Megyn Kelly
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You remember this book where she claimed she had recovered memories?
of growing up in Amarillo, Texas.
Nobody knows who Amy Griffin is, but she's married to a very rich $6 billion man in New York, and she's used her husband's money to invest in various female empowerment-type companies like Gwyneth Paltrow and people like that who then all...
promoted her book.
So it became a bestseller.
And then she made the Time 100 as this terribly put-upon Me Too victim.
Like, feel sorry for me.
I don't.
Enjoy your $6 billion.
And
It turns out that, according to The New York Times, she may have stolen the story from a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who she grew up with in Amarillo, Texas, that these weren't Amy's recovered memories.
These were her.
Like classmates' memories.
And it tracks because Amy was from a very well-to-do family.
She was very popular.
She was like the head cheerleader or what have you.
And that's not generally the one that the inappropriate...
gross math teacher chooses to abuse.
Sadly, they usually choose girls from broken families, can be boys too, especially when it comes to childhood sexual abuse, broken families who can't threaten them as much or who can be demeaned or diminished or don't have means and so on.
In any event, it doesn't mean it can't happen to a well-off girl, but there were holes in the story from the start.