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Is There Something Extra-Special -- And Extra-Stressful -- Between Sisters?

Much has been made about Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer, the writer whose gang violence memoir, Love and Consequences, turned out to be a fabrication. But, the New York Times asks today, what of Cyndi Hoffman, Peggy's older sister? Hoffman is the one who turned "tattletale" and blew the whistle on Peggy. Her own sister. "We have powerful expectations of loyalty from a sister," Marcia Millman, sociology professor and author of The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart tells the Times. "But along with the idealized image of sisters, that they are always close, there is a stereotype that sisters are very competitive. It's the two extremes." They say blood is thicker than water, but is the truth thicker than blood? More »

1:00 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Dodai
5,472 views, 172 comments

Latest by lola82: Dude, my big sister ratted my ass out for shit I didn't even do when we lived together...we tolerate each other know. The Unabomber's brother "ratted" him out. Thank jesus. Would I rat her out over a book? I dunno. Guess it more »

no love, just consequences

Did Faux Memoirist Peggy Seltzer Reveal A Culture Of Narcissism Or Racism?

Following yesterday's outing of ex-gang member/ Love and Consequences author Margaret Jones as middle-class private school grad Peggy Seltzer, cultural critics are punditing all over the place about what the rash of fake memoirs means to America. To the LA Times' Tim Rutten, the publication of these first-person misery memoirs is a reflection of a deeply ingrained American culture of narcissism: "The only unchallenged moral authority has become that of victims. This should not be read as an expression of sympathy toward the injured; instead, it's really an extension of the culture of narcissism's influence into the world of letters. It's a view that asserts that only those who have experienced pain or torment have a right speak of it, though others may participate vicariously through their eyes." More »

9:30 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Jessica
5,099 views, 191 comments

Latest by cindel: @leMaldeTete: I agree. You were horrible and crass by telling me "fuck you". That's discussing things civilly alright. more »