Mary Anne's Make-over! Part 2!

[road_baby]

Welp, girls. This is a bad one. In this snark there will be-Capslock rants, multiple punctuation marks, copious amounts of cursing, a list of assholes, too many italics, some grody pictures, and my descent into madness. But, that's okay! Cuz I love it! I need to get my anger issues out somehow and I'm too lazy to decapitate hookers on GTA so, I

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[darth_firefly]

At last! Someone else who hated Artemis Fowl!

Dawn should be stuck on a desert island with Joeffery Baratheon. There's just no excuse for her behavior here or ever. And you're right, this should have been the book where Mary Anne left the BSC.

I'm going to give Jessi and Mallory a bit of a pass for their treatment, because odds are, they secretly think it's awesome but are too scared shitless by the other girls to say anything. Sort of like how I didn't care the intimidating pharmacist at work why her 'fresh' salsa was getting hotter with each successive day. I couldn't believe she didn't know and I did and I'm the one who flunked chemistry.

[shatisarockgod]

What are Jessi and Mallory doing in this book? It really seems like this shit is coming from the older girls only. Are Jessi and Mal in the background staying quiet out of fear*, laughing every now and again, or rolling their eyes while staying quiet?

*Yeah, this one is my guess. The girls have their place and wouldn't want to do or say anything to risk that place. I know that sounds like a weird thing to say. I just think of the sitting positions in Claudia's room--Kristy's in a director's chair. The older girls trade off between the desk chair and the bed. And Mallory and Jessi are on the floor. It's never a case of "The floor's not comfortable to sit on. I need to get a couple of fold out chairs or borrow some of the other movable chairs in the house!" Logic: We're sitting on the floor but at least we're in this "cool" and "in" club. That's better than being on the outside looking in!

[anabellabobella]

Mal and Jessi have both said they don't like to cause waves. They're intimidated by the older girls.

[road_baby]

It's kinda dumb that I hated Artemis Fowl so much seeing as my fave in the Harry Potter series was Draco. But again I think that there's a difference between a Magnificent Bastard and just a plain asshole. Dawn is definitely just an asshole.

Mal and Jessi aren't even mentioned during the meetings. Jessi had a sitting job with the Arnolds earlier but that's all they've been in it.

[shatisarockgod]

And when Richard says he brought lobster in oyster sauce, she mutters 'ew'. Even though! Even though that little bitch has eaten fish and chicken and never complained!--Obnoxious. I can understand speaking up if you've got a food allergy and you really can't eat something. But the rest of the time, I wish all the girls would just eat their food and stay silent. There's no problem saying something like "The other girls like to eat junk food but that's not really something I'm into and I prefer eating healthy foods/Dawn likes to eat healthy foods and you couldn't catch her anywhere near our junk food." instead of all the ews!, gross!, and faces being made

[shatisarockgod]

Dawn overhears and smirks to herself. --I just can't understand this writing style. These are girls that are supposed to be friendly and supportive, people that you root for. This isn't supposed to be a group of Nellie Olesons where bitch is in

[road_baby]

Yeah, I can't stand how the BSC acts like someone eating something they don't like is cause for a hissy fit. Dawn's the MOST guilty of this, of course. There are things that I don't like to eat that my family does so what do I do? I DON'T EAT IT. I tease my Grammy some that she likes feet and tripe, but it's in FUN. She teases me about eating roe. We don't act like one another is disgusting. God, I hate Dawn.

MA says that Richard and Sharon know something is up between her and Dawn, but want them to work it out themselves. Which is stupid. I get that it's just for plot reasons, but it's still stupid. Sharon def should have taken Dawn aside and tell her to stop being such a brat.

I brought it up and I was damn near laughed under the bed

That is a VERY good point. It's like, the BSC said it wasn't a good idea so, that should have been the end of it regardless of how MA felt

[heymalice]

that's totally the problem here - normalizing abusive relationships&making them seem like they are no big deal. i think that is probably the most frightening thing about these books, because it is an ongoing, never ending theme throughout the entire series. there were other awful aspects thrown in here&there that are horrific as well, but as this is the running theme, i think it's MAYBE the worst part, because it kinda props up all that other shit as well.

fucked up that these girls are promoted as "the best friends you'll ever have", when they are so insanely abusive, not only towards one another, but just about anyone who crosses their path. it's more like, "with friends like these, who needs enemies?" really disturbing shit.

[andromeda331]

Seriously how can anyone have written this and ended it with Mary Anne staying friends with these people? It might be one thing if the BSC hugely apologized and did things make up for their complete horrible behave. That's a big might. Except of course they don't do that and there is no excuse for their behavior. It was a haircut.

Although it wouldn't have made a difference Dawn's comment about more clothes Richard and Sharon should have nipped that in the butt by reminding her of all the airplane trips and shopping trips Dawn no doubt goes on with Sharon.

[shatisarockgod]

Seriously how can anyone have written this and ended it with Mary Anne staying friends with these people? It might be one thing if the BSC hugely apologized and did things make up for their complete horrible behave.--And it's not like this is something light. I can understand being with friends and somebody says something without thinking and the remark stings/hurts your feelings a bit but you still remain friends with that person. But this isn't the case with these girls. These girls are obviously thinking of shit to say and do to Mary Anne to HURT her. They're teaming up against somebody the way schoolyard bullies would team up against somebody to beat the crap out of them. And yeah, I realize the girls are bullies and they're aiming more for feelings instead of beating the shit out of Mary Anne. My opinion is that it doesn't really matter if somebody is targeting you to beat up or if they're fucking with your feelings--it hurts either way imo.

[road_baby]

Oh, I'll get to the apology situation in this book, trust me. I'm getting pissed just thinking about it.

[anabellabobella]

This book was ghostwritten by our good friend Petey Lerangis but the idea had to be Ann's, right?

Let me answer this. Not only are the ideas all Ann's, but she outlines every chapter. She is 100% to blame for everything. Crappy writing (like Ellen Miles' abuse of parenthesis when commas will due, like this) is on the ghosties, but the stories are all Ann's. Her ideas, her outlines, and she made any edits she saw fit to make the stories perfectly line up with her visions.

And riddle me this, aren't oh...plane tickets expensive?!

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

She says she should have invited Dawn along.

No, Honey, you shouldn't have. Did Dawn invite you when she went out with Sharon?

That if you do something as mundane as getting a haircut, you deserve to be shunned?

This book contains the overreaction of my childhood. It's a goddamned haircut. That's it. A haircut.

[road_baby]

With every book I snark, I just think Ann must be a really awful person more and more. Like, the books could have had good lessons in them but things always go all wahoonie shaped. I don't know why this woman is such a victim blamer. Or why the hurt party always ends up apologising. This woman doesn't deserve fans. Or cats.

[anabellabobella]

Thank goodness she never wrote a BSC book on assault....

[heymalice]

omfg no kidding. i feel sick to my stomach just thinking of how disgusting it would've been!

[ladymrose]

Poor Mary Anne. I really get where she's coming from, knowing she should stand up for herself, but being afraid to; and second-guessing herself that maybe, just maybe, she really did do something wrong. She probably realizes that even if she tries to calmly and maturely tell everyone to back off, they would jump down her throat. And if she made a good point, they would retaliate by saying something like, "You've got it all wrong, we didn't mean it that way, you're the one overreacting!"/insert additional defensive tactic to embarrass MA further here. It's a no-win situation if one isn't used to being assertive. Which brings us back to the abuse theme: no matter what, it's always the victim's fault.

[road_baby]

I agree that if MA had stood up for herself, the BSC would have blamed her. I really wish she had stood up for herself anyway, instead of crawling back to them, begging for forgiveness. This book is seriously fucked.