Amy Chua, known as the relentless “Tiger Mom,” is a law professor at Yale. There she and her husband are now at the center of a scandal involving alleged alcohol excesses and sexual assault.
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Mareen Linnartz
She has now retired to her New Haven, Connecticut mansion and feels misunderstood. The house is a stone fortress with gables, turrets, oriels, arched windows in Tudor style, an idiosyncratic to ugly imitation of past architecture. She recently signed up for the new York– Have the magazine photographed in front of it. The picture shows a petite woman in a bright red short dress who is standing with her legs apart and right and left respectively keeping a white fluffy dog on a short leash. It is unclear what message Amy Chua was trying to send to the world she was currently perceiving as hostile: Here you see a woman who does not knock anything down so quickly? Who has the reins firmly in hand even with her pets? Or which is better not to get too close?