Anne Atkins Seduces Her Own Son Online So You Don’t Have to!
Talk about taking the cake. This story is nowhere as egregious as others we’ve profiled, but…damn. The “ick” factor cannot be denied. Musings of a Girl writes about a Daily Mail article by journalist Anne Atkins, in which one of Atkins’ friends dared her to try and “befriend” one of her own kids through a social networking site. So Atkins did what any good mum would do: she hopped onto the Bebo network, and created a fictitious persona for a 17-year-old girl called CheshaKitten – a sexed-up reference to Lewis Carroll, and a bit of an inside joke to boot. She then proceeded to make her teen son Ben fall in love with her.
Uh, I mean, with “CheshaKitten”. Not with her. That would be creepy and wrong…right?
Needless to say, Ben was pissed when he found out, though he seems to have gotten over it. I imagine that, after 13+ years of dealing with his mother’s whacked-out shit, he’s gotten used to her crazy by now. How does Atkins feel about crushing her son’s feelings? Ben, after all, had fallen in love with his mum – er, I mean, CheshaKitten! Says Atkins The Elder: “I felt wretched, probably much worse than Ben did. But at least I’d won my bet and proved that with ingenuity and guile one really can pretend to be anybody on the internet.”
Yep. ‘Cause winning a bet? WAY more crucial than your son’s emotions.
Now…ready for the Grand Finale? Anne Atkins is A VICAR’s WIFE. Atkins came to prominence as a commentator when she denounced a celebration by the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement at Southwark Cathedral. Wow. Religious fundamentalism, homophobia and creepy Oedipal deception? What a woman!
So, for the record: being gay? Disgraceful in the eyes of the Lord. Seducing your son over the Internet? Now you’re speaking God’s language!
(Hat tip: Emari)
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December 14th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Being raised by a nutjob does have some interesting effects upon one’s ability to relate to women during those all important formative years.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Eeeewww. Just…eeeewww. I really have nothing more intelligent to say. Must go take a so-hot-it’s-sterilizing shower now.
December 15th, 2006 at 6:19 am
[...] The story goes like this… A mother was challenged by one of her friends that she couldn’t get her son to become attracted to a fictitious person on the internet. Anne Atkins accepted the challenge and succeeded. In doing so, she broke her son’s heart as he truly fell in love with this person he thought he knew so well. Let’s talk about the obvious stuff here. [...]
December 15th, 2006 at 6:20 am
My opinion isn’t going to be very popular, but here it is …
http://www.thriftymommy.com/teach-your-kids-to-be-careful-online-they-never-know-who-they-might-meet/
December 15th, 2006 at 7:35 am
While I understand the purpose of teaching a lesson, this makes me feel a little dirty and a lot nauseaous.
Couldn’t she have taught the lesson without it getting this far?
ICK.
December 15th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Oh my grief. I had to read that twice to make certain I understood that she intentionally targeted her own son. Not that it would be good if she targeted someone else’s kid but it’s really her ego could only be satisfied by crushing her son.
I get the lesson she was trying to ”teach” him but that’s like letting him ride without a seatbelt and crashing into a tree to school him on ‘’safety”. There are just too many other ways for her point to have been made that didn’t require betraying her child.
And Kelly, there is no comparison to telling your kids about Santa and faking an online romantic interest in them to win a bet. While I agree that the myth of Santa usually causes no long lasting trauma, being thirteen, vulnerable and infatuated at the hands of your mom is something that is going to stick for a long, long time.
December 15th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Let me clarify that I do not think, under any circumstances, that it was ok if she actually solicited an online romance. However, faking your kids out for a short time to believe that you are someone else to prove the point that you should be careful with whom you speak to online is not necessarily a bad thing.
December 15th, 2006 at 11:21 am
I think the title of this article on this site is misleading. The way I understand it, she didn’t seduce her son if she did not in fact lead him into a face-to-face, sexual encounter. She tricked him, she enthralled him, but nothing more. She didn’t make a pervert of her self, just a jackass.
December 15th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
“Of course, I wouldn’t want to lie or find out things about Ben that he wouldn’t want me to know. But, after all, anyone browsing online can see his Bebo page for themselves.”
When does pretending to be someone else not count as lying?
December 15th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
It doesn’t. And anybody who thinks otherwise lives in a magical world we may as well not try to argue with them about.
December 16th, 2006 at 9:24 am
Actually, she did seduce him. The word seduce means “to deceive or win over”. It doesn’t have to mean sexually, although it can be used that way.
December 16th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
not a lot to say but, not everyone is this world should be a parent
December 16th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
A benevolent, sweet white lie (like Santa Claus)is one thing. Deliberately cyber-seducing your own son is quite another. That’s apples and oranges, there. There’s no point in comparing the two.
The degree of manipulation in that woman’s little con would be deeply disturbing if she’d pulled that on another adult. (Like, for example, her hubby, to see if he would be faithful, or not). But to do that to her own kid? I’m sorry, but that woman is fucked up. And I’m worried that the kid is going to wind up equally fucked up, too. The child protective agencies need to step in here, and drag that crazy bitch into therapy to make her understand that there are some lines you do NOT cross. And then they need to monitor dear Mom after that, because Mom shouldn’t need to have it explained to her that she crossed a line. It should have been totally freaking obvious to begin with.
December 17th, 2006 at 5:15 am
I WAS NOT IN LOVE WITH CHESHAKITTEN. I really don’t understand why you people have such a big problem with the whole affair. My mum knows me a hell of a lot better than you do, and she knows when she’s crossing a line with me, and that’s how she knew that I wasn’t going to care about this. Stop inventing emotions for me and go away.
December 17th, 2006 at 8:04 am
I wouldn’t be able to trust my mom for a long, long time after that.
I know a girl who had the same experience. She couldn’t have privacy on the internet, but she DID lose her virginity in a car at age 15, but not to anyone in her family.
Parents are people you’re supposed to be able to trust.
December 17th, 2006 at 8:30 am
abba-daddy’s post #12 says it all.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Ben, I have responded to your comments at http://www.musingsofagirl.co.uk
December 19th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Is this what passes for parenthood? Couldn’t she have – oh, I don’t know – spent some time sitting next to him at the computer desk and asking him to explain chat culture to her?
As the song says, “Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people”
December 20th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Wow! May he have barfed on her when he found out!
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March 10th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I’ve just come across this after an internet search into Anne Aktins. Also came across this which I thought interesting, the story was front page news in The Mail on Sunday in the UK.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question533037.html
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