I went to her book signing in 2012 and I wanted to just go up and confront her but I was too chickenshit to actually do it in the end But I heard her giving her defense "Mainstream culture loves to dump on immigrant parents We have a hard job, and people don't give us credit"
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Maybe my own little attempt at empathetic projection up there was self-indulgent but COME ON, a grown man skipping a meal to spend six hours doing anything is at least a little unhealthy
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Spending those six hours on some bullshit you don't need to do for any kind of work or obligation but out of this sense of "honor"? You've got some kind of problem son Dragging a nine-year-old girl into it? You've got a BIG problem my dude
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The self-defensive argument "Hey I went hungry too, I wasn't putting her through anything I wouldn't go through myself" That's the PROBLEM dude Someone who's willing to put HIMSELF through that is already not okay, and now you're making her not okay in the same way
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I dunno man Most of the responses were very hostile and angry, a lot of them were performatively snarky, and people had the right to react that way But a lot of them were also actively trying to reach out and be at least a little empathetic and compassionate to the dad
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One lady who's a teacher who works in early childhood education did a long thread "This is why adults often misunderstand what children need based on our own baggage, even truly well-meaning adults, this is the way to acknowledge that you've messed up and apologize"
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And what really depresses me is how it all just bounced off and got lost in the noise of "people trying to cancel me" It makes me really sad Because 99.9% of the time that's just what happens The hardest damn thing is to admit you have a problem ESPECIALLY for parents
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Imagine if all teaching happened that way. "I've locked the cafeteria, you may not have lunch until you've taken six hours to try and learn how to do long division by osmosis."
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We’re not perfect, and now kiddo is older (teenager) when he is having issues we recognize, we actively say to him ‘look, this might seem minor to you, but we are concerned about it because we do the same thing and it has caused us all kinds of issues so we want to try to set ...
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... you up better before you get to when it really messes you up in college/as an adult.’ So we don’t pretend to be perfect and we include him in the process of solving the problem. That gives him the opportunity to say “I don’t think this solution is going to work for me, can...
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