian population.


To be fair what about it sounded racist to you other than Lululemon? And why did she go to Lululemon since it’s racist? And how did Sidwell get dragged into this too?!

What a weirdo
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 17:57     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
She took down the Medium post. She’s definitely on this thread.

Hey prof, sorry your book is getting trashed. You literally asked for it though. If it prompts some self reflection, it’ll all be worth it. Growth is what life is really about.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2024 17:39     Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
That said, I wouldn't have called and demanded a gift card.