Hannah Maguire

And this is a fact.

You can look it up.

What all of those people are doing are talking about the pushing of sexual boundaries.

Aha.

And they're all talking about taboos.

And what does it even mean?

Like, are we more shocked because she's a woman?

Absolutely.

That's because men do this a lot more than women do.

Also a fact.

But like, it's so interesting that she's all for the pushing of boundary until we're talking about legacy and we're talking about dynasty and we're talking about where your inheritance is going.

No, or they don't challenge her.

because she's terrifying yeah and there's also like one of the like questions people ask is like do you think you have a drinking problem and they're like do you hide your drinking do you lie about how much you drink so then I think that sort of spills into people telling other people about how much they're drinking and it being too much and everyone being a bit like but no one's saying anything oh well it's not a secret so it's fine do you know what I mean I think it could be like an element of that of like well I'm talking about it I'm not hiding it I've got nothing to hide there's nothing wrong with it I'm not hiding anything yeah maybe

Over dinner with friends, Barbara herself would make all sorts of crude comments about sleeping with her own son, like it was gossip rather than a shocking crime.

She didn't show any guilt.

and really did seem to think it was a perfectly legitimate response to addressing Tony's troublesome sexuality.

And the extent to which this would have served to distort Tony's reality can't be overstated.

It's one thing when sexual abuse happens behind closed doors, but imagine the damage it would have done to Tony psychologically to have his mother running around town telling everyone what she was doing.

That she was helping him.

After moving back to New York City in 1970, Barbara joined a creative writing class.