I pit Alice Walker

[monstro]

@Sampiro

While Alice comes across as the most self-serving of mothers and grandmothers (supposedly she said something to the effect of “I couldn’t care less” when told her only child was expecting a baby), in fairness her daughter seems kind of a piece of work herself. She wants nothing to do with her mother, so she legally changed her name to Walker (from Leventhal) and makes a comfortable living writing “my famous mommy was a scumbucket” books and articles. Get over it, kid… the best revenge is to make it on your own as Rebecca Leventhal and then tell her to go screw in an interview that isn’t totally focused on your mother.

I totally cosign on this. Alice Walker may be a great writer (although, to be honest, I haven’t cared for much of her work after “The Temple of My Family”), but that stands totally apart from her personal suckitude. Rebecca wants to exploit both of these aspects of her mother for her own benefit–which makes me question some of the things she’s come up (although I have no doubt that Walker was the opposite of Mother of the Year material). And let’s not get into the stupid “Now that I’m a mother I live and breath my child and want nothing else in the world” nonsense that Rebecca’s written about. It’s gag-o-rific. The child’s got issues.

[BigT]

@monstro

I totally cosign on this. Alice Walker may be a great writer (although, to be honest, I haven’t cared for much of her work after “The Temple of My Family”), but that stands totally apart from her personal suckitude. Rebecca wants to exploit both of these aspects of her mother for her own benefit–which makes me question some of the things she’s come up (although I have no doubt that Walker was the opposite of Mother of the Year material). And let’s not get into the stupid “Now that I’m a mother I live and breath my child and want nothing else in the world” nonsense that Rebecca’s written about. It’s gag-o-rific. The child’s got issues.

Thing is, where do you think those issues came from?

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

@Alessan

German Jews

Is that what those silly Nazis meant by “the final solution”?

[Jackmannii]

@Sampiro

Writer most famous for The Color Purple.

Oh, I confused her with Nancy Walker.

[Sampiro]

@Jackmannii

Oh, I confused her with Nancy Walker.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by Bounty the quicker picker upper in a diner somewhere and don’t notice it.

[descamisado]

Temple of My Familiar.