Fair enough.
All the best to her. Not to her dad. I’m outta here.
This may or may not be true. There may be pressure for her dad to try to reduce the political fallout. Also since potential Republican/LGBQ angle is the main thing that keeps this in the news, categorically rejecting that scenario is probably the best way for her to try to claw back some privacy, But whether or not this is actually the case she deserves her privacy and we should take her at her word.
While I have nothing against his daughter and hope she recovers from whatever she’s suffering from, if you voluntarily put yourself in the spotlight and publicly talk about everyone else’s private life, you don’t get to say leave my private life alone. Ted is, at best, a hypocrite and is disliked by just about everyone in Congress. I feel for his kids having to be his kids, but it’s not like they had a choice.
I have a daughter who has had mental health issues. She has attempted to self-harm. It’s an awful thing to go through. I also attempted when I was younger. It’s a terrible thing from both sides. I don’t wish this kind of thing on anyone. Not even Ted Cruz. Even he doesn’t deserve it. Certainly his kids don’t.
I’ll also say that my daughter has questioned her sexuality in the past and I have done everything I can to try to make sure she knows I support her in whatever, and I just want her to be happy. That’s not necessarily related to any of her self-harming though.
These things are complicated, and I wouldn’t trust the media to get it all correct or even part of it. And even though he’s a public figure this is his family’s personal stuff to work out.
I’ll agree that this should be a teachable moment for him to allow other families the privacy to work out their personal stuff.
But, as long as he is insisting on invading the privacy of other families, it’s hard to respect his.
My opinion is, feel free to shit on him all you want.
Probably have as much effect on the RW crowd as Mary Cheney did…
When did Ted Cruz’ daughter do this?
Do you mean put yourself in the spotlight? I was talking about her father.
Yesterday Ted Cruz’s daughter put herself in the public spotlight and publically talked about everyone else’s private life?
I was talking about Ted. He is asking everyone not to talk about it, not his daughter.
Ted’s daughter is not a growth on Ted’s face that we can point at and laugh. She’s a separate person, and her privacy should be respected, no matter how much a choad Ted is.
If Ted were a half-way decent human being, I would agree with you. I said I didn’t wish his daughter ill and hoped she got the help she needed. There, I talked about her, does that make me evil?
How on earth does the decency of one’s father affect one’s own right to privacy? Will there be any point in her life where her own privacy rights will matter?
Fine, I’ll respect her privacy and never talk about it again… as long as nobody else ever speaks about it again… ever.
When that father has the inclination and the power to void the privacy of other families, I feel far less compelled to respect his.
Sure, up until the time that she comes up against one of the laws that her father championed that removes the privacy rights of families.
What I see being said in this thread is not that she shouldn’t have a right to privacy. What is being said in this thread is that Cruz should take this as a lesson to respect the privacy of other families. What is being said is that he is a hypocrite to demand privacy for his family while he uses the law to pry open the privacy of others.
What I see happening in this thread is people not giving a shit about the privacy of a young girl because they’re too eager to score points on her dad.
Who has violated her privacy?
What do you consider to be a violation of privacy, and is there an actual example of it in this thread?
All I’ve seen is well wishes for the daughter, and hope that it is a teachable moment for her father.
Calling Cruz a hypocrite for demanding privacy for his family while he violates the privacy of families around the country is not a violation of his daughter’s privacy.
I just want to point out that we don’t know what that means. Self-harm can have many different causes and manifestations. “Cutting” isn’t the same thing as attempting suicide, for instance. Any form of self-harm is bad, of course, but they’re bad in different ways, with different treatments, different causes, and different prospects.
You should met some 14-year-olds sometime.