Buying the extra power constituted overkill, she argued.
"We got pretty specific, what she thought constituted extreme measures, how she wanted me and my siblings to work together, who should and should not have the last word".
It may not constitute proof, she admits, but it does suggest a disturbing trend.
"The Iranian authorities should review the penal code as a matter of urgency to ensure those who cause intentional serious physical harm, like acid attacks, receive an appropriate punishment – but that must never be a penalty which in itself constitutes torture," she added.
With her two grown children living in Florida, Ms. Chatman lives by herself in Coney Island, and the smiling faces on her walls constitute what she calls her "beach family": the young lifeguards who return every summer, the officers who patrol the beach and her fellow bathroom workers.
When a philosopher says that a good life is, to the extent possible, filled with pleasure and devoid of pain, and therefore that this way of life constitutes wellbeing, she may be thinking of pleasures and pains in a biased way.
Totally misunderstanding what constitutes satire, she uses its guise to post a misogynistic rant to YouTube in the hopes of rage-clicks, and then hides behind the banner of "it's just some jokes!" Comedy is never "just" comedy.
As usual, she joined the PTA, where for most of the year she constituted one-third of the regular attendance.
Which was all well and good when she constituted one third of an eight episode series, but alone on centre stage – seemingly always dancing – she's just boring.
If she constituted a security threat anywhere it was in Africa, but even there, having eluded her hunters, she didn't do anything more than write another angry book about the situation.
