Her family hired me as a maid for 12 years, but then she stole my life and made it a Disney movie

[nutmegdealer]

Millions have read Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel The Help with a mixture of fascination and raw, often tearful, emotion.

Based on the lives of black servants in America’s Southern states of the Sixties, it is a sharply observed portrait of a racially charged, segregationist world that some might say has barely passed.
It has also proved a

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[homasse]

The case has already been dismissed. :(

[dyvinesweetness]

Damn. And a statute of limitations issue, at that. So sad. =(

[pariahcub]

This.

[roseofjuly]

Well, she knew she was going to get away with it.

[nepthys_12]

You know what, there goes any inclination I had to buy a ticket, just to support black actresses. Imma buy two tickets to Colombiana-not to say its not problematic, but at least she's not the fucking help. Kathryn Stockett is a disgusting asshole, who really ought to be ashamed of herself. Of course, doing the decent thing would burst everyone's bubble about the mythos of the nice white lady and the long suffering black women that need her help.

[roseofjuly]

it is a sharply observed portrait of a racially charged, segregationist world that some might say has barely passed.

Sharply observed? Ha ha. First of all, anyone who says the book was about "an unlikely friendship between a white girl and a black maid" wasn't reading very closely. Stockett wasn't THAT crazy. But beyond that, it takes an especially clueless white person to claim that anything about Stockett's feel-good narrative about light mostly-harmless racism in the form of caricatured white women and a Mighty Whitey Female Edition helping a bunch of sexless mammies is "sharply observed." The only good thing about the movie was getting to see Viola Davis and Octavia Butler.

But how ironic is it that a novel about a white woman profiting from black women's stories is, in reality, penned by a white woman who stole a black woman's story to profit?

And to me, the fact that you had to send her a book ahead of time and a note explaining that there's no connection spells fishy. She lying.