Basically, weird and inhuman and mean as it sounds, and I don't mean for you to be cruel, but stop treating your mother like a human being.Treat her like the hazard she has become.

The parents on the show were predictably clueless as is normal for the show but these parents we cruel too.

For decades, City of God — whose brutal past was immortalized in a 2002 film — was one of the city’s most fearsome neighborhoods, so dangerous that even the police rarely dared to enter.

That is not to minimize the brutality and seriousness of these places of course, but I think the Democratic Republic of Congo is a striking example, and there are other examples as well.

And there was one decidedly positive result: whether kind or cruel, gossip was associated with a greater sense of social support for the perpetuator.