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Claudia and the Terrible Truth (1-5)

May 21, 2016 19:25

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shatisarockgod May 22 2016, 00:26:14 UTC

But I managed to get back in and not a moment too soon, because I missed BSC Snark and I missed taking the piss out of terrible books from our childhoods!--Welcome back ( ... )

shatisarockgod May 22 2016, 00:28:04 UTC

the Pikes, who force their oldest daughter to be a secondary mommy to the too many kids they decided to have. --I still hate Mallory had to leave because she was being bullied so much at school but I'm still glad she left Stoneybrook. Here's hoping her life is better away from her family, her school, her "friends" that love to put her down, etc. Again, I can understand a kid having some chores and helping out SOME. But it's wrong to force the 11 year old to do everything ( ... )

the1812overture May 22 2016, 07:17:19 UTC

I think Ann lives in fucking Mayberry or something.

Nah. Even Mayberry handled special episodes with more tact and grace.

He starts crying and pleading

The pleading is fear, which is on a different plain than just feeling bad, and the tears back that up. Unless a child is hypersensitive, I'd be concerned about this reaction from a child. I saw this as a parent of a hypersensitive child.

the1812overture May 22 2016, 07:11:36 UTC

Idk if the default opinion from the writers was "Oh, words don't hurt! YOU'RE the one to blame if it does hurt you. Don't be a wimp and grow some thicker skin!"

In 1998, there was still a saying: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

Ironically, words are more likely to leave permanent scars. It's easier for more people to move past physical abuse. It's the words that last. Words hurt the deepest.

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kahran042 May 22 2016, 03:51:36 UTC

Claudia puts peanut butter on the celery and wtf EW.

Actually, peanut butter on celery is pretty good, IMHO.

shortsweetcynic May 23 2016, 01:01:11 UTC

yeah!! one of my favorite snacks. add raisins and it's ants on a log!

the1812overture May 22 2016, 07:07:50 UTC

An amazing book on child abuse is I Won't Let Them Hurt You by Linda Barr. It was originally published in 1988, but has been republished in ebook format. I read that book in the 90's, and it still hurts my heart. It was so well done that I haven't been able to re-read it. It was so real, and I felt Katie's pain and confusion about what to do.

That being said, some material in this snark may offend you.

These books are so bad that I'm offended by their publication. I'm not at all offended by snarks that I see as out attempts at skewering Ann, and I take them all in that manner. Anything that could be offensive in a snark I real sarcastically, and that makes it make snark-sense. So snark away.

That being said, Peaches is quite reluctant to leave Lynn alone with Claudia, but mainly because she is leaving her for an extended period of time for the first time and not because Claudia is a creepy baby-napper. Claudia's mother reassures Peaches that Claudia is a "professional babysitter" and that her child is in good hands.If Ann ( ... )

shatisarockgod May 22 2016, 07:14:41 UTC

I ALWAYS wondered why those girls NEVER ask the parents if it's okay to leave. In the pre-cell days, I ALWAYS asked so that parents could either say no, or have a heads-up about why they might get the answering machine.--I think can answer that one. They can't risk the opportunity of having a parent that might tell them "No, I'd rather you stick around the house." That might not be the real answer but it's the first thing that came to my mind. I know the Stoneybrook parents had the Big Gulp version of the Kool-Aid so they probably wouldn't even say a word if the girls wanted to take the kids to another town. Still, that's my answer.

syphabelnades May 22 2016, 14:57:46 UTC

At the time he wasn't going off the handle about the peanut butter. He was just asking "Who left this peanut butter open on the counter" and raising his voice after nobody answered him. I don't see that as a red flag. The red flag is that he insulted his sons after Claudia finally admitted she was the one who left the peanut butter.

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syphabelnades May 22 2016, 20:59:15 UTC

The Full House child abuse episode was a classic. Even the Full House snarkers have a hard time snarking that one because it was handled surprisingly well.

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syphabelnades May 22 2016, 21:34:40 UTC

It was Uncle Jesse and Stephanie. (: No one else knew about what was going on with Charles. Steph only told Jesse.

road_baby May 23 2016, 23:24:10 UTC

I could give you so many hugs and kittens for saying you hate kids. Everyone in my family has a couple dozen brats and treats me like a ogre for not cooing over them constantly. I have never liked kids, especially babies, and always wondered why the BSC always fawned over them. I like my freedom/money/sanity. Sorry not sorry.

You're absolutely right that hitting your kids isn't the only way to be abusive. All your examples are spot on. I even caught on to them as a kid. The other Pike kids can't clean a spill or wash their hands and need Mallory to do it for them?! They let the triplets abuse Nicky and don't ever step in in that?! Same with Karen. She abuses her four year old brother and everyone just laughs it off as her being 'so imaginative!' I'm always shocked when I think how Ann wanted us to love Karen and made her out to be the worst brat in the series. Even for the times, Ann was a garbage writer.