Under the heading of Destroying Someone's Career Just to Get Ratings, a local news team in Pennsylvania aired a piece exposing the erotic romance pen name of a local high school teacher with a segment called Parents: English Teacher Writes Racy Novels.
ASSHOLES.
The piece features charming quotes from parents and former students who call her work disgusting and give not-so-veiled accusations that she must be having inappropriate thoughts about her students. Because yes, as a romance writer, I can't interact with another human being without picturing them naked and mid-coitus. It's a curse. In fact, I'm thinking of you reading this right now and OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!
Does she write her books during class time? No. Was there any fault with her job performance? Nada. Was she advertising her activities, selling her books to minors or corrupting their morals in class? Nope. Otherwise her former students probably wouldn't have been "shocked" to discover this 25 year veteran of the teaching profession also happened to be an erotic romance author in her spare time. Her private time. Her own freaking life which she went to an effort to keep private and separate and you just stomped all over that by splashing it up on the evening news as a supposed warning to parents. Well done, WNEP. The Pulitzer is right around the corner for this brilliant piece of investigative witch-hunting.
If you'd like to know how to contact the station to let your feelings be known or lend your support to Judy Mays, the details are all up at Smart Bitches.
Did y'all notice the heading "Hot for Teacher" that was splashed across one of her book covers during the lead-in? Stay classy, WNEP.
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*sigh* and now it's up at ABC.com too. Bigger A**hats. I hope she gets a ton of sales out of it, but the whole thing is a witch hunt.
LOL My verification word is aboot -- how did it know I'm Canadian?
Yeah, I'm hoping the publicity boost is worth the mountain of crap she'll have to face.
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