This is EXACTLY what Persephone said:
People pile onto CK Dex for decrying this situation?? What the fuck? The fact that she’s intimately connected to a Moderator doesn’t give her a pass here. You don’t like that? That’s the reality of the situation. If it was an O.P.'er with 201 posts and her real-life Significant Other who was a freshly registered Doper with 48 post, this entire thing would not have come down this way. Ahem. The O.P. could have read identically…but this event is filtered through Priveledge. She gets Priveledge because she’s connected to Euty, and he has been dealt a blow because of his position in the Administration of the SDMB. -shrug- You wanna stand up on the pedastal, you gotta have really fine balance. You get unbalanced, you fall off, you get your chops together again and see if they’ll let you back up. Pretty simple.
The fact that she chose to go out of state, and leave her kids behind in a situation that by her own words and admissions ( see quote above ) was " Far too badly kept for children to live in " is a plain fact.
She wrote it, we read it. It is in her O.P. CK Dex was entirely appropriate in voicing concerns. I’m a State Mandated Reporter. New York State is not the only state that makes use of such people. If I witness a situation that I deem to be one of abuse, neglect or immediate danger ( be it physical, emotional or otherwise ) I am legally bound to call the police. RIGHT THEN AND THERE. I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass WHO the person was and yeah, that mean’s I’d be a sneaky little rat and dime out my homies. Oh, boo hoo. It is beyond appalling that anyone would dare attack a member here, who shows shock and dismay at the unfolding of that original thread.
I’d have made that call, and slept well that night knowing I’d done the right thing. Read that O.P. Read it two or three times, read the tone and the words. Really get into it, as I just did before writing this.
Everyone here gets to have their two cents, and mine are that attacking CK Dex is so far beyond hypocrisy as to range well into the area of Freudian Transferral. You are the wrong-doer, and so of course, you point the finger angrily at the person accusing you. It shows weakness of character- not strength, to attack someone who approves of doing the right thing in the protection and defense of children. Period.
It’s all very lovely that some Dopers sprang to the aid of Persephone and went and cleaned her house a few times. That was generous beyond measure, and I’ve no doubt but that her children will feel better and happier in a cleaner environment. Go back in 180 days, and see how the house looks then. The pattern of inappropriate amounts of parental guidance and housekeeping that led to the initial call ( which, as we all know by now, Persephone HERSELF felt was entirely justified ) is a pattern that is not fixed by a few friends rushing in to try to patch up things so she can get her kids back into that house.
Then again, as was announced within the last month or two by Euty. he and Persephone are to be wed at some point in the future and publicly proclaimed here their committment to one another. Perhaps the kids will wind up with one or the other parent who is more capable of maintaining a living environment that is at least minimally adequate and safe, healthy and clean for the habitation of minors.
By the way, I do agree with imthjckaz, Bookwoods played fast and loose with the O.P. Whether Persephone FELT angry at the interruption of a high ole time party weekend or not is only hers to know in reality, but her O.P. didn’t display that tone in any manner. Read it again.
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