Stage mothers aren't just in Hollywood

I just watched the movie Judy, (reviewed in a previous blogpost) and one subplot is that she was messed up because her mother pushed her to perform on stage and later in movies so she never had a regular life like going to the movies or dating boys without it being exploited by the press. 

Yes, a lot of her problem was also substance abuse (becoming hooked on amphetamines to keep her weight down for the films) but like many addicts, her "substance abuse" would probably never had occurred if she had not been abused, and like many addicts, she used drugs and alcohol to cope with life.

It brought to mind the parents of Greta, who have backgrounds in show business, who seem to be doing the same thing to her: because a normal parent would have stopped her acting out about her obsessions, not pushed her to giving speeches to the public when everyone with a lick of sense knows that she is not an expert in climate change,

so why use a mentally ill lass to push your agenda? Because if you criticize her, you are evil. 

and because they got the idea from Malala: 
(Malala is a real heroine, shot by the Taliban for blogging about her love of going to high school, which they opposed...and her activism is something she knows about personally: the need for girls to be educated.)

In Greta's case, she doesn't know things close up: only what she has been told. 

What is a clue that she shouldn't be giving speeches is how she has been almost rabid in her hate against those who disagree: making one think that this anger is not personal but what psychologists call "projection": the psychological equivalent to kicking the dog if you are mad at your husband.

So one had to laugh when Trumpieboy got criticized for telling her to chill it and go see a movie with a friend. 

ah, but no: the twittersphere is almost unanimous for crying:
How dare he criticize a child!

Except the way I read it was that he was criticizing her puppetmasters for not letting her be a normal teenager.

and indeed, the latest story is this:

she said that those who oppose her need to be placed against a wall.

In English this idiom means to execute someone, (up against the wall means being shot by a firing squad in front of a wall), so this was quickly made headlines saying she is inciting violence.

However, Greta insists it means holding people accountable (which is true: a better translation of this idiom from Swedish would be to nail them to the wall, as in nailing a poster to the wall so everyone can read what you said). 

But the damage was done.

but anyway, she is taking Trumpieboy's advice and taking a short vacation.

Sigh.

Will somebody please rescue this poor tyke from her handlers before she joins the rank of has been child stars who burn out quickly and destroy their lives?

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I'm not the only one who thinks this. After I googled headlines on the subject I found that the WaExaminer just published a similar opinion piece questioning her exploitation, and it has more details about her family and mental illnesses.

If what that article says is true, then it makes her exploitation worse. WTF are her parents thinking?