cwicseolfor:theliz13:bigbabeenergy:biglawbear:internetdumpsterfires:Your daughter is talking to a bo
cwicseolfor:theliz13:bigbabeenergy:biglawbear:internetdumpsterfires:Your daughter is talking to a boy? Time to start destroying school property with a firearm!This has so many things that just… Encapsulate America so well1) sexism2) irrational love of firearms3) disrespecting public schools4) child abusePublishing shit like this on the internet SHOULD be an immediate red flag to indicate child services need to be involved. Physically DESTROYING something a child cares about, to send a MESSAGE, and then BRAGGING about said behavior in order to shame the child publicly?THAT. IS. ABUSE.It’s a direct threat of violence, and anyone who would lose their temper and SHOOT a computer that didn’t even BELONG to them should not even BE around children.And I don’t even want to HEAR anyone coming at me with “gun owners rights” or “fathers rights” as some weak bullshit defense. If you OWN a gun, you use it RESPONSIBLY. You DO NOT fire a weapon while pissed off or drunk, or you don’t DESERVE to own one.And if you want to say, “hey, maybe there is more to this story…” SURE there is. Either she was messaging a boy about school work and her Dad lost his shit. Or she was messaging boys socially, and her Dad lost his shit. COULD be that she’s trying to get a support network outside of an abusive home, and her Dad is losing his shit because -his- girl isn’t doing what -he- tells her to, and the mere idea of her gaining any kind of joy or potential autonomy through another person -without his consent- makes him flip his shit.But please, do tell, how is that in any way shape or form a home that is safe for children? If you can, I don’t want any kids around you either.This is a fantasy about violence. This is a threat of violence. This is what fragility looks like in men: paranoia to the extent of lashing out at imagined enemies, inability to tolerate a natural and healthy* change in power dynamics, responding to something found distasteful with violence in an attempt to terrorize others into compliance rather than communicate in any way suggestive of recognition of shared humanity. (I say healthy not to say that unauthorized possession of a school computer is healthy, but because I can promise that she doesn’t have a phone or she wouldn’t have tried to smuggle a whole computer: this is almost certainly her only line out, and if she’s old enough to “talk to boys” a desire to interact with anyone other than her sociopath of a father is the healthiest thing she could manifest. This is definitely not his debut with the batshit murder-vibes.)I see a girl who will have no contact with her father once she comes of age and escapes, who will suffer for a lack of social support but far less than by this hostage-taking of her dear ones by her parent. I see a man who is a danger to the public, who blames his childishness on his child and boasts of his ability to pull a trigger unthinkingly - I want to point out that his grouping isn’t much to brag on, less as a joke and more to underscore a fundamental and persistent lack of control, that this was a clearly-premeditated act but still utterly recklessly executed: he had a chance to think twice but instead elected to foam himself up all over again, then tripled down by documenting and trumpeting his aggression online. Far from concern that he went too far, he feels assured of support, and he’s not making that conjecture blindly. I say this because going into the comments I see the society that writes him a blank check for excuses, because he is a man, while a literal child is expected to exhibit self-control her parent clearly can’t manifest. None of this is innate or inevitable. Not his sense of ownership over another living person or their property or school property, not this turning to violence at the first sign of independence from a child growing up, not the responses of acceptance for a man imposing a scarcely veiled threat on his daughter for behaving like a normal teen would - that is, seeking connections to people who don’t pull out a lethal weapon and look for something to destroy with it the moment they’re uncomfortable. Every bit of this is a failure of society to demand better from men. -- source link