Well, Ogre did, since (s)he asked :rolleyes:
And, for the record, it’s really not all that backwater. Unless, of course, you think we were running around in some grass hut, wearing loincloths and hunting lions and zebras for food.
None that I know of.
And, no, I don’t do videos. Sorry (not really).
You know as well as I do that a picture wouldn’t prove anything. Also even on the offchance you were actually black, I still think you’re 95% fake, I think being black is one of the many faked aspects of an exaggerated and fabricated troll persona.
I read this thread earlier today. Got to see the interview between Hillary and Matt Lauer.
That dude is a piece of shit. Fuck me, he’s damaged. I know me posting about it on the interwebs means nothing.
But, my 2 YO daughter is probably a bit confused right now. Normally, I read her three stories and put her to bed while she asks for more. Tonight, I read to her as much as she wanted. She made it through 7 books before falling asleep in my lap. I had to just snuggle her a little extra before putting her to bed.
I’m just amazed that someone can do that to their little girl. Fuck him. Anyone who defends or minimizes his actions baffle me. I just don’t understand how anyone can be so heartless.
This means that although you said you are willing to prove you are black, you are not in fact willing to prove you are black.
I did not suspect you on this count before, but now, due to this mismatch between stated willingness and actual willingness, I officially wonder.
Jesus Christ, what the fuck did Matt Lauer do to her? Is there a link to a transcript?
You’re such a badass swoon. Can I have your babies please ?
OF COURSE THE FAMILY DYNAMICS ARE A LITTLE WONKY, YOU FUCKING IDIOT! HE IS A GODDAMN CHILD ABUSER!!
I mean, for fuck’s sake!
It literally breaks my heart, knowing you work with kids every day. You are not right in the head. And I mean that in all seriousness. You really do need therapy. I don’t know what happened to you to make you such a fruitcake, but quit spreading your issues all over the next generation. I’ve been watching your goofy ass on here for awhile, and hon, you need help.
You mean a dated picture to rogerbox wouldn’t prove my realness? Weird. But, if you must know, contrary to what you’d like to believe, yes, I’m actually, really real. What? You think I have to follow some premodeled “This-is-what-a-Black-person” is script? I beg to differ.
Naw, it means I’m willing to do a picture, but not a video. I don’t do videos. Well, except for one, but that was for a friend*.
That depends. Are you hot?
Don’t believe I said anything about it being okay to brutalize anyone. Of course, you apparently have a different meaning for the word ‘brutalize’ than I do, so there’s really no point in going down that road. Anyway, as I said earlier, I don’t see much of the reason for the outrage. I’ve seen and personally gotten worse. I don’t find being belted on your clothes is really the worst thing to ever happen to a kid.
Beat her ass with a belt while threatening to “beat her in the fucking face”. Don’t fall for the innocent look face. Dude’s a predator!
You mean, a picture with a date you could have your actual black friend take for you? No, that proves nothing and since you’re wrong on absolutely everything but I don’t think you’re a TOTAL idiot, you know this and you’re even trolling NOW as we discuss your trolling.
LOL your shtick is so predictable. I knew for a fact you would say that somehow my mind was blown because you’re such a unique flower, being black and being conservative. :rolleyes:
It’s the trollishness of your name as if we care or are shocked at the concept of OMG a BLACK person that is CONSERVATIVE ( :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ) and your idiotic race-baiting, imo you are another crypto freeper who gets his jollies pretending to be something they are not on the internet for kicks.
The standard for raising our children should not be avoiding the worst we can do to them but striving to do the best by them.
Well! If it isn’t the worst thing to ever happen to a kid, then, let’s all just move on! Nothing to see here folks! We’re only allowed to be concerned if it’s the worst thing to ever happen to a kid. Otherwise… meh.
You know, I’ve been thinking…
a number of years ago, I was a research associate for a long-term project in which we monitored the recovery process of people who’d been diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. We interviewed people every six months about how they were doing, and also gathered data (with their permission, of course) from medical records, family members, etc. The interviews involved surveys designed to measure their levels of symptomology, functioning, insight, other factors.
Built into the project was a scheduled re-training every six months, so that we’d get re-normed (re-reminded, really) on how to fill out the surveys. Because we’d start to fill them out based on not how the people we were interviewing compared to people without the disorders, but based on how they compared to other people WITH the disorder.
Which completely threw off the data. Because of one person was “only” hallucinating demon voices commanding them to kill themselves once a day, they clearly were doing GREAT compared to a person who was hallucinating constantly. Which is completely different from how they were doing compared to someone without the disorder who did not hallucinate demon voices ever.
I guess this is my clumsy way of saying - this is abuse to those of us without abuse in our histories, and those of us who have insight into how abuse works, and into our own abuse histories. For some people, however, it may not be abuse because in comparison to something else, it’s just not “that bad.”
This may’ve been mentioned somewhere in the middle of this monster thread, but I’m not looking.
What caught my attention is the mom blathering something about agreeing with him that the daughter was not mature enough for something… then screaming at her to lay on her belly and take it like a 16 year old woman!
There is not a WTF big enough to cover it.
Did he set fire to her? Did he hobble her, a la Misery? Did he throw acid in her face?
No?
So what’s to discuss?
Eh, I ducked out of this thread, but look what just popped up on my newsfeed:
This is what I meant about wonky family dynamics. I never said the girl deserved the beating. Kids should never get hit. But I won’t judge his entire parenting career from birth to 18 on that video. That’s 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours and 52 minutes I don’t know about. It sounds like he’s still providing for her now.
Did you watch that video? More importantly, did you grasp what was happening there? That lass was being thrashed by a brute. Sucks for you having being beasted by your parents, but fuck right off if you think that is normal. I hope you get better.
Well, that changes everything!
Or not. I don’t give a shit what may (or may not) have motivated the video being posted. Because unlike some sick fucks, I’m not looking to excuse his behaviour.
ETA: Directed at CP.
Ah, so you’re continuing with your tactic to call her a liar, and assume that the video is a happily coincidental videotaping of the only physically violent episode in the history of the family.
One the one hand, we’ve got the daughter and the mother claiming years of abuse, and a video of what normal people clearly label as physical abuse.
On the other hand, we’ve got the alleged abuser doing what abusers do, denying that it was “that bad,” and making excuses for his behavior.
On the third hand, we have people like you, with an admitted history of an abusive family, claiming that the the family dynamics are “wonky” while downplaying the physical violence that might contribute to that wonkiness, and insisting that the abuse is not a big deal.
Yeeahhh…I think I’ll go with Occam’s razor on this one.
Well… I’m not trying to attack or diagnose anybody here, but there’s maybe something to be said about the fact that the people who are downplaying the beating seem to fall into two camps, or a combination of the two: “Come on, kids are assholes. Sometimes you just want to fucking devastate their resistance with overwhelming force. That’s normal, right?” and “Come on, I got beaten worse than that, and I’m normal, right?”
The idea that this is considered unacceptable behavior probably has some uncomfortable implications about victimization in both directions.