One thing that Sheenan and her posse haven't given much thought to is that while our culture pretty much gives a lot of sympathy and leeway to sympathetic people, protracted 'woe is me' acts tend to wear very thin, very quickly.
Mrs. Holloway-Twitty is a recent example. Basically a sympathetic person caught in a sympathetic situation, in just about two months she went from poster-mom to pest & nuisence that people have grown tired of. That's not to say her situation is any less sympathetic: it's just that she has become less sympathetic.
That's so true.