Yeah. Even if Goldie has some fault in this, that he is directing the bulk of his anger at his kids is pretty telling.

Exactly. Doesn’t matter if Billy feels aggrieved by Goldie, there’s simply no excuse possible for behaving this way toward his kids.

Fuck shitty dads, man. seriously. fuck em to hell.

I’m basing my support for them on the fact that he says they could have called him. Therein lies the hallmark of every narcissist father. If you’re the parent, you’re the one who picks up the phone, you’re the one who visits, you’re the one who is there.

Dude kills 9 people and we’re talking about a fucking flag.

Well said.

Taking down the flag takes away the illusion of state sponsored racism. Also, nobody is suggesting anything about doing nothing.

the debate was had. you lost. by a score of roughly Sherman’s March to the Atlantic to nil. your flag commemorates hatred, treason, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of americans in the name of preserving white supremacy. Dylann Roof waved it knowing that you and the entirety of South Carolina stood behind him…

tbh, I think this kind of thing is even worse than hitting your kids. When someone hits when they are angry, that is TERRIBLE but it shows poor impulse control. When you set up these humiliating situations and share them with the public, it takes some time and thought to execute, and that just shows a sadistic mind.…

I’m not putting all of the blame solely on the video but one would assume it perpetuated the situation. Even if she hadn’t committed suicide, I would still find her fathers actions atrocious and uncalled for.

Seriously! I got a bad haircut last night which is, fortunately, salvageable, but was inconsolable for hours, and could barely look in a mirror this morning.

You know what’s really gonna paint a target on a young woman? Getting all her hair chopped off. It would not surprise me if all the school bullies went around playing that video at her and generally treating her like shit. 13 is a very vulnerable age, where hormones and neurochemical changes make the smallest little…

My mom did that shit to me when I was a kid, on top of all sorts of other things. I’d come home to military school catalogs on the kitchen table. My heart breaks for this girl.

Dude. No.

I think you mean “when you’ve driven your kid to suicide”. He is not the same as a parent who lost a child to illness or accident.

An ex-coworker cut off her daughters long ponytail once for something ridiculous. It made me sick when she told me.

I just read through the comments section of the Tacoma Stories link and someone fairly close to the situation said that her father had threatened to put her up for adoption. If this is true, coupled with the hair cutting off incident, it paints a picture of an abuser who should be in jail.

Nope.

This kid was getting bullied in school, and then her own father bullies her by doing this shit? I’m sorry, but that man is, at BEST, indirectly responsible and at worst, directly.

I feel for her mother and what she must be going through. But her father? I’m finding I can’t muster a whole lot of give-a-fuck for…

Or how betrayed she would feel that her own father, a person who is supposed to love and protect her, would become a bully too? She must have felt like absolutely no one would support and protect her. How terribly sad.

If she was being bullied at school, it makes it so much worse that her own father would do this to her. Did it never occur to him that those same bullies would see this and use it against her? WTF!