Yeah, that’s how it came to our attention. I’m a fool, and how it bears on the custody battle really wasn’t what was boggling my mind. I’m really asking what that has to do with where his kids go to school. He’s saying that his inability to deal with competition would make his children’s lives at the school suffer. I’m saying that wouldn’t be a problem if he was an adult.
As far as giving him a break for being a fool: I usually think long and hard before I hit send. I know that having things written out in text gives the words a perverse power, while not necessarily communicating the meaning you intended. Words are powerful, text even more so. On top of that, while on any given day I’ve said batshit crazy things that I would be embarrassed to have repeated back to me. I don’t think I’ve really worried about who’s “ripping off” who stylistically for a great long time. As a musician that is mining history for his inspiration, he should have gotten past that kind of talk a looooong time ago, and he’s a douche for merely saying it. It shouldn’t even be an idea that his brain has rolling around for his mouth to use. That he would use it as a reason to make his kid’s life screwy is even worse.