you don’t need to read someone’s mind to understand psychology. obviously all victims react differently to their abuses. some push past it and find a path to forgiveness, while for others it haunts them. sometimes victims don’t feel the effects for years or decades even. if these girls truly found a way to push past…

JimBob Duggar reccommends her post.

he’s still a fucking fox.

The best part is that she says she designed and sewed it herself. That's some serious committment to sparkle motion. God, I want one for the hilarity factor alone.

You forget how young he was. And then you remember how young you were. And then you cry.

This makes me feel like crying. I want to hug her 5-year-old self and carry her away from that family. They really failed those girls, and continue to do so. :(

trauma and abuse clouds judgement and rational thought.

There is a 99% chance that her father, husband, and father-in-law have more to do with Jessa Duggar’s words than Jessa Duggar does. I hope to hell some of these girls break free because of this.

Great speech— those one-off gags were a scream— and it was peppered with just the right amount of serious/grateful. Very eloquent. Her point about the simple dignity of not being asked to clown around with a plastic dick, for a change, was even a tad poignant.

Yes yes yes! Oh man I would pull teeth (the good ones) to see a collaboration...

This brought tears. I have always been uncomfortable with the much-lauded trend toward public shaming of kids (taking a shotgun to their computer, mowing over their video games, forcing them to stand with a poster board proclaiming their sins), and this is why. There’s always been a clear (to me) motivation of having…

We really need to stop putting everything on the internet. Stop filming your kids drugged up after surgery and laughing at them, stop posting shaming videos. Stop putting every second of your life on the internet. Reprimanding your child doesn’t belong online. This girl felt she couldn’t trust or be welcome among her…

No, no, you’re conflating queer liberal molestation with good old-fashioned American conservative Christian molestation. Well okay, in both cases it’s always the girls’ fault, but the right men are pre-forgiven. The girls don’don’t even have to be told.

And how is the standard for the culpability of child molestation based on how traumatized the victim is? So we can forgive child molestation if the victim really isn’t affected?! Wtf. Also, if something like this occurred in a family like the kardashians the people defending the duggars would be the first out for…

These parents who use humiliation and ridicule to discipline their children are not good parents

Those public shaming videos are ridiculous. What do you want, parent? A medal for punishing your kid? My praise for doing what you’re supposed to do? “This is how it’s done, America. Watch me be an incredible concerned parent AND LEARN.”

Oh my god. For anyone that thinks that hair cutting is not cruel, my mom force cut my hair when I was 10 and it wasn’t until I was in my 30s and had therapy that I could handle having it cut again.

Public shaming is never good. Especially if done on the internet.

Yeah, this distresses me more than anything so far. Not to mention, even if she truly is totally fine with it, there were four other victims. One of whom has gone on record stating she feels (felt?) uncomfortable around Josh. I really don’t think you can go, “Well, one of the victims is a-ok with it, so it was no big…

And horrifying that she’s being forced to do it on national television.