Because you are drastically altering their appearance against their wishes, and badly. And then forcing that child to go out into public like that. So you are publicly shaming her even without putting it out on YouTube.

On what planet? Children are not a parent’s property. The father committed assault.

WHAT? No. That is NOT reasonable. Do NOT have kids.

Exactly: This story may be different in degree from “honor-killing” or the public stoning of a woman but it’s fairly similar in kind.

Under what circumstances would be cutting off a 13 year old girl’s hair be perfectly reasonable?

I don’t agree there’s really any situation where cutting a 13 year old girl’s hair against her will is reasonable. That’s a major violation of someone’s bodily integrity.

In what world is that reasonable? It is an act intended to humiliate someone. No one should intentionally humiliate their children. If you think this is reasonable discipline, I hope you aren’t responsible for any children.

Unless dad is a barber, no, he has no reason to touch her hair. She’s 13, that’s old enough for a child to decide their own hairstyle. This was done to abuse and humiliate her, even before he uploaded it to youtube. I’m glad there’s attention on him now and I hope he gets punished by our judicial system. He won’t…

Excuse me, but in what event would it be acceptable to commit simple assault or potentially battery (google it) on a kid because they didn’t listen?

GoForSoda?! Imbecile, party of one? Your table is ready.

You need to take a walk, maybe go for a soda, think about what you’ve said.

no.

Please describe scenarios (other than chewing gum in hair, which this obviously wasn’t) where drastically chopping off the kid’s hair in a garage might have been “perfectly reasonable”. Really, I’m fascinated to hear.

Restrictions, early curfews, loss of other privileges- nah, those things aren’t swaggeringly fun for me to film myself doing to my child.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

I'm right there with you. The posting of the video is bad enough but there's something about the haircuttng that's really perverse and sinister. The poor child.

Chopping off her hair. What kind of fucking medieval punishment is this? That’s what they did to women who slept with Germans during the French occupation. Getting drunk or whatever doesn’t warrant this hateful treatment. This is horrid.

Dear right wing dingleberries that think this award is about statistically who is the most courageous person in sports,

I’ve lost a whole handful of “friends” now because I posted about this very thing. I posted:

Uninformed idiots on social media also report that Galloway was the runner up for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.