Darth Fanboy wrote:I am sorry for your past experiences, however one of your parents being a liar does not make all other people's parents liars. This guy has been under such media scrutiny I doubt that any actual abuse is going to go hidden for long, and if this girl really wanted to I'm sure she could find a way to get that message across. Also note that the video references the fact that the girl disrespected her mother and stepmother, so there is a family dynamic there where the divorced/unmarried parents agree on this. I can't imagine in that scenario one parent would cover up the abuse by the other.
While I, of course, do not think that all parents are liars (now that would just be silly), I am not going to take this guy's word as full gospel either. I held off on accusing him of abuse for a reason. But I doubt that him and his daughter's relationship has been healthy for a
long time. Him going 8-bullets on a laptop out of complete rage on the Internet is enough to make me think that he is not the most mentally sound of people, and as the only one with a voice in this he has all the room to stretch a truth here or there.
Do you realize what you just wrote? They posted their comments in the SAME PLACE, on a specific facebook wall. The same number of people have access to both. You are basically condemning him for doing the same thing she had already done at least twice, and the only thing he is really guilty of his doing something catchier.
He
posted the video on his wall, while according to the story she posted her rant on her own wall. Where are you getting this "posting in the same specific place" from?
Translation: "Well, because I can't find any statements to support my position out there, i'll just toss out a theory that I think might be true but really has litte to no basis in reality."
Yeah, let's not try to think about this too much. That would be hard!
Put yourself in her position. Your father just decided to make a display and shoot a laptop for everyone to see, as an example to you.
Shoot a laptop. He used a gun to drive his point across. Are you really going to, as a 15-year old, ignore that detail? Seriously?
This is how children grow up with screwed-up thoughts.
And before you stretch this and say "no he's not going to point a gun and shoot his daughter", no, I don't believe he is stupid enough to actually do that. But that is me being charitable. The image of this example being stuck in her mind, though, is a real possibility. As is the fear that would generate. And he wants to try to fix a broken relationship with this Yosemite Sam solution?
Yes because shooting inanimate objects is clearly the sign of a tough guy.
It is, because there are many other actually
civil and more
effective ways in which he could have handled this, as many people in this thread have mentioned. And I'm sure that he isn't the only parent in the world who has had a mouthy, rebellious teen. But he chose to use a gun, on YouTube. You read the subtext here.
I myself don't care if he was raised in a "tough love" life either. Actually, I rewatched that video: "lived on my own, worked two jobs, was a volunteer fireman, attended college
while in high school"... Wow, what a detail I missed.
I have
known people in situations like that, and even I find half of this hard to believe. I can believe that he lived on his own, worked in two jobs, and went to high school all at once. But also working as a
volunteer fireman and taking
college classes at the same time? Are you fucking
joking me? That kind of super-exaggeration sounds all too familiar to me.
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Oh and for the record, I'm 25 years old. Glad I got that out of the way, otherwise I would probably have my arguments invalidated because I'm a spoiled teenage brat.
