Paige's mother came here and explained her daughter's case, minimizing the lived experiences of other people - then she accused the rest of the people in this thread of being "nasty", and extended the label to the rest of the Mer-community. I find that quite rude, since we can see by the number of post she has not been here much, and probably does not know personally many of the people around here, specially because many of us do not even live in the US.
I see where you're coming from, but a lot of people outside the community who look into it don't have the best opinion of it because they aren't in it. I say this from a place of watching a friend of mine get singled out on a FB thread and knowing that while people made some valid points, a lot of it went well beyond and I felt the need to speak out for my friend. I'm not offering it as an excuse, or saying you're wrong to say what you are. I just don't want Paige's mom to be viewed as some kinda lackie or someone just running their mouth is all. Or a fake person with a fake account. She and her daughter are excellent well respected mermaids entitled to their opinions, and I can 100% appreciate how this post could come off the wrong way to someone on the outside. It's a lot of assumptions to jump to about a person you don't know, and just perpetuates the "hate network" rumour. All I saw her express was that she had a good experience and was shocked how negative everyone was being, and it made her concerned. I think that's valid from her point of view. She didnt say anyone lied or made up their issues. She just brought what she could to the conversation.


Jamie- my posts were more trying to springboard off your sucky experience to elaborate more generally. I did my best to give you any specific solutions to your specific scenario that I could. I hope you'll follow up with Mimi cuz she's great. She's not on here, but you can find her on FB "Mermaid Mimi". I know you aren't making a bash eric thread you're trying to tell your story but some people do enjoy jumping in on the sensationalism and my joke about it escalating wasn't directed at you so much as his emails and posts. I believe you did everything you said you did and my intention was not to call that into question- sorry if it came off that way. I just find these threads end up very multi-faceted and sort of opening a pandora's box of issues to be addressed. It does frustrate me that 7 years later this is still an issue. I remember he stopped making these tails for a while but then brought them back due to demand.