NomoreDramaQ1015
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 19, 2013 15:53:18 GMT -5
And Serena Williams is talking about this why? Don't they have enough fame? Why is it people pay attention to every dumb thing a celebrity says? Being good at tennis doesn't mean your opinion on this subject matters.
Just like I said before everyone and their mother is going to think they know the "real" truth no matter how much evidence there is and apparently even in the face of a conviction.
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Post by Pants on Jun 19, 2013 15:58:26 GMT -5
rae - my brother was like milee's son. He had ADHD, issues communicating, anger problems. He used to beat me up quite a bit (I'm older). I would honestly say he mellowed out when he was like 22. Probably an extreme case, but hey, look - there's hope for everyone!
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 19, 2013 16:06:38 GMT -5
We watch the news for a while, and the infamous Steubenville rape case flashes on the TV – two high school football players raped a drunk 16-year-old, while other students watched and texted details of the crime. Serena just shakes her head. "Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did something stupid, but I don't know. I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you: Don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky. Obviously, I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different." Read more: www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/serena-williams-the-great-one-20130618#ixzz2WhLsUf00 Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook This is the whole paragraph (hopefully it's allowed to paste it) from the Rolling Stones article.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 19, 2013 16:07:25 GMT -5
Years ago I started driving the babysitters home. Story went around that a babysitter told a man driving her home that he either paid big bucks or she'd ruin his reputation/marriage. Never knew if it was true or not but never took the chance after hearing that story. Just seemed safer for me to drive them home.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 19, 2013 16:08:14 GMT -5
Further proof that athletes aren't required to be smart in general.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 19, 2013 16:10:30 GMT -5
I wouldn't listen to anything a so-called athlete had to say about anything. I don't know where they get the idea that someone wants their thoughts about anything other than what they're known for? It's like so-called actors giving their political opinions. For real? Like you thinking you know what you're talking about is going to make me think better of you? Or that you're smart?
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 19, 2013 16:13:22 GMT -5
Zib- Yup- My husband told asked me to drive the babysitters home because he didn't want them to ever feel uncomfortable being driven home late at night by a grown man. I always picked the babysitters up and dropped them off.
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Post by raeoflyte on Jun 19, 2013 16:19:16 GMT -5
That doesn't make me feel better Bsb. I know ds can pull himself together, because for the right bribe he does, and so far he's never hit or tried to hurt dd. But I don't want to get into a cycle of too much bribery.
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Post by milee on Jun 19, 2013 16:22:23 GMT -5
Rae and Sheila, I'll be glad to go into more detail on my son, but don't want to derail this thread. I'll start a separate thread so this one can stay on topic.
Sorry to the OP for my derailing the thread earlier with the story about my son, got caught up responding to a question on why some kids hit other kids.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 20, 2013 19:49:06 GMT -5
Re: Things have changed: In the 90's my exH was reported to have been inappropriate with my daughter. She was in 1st grade I think, at the time and lived with her father. I called and asked if I could be at the hospital (I didn't ask to go in the room- just to be there afterward) for moral support for her, and was told absolutely not! I assumed from what I was told, that someone other than her father would be taking her for physical & psych evaluations. It turned out that her father took her for them, and they allowed him IN the room with her, as they did both the physical and the psychological evaluations! She sat on his lap as they asked her if he had ever done X,Y,Z! Of course she said no. Really?! I couldn't be there at all, but he can not only attend both, but hold her on his lap! Having been sexually abused myself as a kid, and knowing how manipulative her father is, I attempted suicide after finding this out. I felt so bad about not being able to protect her. I don't know that things are really so different these days..... I guess more people tell though, and that's good. But I think most people don't want to see, don't want to believe, don't want to know, and don't want to get involved. So they don't. If they don't see, hear or talk about it, it doesn't exist. Not in their world anyway. JMHO
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Post by taz157 on Jun 20, 2013 22:33:27 GMT -5
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 20, 2013 22:53:09 GMT -5
Ahh... Thanks Taz! I really wasn't looking for/wanting attention. I just didn't know how to post what I had to say, without owning it. Although it would truly suck, I kind of wish I were the only one it ever happened to. Then everyone else would have been safe. This is one time when I really can't say My misery loves your company! To everyone that such horrors were brought upon♥ I hope you now are at peace.
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