This is a mess... corporal punishment is assault plain and simple... I’m going to be brutally honest... the West Indian in me laughed at the title before I read the article, and that is part of the problem. We as a culture are too desensitized to this type of violence as it relates to children. If we didn’t experience …

The system really give no fucks about black children. The baby came back from school with whelts and CPS refuses to pay. I hope his parents find a way to get him out of there.

Gibbens responded, “And so she’s uncomfortable for something she voluntarily went to, voluntarily took her top off of, and was paid for?”

BINGO! Kids that age don’t naturally gravitate to this behavior without having been groomed for it. Sickening.

This judge has raped/molested women/girls, I fucking guarantee it. At an absolute minimum, there have been date rape. Men who understand consent AND GET CONSENT don’t say things like this.

It’s amazing to me that adults are often treated with less agency than kids.

For the longest time, a good two decades after my teacher molester was convicted of raping me daily for two years, I had feelings of fault so ingrained in my psyche, that the self-abuse track I was on nearly ended my life.

Wasn’t he also on that short-lived BET soap opera too?

Utterly sad by this story, my thoughts are with his daughters Lola and Paris as well as his fiancee Kseniya, this is her http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/tv/kristoff-st-johns-girlfriend-kseniya-mikhaleva/

He came over as a kid. I am guessing with parents. He must have qualified for DACA at some point.. But local news said he had a felony drug conviction in 2014 which would have put him in ICE’s crosshairs.

This makes me sad. Can’t he explore off-camera? Let the child breathe without all the eyes and judgements of the world upon them. 

Good on him for exploring his self image, but he’s registering at much the same level of annoyance as theatre kids. (Disclaimer: I come from a family of “theatre people” so I know how grating it can get.)

I don’t know what to make of this. I’m side-eyeing the parents about this as hard as I did when my sister in law and her husband said Blurred Lines was their two year old daughter’s favorite song and played it for her all the time. Be yourself, kid. But- just as importantly- be a kid.

Yes, my first thought was, “why is this kid allowed to read hate comments on his videos? Why aren’t the adults in his life protecting him from exposure to verbal abuse?” I’m old so maybe I just don’t understand the whole ‘tiny children as social media influencers’ phenomenon, but it makes me nervous how exposed a lot…

had to watch the video of him at pride because i hadn’t heard of him. it’s funny that 100% of the comments are homophobic when they’re the ones who clicked on a video titled “NYC GAY PRIDE PARADE: 8 year old boy struts and twirls for homosexuality”. you’d think that people who hate the queer community would not…

I have to say, I scrolled through the Facebook page a “family friend” created and, much like beauty pageants, I was uncomfortable with how sexualized he appears in many of the photos. Even if that’s how he acts without being pushed, there’s no need to put this stuff up on the Internet. The bullying is a real concern…

I don’t posting videos is safe for this child. He’s too young to be on the Internet and being exposed to Internet bullies. I think he’s adorable, but there are some really crappy people out there and he should be protected.

Please don’t enable this. He’s being pushed by his parents and the alt-right is claiming that he’s being ‘sexualized’ by the LGBTQ agenda. It’s bad all around. 

1. Fuck those doctors.

I remember my sister going to three different doctors when she had knee pain. She kept getting dismissed and told to take Tylenol. The third doctor found she had a torn ACL and said she might have permanent damage since it wasn’t treated right away. The doctor also said “I’ve had professional athletes unable to speak…