Question about this story that WFAA broke on Friday about Erika Perdue of University Park, busted for allegedly having so much child porn on her computer that she had trouble keeping track of it all.
Channel 8’s online headline says “University Park socialite allegedly involved in child porn.”  The descriptor  “socialite” seems to be used solely because the women lives in a $1.4 million house (a “mansion,” according to the report) in the Park Cities.
This story, because of the rarity of women being charged with distributing child pornography, has taken off across the world-wide echo chamber.  And so CBS, Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, the New York Daily News, ABC News, among others, also are repeating the term.
So what’s a “socialite?” Just a synonym for “rich housewife?”
