Horrorcow Cecily Kellogg / CecilyK / Uppercase Woman - unrepentant terrible human being liked by no one.

[RI 360]

The only way she's in a more athletic shape is if she's into bowling.

As the ball.

those are Ragen Chastain levels of delusion. I'm sure Cecily thinks she's earned a snack after the laborious walk to the kitchen.

 

[exceptionalgoogle]

What's funny is Cecily blames "trolls" and "internet haters" for her misfortunes. But the truth is she and Charlie are so fucking gross that people have been avoiding them IRL for years. Their disgusting appearances, lack of manners and overall obnoxiousness has been alienating people from their lives--and depriving Tori of potential friendships-- since time immemorial. From her blog archives:

For reasons we don't know or understand, some folks in our neighborhood have withdrawn themselves from us over the last six months. At first I wasn't sure it was happening, but tonight it finally became unavoidably obvious.

It fucking sucks.

Today when they rejected yet another offer for the kids to play together, Tori's face was just... GAH. Heartbroken. Luckily, we were saved from a horrible scene thanks to other kids in our neighborhood coming over and distracting her.

Honestly, I don't really blame them. We're intense in person, we have strong opinions that we never shut up about, sometimes we slip and swear in front of their kids (although we're working hard on that one), and we haven't been our cheerful selves much of late thanks to our financial stuff. So, yeah, sure. Don't hang with us. Whatever.

But when this kind of direct rejection – including actually walking away when it's clear that the kids want to play together – it stops being just about how I can be an annoying asshole, and it becomes an issue of me wanting to get all up in their business because LOOK, PEOPLE, CAN'T YOU TELL MY DAUGHTER'S FEELINGS ARE HURT?

I realize that this is not a particularly earth shattering issue. It's just yet another mom feeling angry and defensive on behalf of her kiddo. Truth be told, this is likely just yet another case of me flying off the handle for no reason and making a bigger deal out of it than I need to.

Chances are, Tori won't remember this.

Chances are, the neighbors have something going on that has nothing to do with us.

Chances are, I'm being over sensitive.

But ultimately? It really sucks. I never want my daughter to have that look on her face again; and I recognize my inability to protect her in that particular way.

No, Cecily. You were able to protect her, you just were too fucking lazy to try acting like a grown-up. Too lazy--by your own admission--to bathe more than once a week. Too lazy--by your own admission--to clean your bathroom more than twice a year. Too lazy--by your own admission--to do the dishes more than twice a month. I could go on.

Good parents don't want their kids hanging out with fat, lazy losers or the kids they are teaching to take after them. You and Charlie broke a kitchen window and didn't bother to replace the glass for YEARS. In fact, when you went into foreclosure and fled your home for the ghetto in the dead of night, the trash bag over the missing pane was still i place. This says it all about you, really. Blame others as much as you like, but it is your own failure to own your shit--your own failure to take responsibility for your Dumpster fire of a life--that has led to this. You did it to yourselves.

 

[The Great Chandler]

I'm reminded of some CNN editor (who happens to be a lesbo) who wants her daughter to be gay too. To me, it's not right to put some LGBT burdens on you kid unless they're old enough to understand (at least the late teens or something). But in Cecily's case, she only forces more weight on her daughter over something a kid her age can't grasp. For what? To get asspats.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

You're right, but some of them simply have to make the stories gross and unappealing, and that's the thing that confuses me. They don't want to act like a refined escort, they want to act like a deranged hooker. If they want to be empowered with sex, they should at least be higienic about it.

A lot of women talk that way because they think it's funny. It can be just locker room banter. I mean, men talk about their dicks all the time and it's no big deal.

Some women do it because they think bragging about all the dick they get makes them look desirable and therefore valuable human beings, though. In those cases it's just immaturity and insecurity. They make the stories gross because they don't know how to be sexy or refined.

 

[The Great Chandler]

A lot of women talk that way because they think it's funny. It can be just locker room banter. I mean, men talk about their dicks all the time and it's no big deal.

Some women do it because they think bragging about all the dick they get makes them look desirable and therefore valuable human beings, though. In those cases it's just immaturity and insecurity. They make the stories gross because they don't know how to be sexy or refined.

Basically like the autistic guy who has a narrow view of sex and a dash of low self-esteem(Chris Chan).

 

[Barbarella]

The mind boggles. Cecily stated the problem herself, and yet she's STILL the victim.

"We're intense in person, we have strong opinions that we never shut up about, sometimes we slip and swear in front of their kids (although we're working hard on that one), and we haven't been our cheerful selves much of late thanks to our financial stuff."

And knowing that she behaves like that in front of other people's children, Cecily still blames these parents for not wanting their kids around Tori.

Tori almost certainly emulates the foul language she hears but even if she doesn't, when your kid plays with another, whether at your house or not, you do socialize with that parent. It's unavoidable. You have play dates. Would you leave your child with Cecily based on her own description? Would she even leave her kid with the parent who was a tea party type?

These neighbors may not believe in abortion, they may not be new wave feminists, they may not want their kid to know what pansexual is. Hell, they may even be evil republicans. Having this obese, loud mouth woman constantly (by her own admission) shouting her strong opinions and no doubt calling you racist/rapist/bigot if you dare to disagree, well, that would try anybody's patience.

Yes, Madison, you can go over and play with Tori!

And she knows that, she writes about it, admits it and STILL doesn't see that it's all in her control. If she'd kept her mouth shut, the neighborhood kids would be playing with Tori. At least until it was discovered that Tori herself is a foul-mouthed, ungrateful, hateful, uncontrollable brat, which is our second option here. But so far, all she probably wants to do is play with other kids and their toys. Her background may be so engrained that she comes up with stuff other kids don't need to know.

Friend, "My mom makes the best brownies!"
Tori, "My mom gives the best blowjobs"
Friend, "What's a blowjob?"
Tori, "I think it's part of a milkshake"
Friend, "Mom! What's a blowjob? Can I have one?"

This is the kind of hypocrisy that makes this cow so interesting. She knows what's wrong -her loud mouth, inappropriate opinions, and negative attitude, but she expects everybody to overlook it, because Tori. But will she do that in return? Never. The world has to change to accommodate the exceptional Mrs Kellogg.

 

[exceptionalgoogle]

Make no mistake, Tori drops F-bombs and other swears in front of kids and her parents on the regular. Cecily and Charlie are proud of this, and brag about it. Gee, I wonder why nobody wants to hang out with their family!

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

I love that dog's face. Pit bulls have very expressive faces and this one is saying "oh god help, they'll eat me if they run out of groceries"

 

[exceptionalgoogle]

I love that dog's face. Pit bulls have very expressive faces and this one is saying "oh god help, they'll eat me if they run out of groceries"

Cecily only eats organic groceries from Whole Foods. When she's not around, she leaves Charlie and Tori to survive on rotten meat and gas station food (according to Charlie). Maybe that's why Charlie is getting cozy with this younger, thinner, much prettier version of Cecily online: https://www.facebook.com/danielle.vintschger --who knows, she MIGHT be in the market for an unemployable charity case with a gimpy arm, who only learned to drive when he was 38 years old.

 

[buffaloWildWings]

Cecily only eats organic groceries from Whole Foods. When she's not around, she leaves Charlie and Tori to survive on rotten meat and gas station food (according to Charlie). Maybe that's why Charlie is getting cozy with this younger, thinner, much prettier version of Cecily online: https://www.facebook.com/danielle.vintschger --who knows, she MIGHT be in the market for an unemployable charity case with a gimpy arm, who only learned to drive when he was 38 years old.

If Charlie ever decided to go O.J on her ass, the cops would probably let him get away with a warning.

 

[exceptionalgoogle]

If Charlie ever decided to go O.J on her ass, the cops would probably let him get away with a warning.

Cecily openly admits that she screams and rages at Charlie, often in front of Tori. I guess this is why she considers herself a "bad ass" [sic]. Either that or because she refuses to allow her daughter a shred of privacy. Before Cecily outed 10 year old Tori as "pansexual," she outed her for turning to her mother as a confidante about body issues. MOTHER OF THE MOTHERFUCKING YEAR.

 

[JudgingYou]

But Cecily's EMPOWERING Tori y'all. Tori's so fierce she's not like a real kid. She's a mini me who has to get schooled on all the grown up stuff so she can grow up to be fat and smug like her mom.

How does Cecily empower Tori? Well for one thing she takes her to empowering movies. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is perfect for a 9 year old because it shows how fierce and awesome women are. Besides Tori needs to learn a few basic lessons about how the real world operates.

Brutality against girls and women is a real thing that happens every day and she needs to be aware of it. After all, it doesn't just happen in the movies.

To further solidify the empowerment Cecily is going to allow Tori to dress in sexy Halloween costumes because that's fierce and feminist as shit.

In a year or two I might wince a bit if she decides to wear a “hoochie” short skirt as part of her costume and suggest she wears leggings to keep warm, but I’m not going to tell her she’s wrong for wanting to experiment with looking pretty and, yes, even sexy — because she’s just being being a normal kid.

So maybe this year, instead of clutching our pearls and bemoaning “Hoochieween,” we can instead just support our daughters, trust their decisions, and let them have some autonomy over their own bodies. What do you say?

Mother of the Year, she's not.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Cecily openly admits that she screams and rages at Charlie, often in front of Tori. I guess this is why she considers herself a "bad ass" [sic]. Either that or because she refuses to allow her daughter a shred of privacy. Before Cecily outed 10 year old Tori as "pansexual," she outed her for turning to her mother as a confidante about body issues. MOTHER OF THE MOTHERFUCKING YEAR.

"When your 7 year old actually is getting fat because you don't feed her nutritious food or bother encouraging her to exercise"

 

[exceptionalgoogle]

It's been very sad to watch Tori go from a healthy-looking child to a Cecily mini-me. This transformation has been accompanied by many images on Instagram of Tori's sedentary lifestyle, hanging out on the couch with her useless, unemployable father, hanging out on the couch with friends, screens always in front of their faces. Tori took a real interest in roller derby, but struggled to take direction after years of Philly Free School neglect. Eventually, Cecily and Charlie got sick of waking up before noon to take her to practice or games, sick of dipping into the sushi delivery fund to buy Tori adequate safety equipment. That was the end of roller derby for Tori.

This is child neglect and child abuse. Cecily and Charlie are horrendous people who should never have procreated. I have to agree with the commentator who hopes Tori reads all about her parents' mistreatment of her, as it might help her understand that she was hobbled at birth by having these two as her guardians. They were supposed to love, care, protect, and provide for her, and they have failed to do so.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

"When you're purposefully making your 7 year old fat so that they can be a mini-you."

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Usually I don't pearl-clutch about how supposedly neglected kids should be taken away from their parents. Kailyn Wilcher's daughter Gracie is developmentally stunted because of her shitty mom/grandma, and will likely amount to absolutely nothing positive, but I don't think she's neglected enough to warrant CPS coming in and seizing her.
That being said, I wish Tori could be taken from Cecily and Charlie. Cecily has proven to be incapable of giving a shit about anybody but herself and Charlie is so obsessed with being Alexander Supertramp or whatever that he doesn't have a grasp on how to live like a real person. The fact that Cecily spoils herself with fancy food but refuses to give even slightly quality food to Tori is horrible. The fact that she just gives up trying to enrich Tori's life with any kind of joy or special times, like holidays, vacations, birthdays, extracurriculars, et cetera, is horrible. The fact that she betrays her child's trust online for asspats is horrible. The fact that she encourages her child to display behaviors that socially isolate her is horrible. The condition in which they keep their house is horrible. The fact that she is denying her child an education that would provide her with necessary life skills and knowledge is horrible.
Unfortunately, unlike Gracie Wilcher, Tori is old enough that the mental and emotional damage is already done. If she was placed in the "system", she'd likely grow to be another promiscious, drug-abusing young person who grew up shuffled from one home to another. If she was placed with a sane relative - like a well-meaning grandma or aunt - she would likely have serious behavioral problems and drive the relative up the wall with her cursing, belligerence, and defiance. She's fucked unless something in her life gives her a serious shove towards positivity.

Speaking of drugs, do we know if that's another fun thing the Kelloggs get up to? I can see Charlie toking up or using hallucinogens now and then if he could afford it.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Usually I don't pearl-clutch about how supposedly neglected kids should be taken away from their parents. Kailyn Wilcher's daughter Gracie is developmentally stunted because of her shitty mom/grandma, and will likely amount to absolutely nothing positive, but I don't think she's neglected enough to warrant CPS coming in and seizing her.
That being said, I wish Tori could be taken from Cecily and Charlie. Cecily has proven to be incapable of giving a shit about anybody but herself and Charlie is so obsessed with being Alexander Supertramp or whatever that he doesn't have a grasp on how to live like a real person. The fact that Cecily spoils herself with fancy food but refuses to give even slightly quality food to Tori is horrible. The fact that she just gives up trying to enrich Tori's life with any kind of joy or special times, like holidays, vacations, birthdays, extracurriculars, et cetera, is horrible. The fact that she betrays her child's trust online for asspats is horrible. The fact that she encourages her child to display behaviors that socially isolate her is horrible. The condition in which they keep their house is horrible. The fact that she is denying her child an education that would provide her with necessary life skills and knowledge is horrible.
Unfortunately, unlike Gracie Wilcher, Tori is old enough that the mental and emotional damage is already done. If she was placed in the "system", she'd likely grow to be another promiscious, drug-abusing young person who grew up shuffled from one home to another. If she was placed with a sane relative - like a well-meaning grandma or aunt - she would likely have serious behavioral problems and drive the relative up the wall with her cursing, belligerence, and defiance. She's fucked unless something in her life gives her a serious shove towards positivity.

Speaking of drugs, do we know if that's another fun thing the Kelloggs get up to? I can see Charlie toking up or using hallucinogens now and then if he could afford it.

Sadly, you may well be right. Also, I don't know about in Philadelphia, but the care system in the UK is terribad and doesn't, well, care. Often care homes do the bare minimum to avoid getting in hot water and spend more time and effort on meaningless "compliance" paperwork and not on actually setting boundaries and trying to encourage the children in care to improve their lot in life.

Here is a blog - a few years old now - by a care home worker in Britain. It is depressingly familiar from my work in Legal Aid running across people like this.

 

[Petronella]

Speaking of drugs, do we know if that's another fun thing the Kelloggs get up to? I can see Charlie toking up or using hallucinogens now and then if he could afford it.

The link is acting up for me but this is from a CNN article:

Cecily Kellogg has already had the conversation with her daughter, who is 7. Sober for 18 years, Kellogg has told her daughter in very general terms that she's a recovering drug addict and alcoholic and that addiction is a family disease.

"That is why I'm honest about my addiction, and I also tell her that she's at risk and needs to make smart decisions. At her age, this likely goes over her head, but I tell her anyway," said Kellogg, who writes for Babble.com and hosts a blog at Uppercase Woman.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

The link is acting up for me but this is from a CNN article:

More discussion that isn't age-appropriate for Tori, nice.

Makes me wonder what Cecily's drug of choice was, then. Meth? Oxy? Booze doesn't surprise me one bit.

 

[Barbarella]

I agree in this case. Gracie is fed, clothed, sheltered (too much) -her problem is she's being raised by border-line mentally challenged people so she is also now delayed. But she is in no way physically neglected, which is all those agencies care about.

Tori, OTOH, has lived without hot water, without a furnace, without a freaking window in the depths of winter, for goodness sake. In a cold climate. She's "free-range" but in reality, her parents are too lazy to take her anywhere, so she wanders a bad neighborhood alone. Yes, her emotional needs have been neglected, which CPS doesn't care about. So have her physical needs, which they do.

People also say she lived in a hoarded home-I didn't see any of those photos but won't doubt it. If so, that's another reason she could have been removed or at least threatened.

Certainly, what I've seen of their house isn't spotless but at least it wouldn't worry CPS. Neither would the school as parents are allowed to have stupid beliefs about education. The sexualization of the child is also amorphous-Tori is not being physically sexually abused and talking about her pansexuality isn't foster home worthy.

But no heat, hot water, windows unfixed, those are things CPS would care about. Probably not enough to remove her, but enough to get them to fix it.

But as noted, it's too late. Tori is ten, she is who she is. It's unlikely she'll blossom under somebody else's tutalage, that's a fantasy. She'd be resentful and angry after being taken away from her parents, and she's spent her life watching her mother have tantrums and be unable to deal with anger so we know what would happen there. It would do no good.