Most orthodox women are not spending 4000-7000 on a dress. The vast majority of orthodox women are getting gowns through community gemachs. A gemach is a free or low cost rental ($250). Most modest gowns are easily modified and rebuilt. In communities where there sometimes 3 or 4 weddings a nights within the…

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 was shocked how many commenters here loved that video of the dad shooting his daughter’s laptop after going on a 5 minute screed about how awful she is. That shit was twisted and violent.

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…

Interestingly, it's also what Germans did to women who slept with Allied troops (particularly soldiers of color) after WWII.

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.

Yep, did not watch out of respect. Grisly and disgusting.

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.

People don’t have to look. I didn’t. Hopefully it will make another parent think twice.

I think you know perfectly well that’s not what i’m saying. Criticize in private and praise in public. I guess that could also be twisted around. Have fun!

In today’s world publicly shaming your own child will almost always lead to bullying.

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.

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.

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.

Exactly. A bullied child needs their home to be a safe space where they are loved and supported, otherwise they feel like they have nothing and no one.

To be fair to that piece of shit, he probably didn’t even know. 13 years old don’t really talk to their parents about anything.

I’m sure she “messed up” by having sex or smoking a joint with some friends, and good ol’ dad handled it like the child he is. Now he get to live with the fact that his immaturity drove his own kid to suicide.

I was a Greek Adviser at a Southern university. As a Yankee, the racism on campus was shocking...and not just in the Greek System. I was constantly challenging the students. but it was a losing battle. I couldn’t wait to boogie on back up North.

If they’d had a black member of the frat, he would most certainly have been hazed using the racial slurs the frat was very comfortable throwing out, and that news would certainly have gotten back to University officials, likely resulting in the suspension or expulsion of the fraternity from the college.

Our alumni threatened to withdraw support because we had to many gay men in our fraternity, and we wanted to do a Drag Show fundraiser.