Post: #1

A random story about internet addiction shows how women can even use their child sons for portraying themselves a victim of abuse and violence.

Quote:Experienced sailors, Barbara McVeigh and her husband exposed their children to the natural beauty near their home in Marin County, Calif. — boating, camping and adventuring in the great outdoors. None of this stopped her 9-year-old son from falling down the digital rabbit hole.

His first exposure to screens occurred in first grade at a highly regarded public school — named one of California’s “Distinguished Schools” — when he was encouraged to play edu-games after class. His contact with screens only increased during play dates where the majority of his friends played violent games on huge monitors in their suburban homes.

The results for Barbara’s son were horrific: Her sweet boy, who had a “big spirit” and loved animals, now only wanted to play inside on a device.

“He would refuse to do anything unless I would let him play his game,” she said. Barbara, who had discarded her TV 25 years ago, made the mistake of using the game as a bargaining tool.

Her son became increasingly explosive if she didn’t acquiesce. And then he got physical. It started with a push here, then a punch there. Frightened, she tried to take the device away. And that’s when it happened: “He beat the s–t out of me,” she told me.

When she tried to take his computer away, he attacked her “with a dazed look on his face — his eyes were not his.” She called the police. Shocked, they asked if the 9-year-old was on drugs.

http://nypost.com/2016/12/17/kids-turn-v...addiction/

The fact that she willingly gave out her name for the story means that she's marked her son as an "abuser of women." This will no doubt haunt him in the future. Though she mentioned having a "husband", he's not present in the story. I must conclude he's cucked to a full degree to allow his wife to call the cops on his own son.

Even more shameful is that she appears to trash her son publicly as an attempt to sell books and push her social justice agenda.

Quote:My name is Barbara McVeigh and I’m just another crazy human being who thinks the world can change for the better. The difference is I believe in magic and miracles because I have experienced them. I’ve got kids coming into the world and I care about one thing only – time to rethink climate change and get this world on a better track for the future of our children. Now.

I’m a fighter and I believe in making lemonade out of lemons, and maybe adding some vodka to make a good limoncello for life. Take the negative and make it positive so everyone can learn and be wiser and stronger.

My upcoming book is titled “Shifting Winds, A Voyage of Redemption” and my blog is the back story with fodder, ideas and observations as I move through life with a brand new lens. I hope to share and exchange with others ways to make this world a kinder and healthier place for the next generation.

https://barbaramcveigh.com/about/

Take note that if a woman can't find an adult male to accuse of violence, they will do it to their own sons.

Post: #2

The only abuse going on here is the child abuse by a mother who can't raise her son, offloads him onto a computer as the surrogate parent while she's playing "miracle-catcher" online, and complains when the neglected kid gets addicted.

Post: #3

No son would ever beat the shit out of his mother unless his upbringing was completed screwed up. At most a kid may struggle to keep that device from being taken away, and that would not be any sort of beating, except the kind his father should give him.

All in all, attention whore here, nothing to see. I'll continue with my life.

Post: #4

Guys above me are right about improper upbringing. But I want to point this out:

>Parents are "experienced sailors...boating, camping, adventuring in the great outdoors"
>kid gets hooked on phonics
>kid gets hooked on electronics

Apple doesn't fall too far from tree. Perhaps our lovely parents aren't the adventurers they say they are...

Even if they are, that's not the example they set for their kid when he got more addicted to the sceen.

Post: #5

Feminazis are already claiming that when an "oppressed" Western middle class woman indulges in sex with a minor, she is a victim of rape culture.

Don't believe me? The Teacher-student sex thread posted that a female teacher from the State of Arizona (where the AOC is set at 18 with limited protections for Romeo & Juliet clause) was acquitted after being accused of performing a blowjob on a 13-year-old male during a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

What was her defence? She was "raped" by the teenagers because she was "drunk", and therefore didn't "consent" to invitation to sexual touching & oral sex on a 13-year-old boy.

So it isn't surprising that empowered Western wommyns are now claiming that 9-year-old boys are able to "beat the shit" out of a grown woman as if they were husbands beating their wives.

Wait until you hear that same type of empowered woman in the news complaining that while she was "teaching consent" to her 3-year-old son by posing naked for him in the bathtub and letting him touch her "squishy bits", she was raped because she didn't consent to him using the finger that she let him penetrate her asshole, with into her vagina, because that is not her consent, thus it is "rape" according to feminazis in the West.

If you don't believe that feminazis and breastfeeding cam whores are not posing naked for toddlers, then you haven't read the Australian news lately. They support "mothers" who pose naked for their very underage sons to promote a feminazi cause.
Feminazis and empowered women are the sickest, filthiest and hypocritical people on this planet.

Post: #6

Ignoring the overly-dramatic women, the author (who is NOT the woman in the OP) brings up some good points.

Quote:I understand that initial response, but the research says otherwise. Over 200 peer-reviewed studies correlate excessive screen usage with a whole host of clinical disorders, including addiction. Recent brain-imaging research confirms that glowing screens affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that drugs like cocaine and heroin do.Thanks to research from the US military, we also know that screens and video games can literally affect the brain like digital morphine.

In a series of clinical experiments, a video game called “Snow World” served as an effective pain killer for burned military combat victims, who would normally be given large doses of morphine during their painful daily wound care. While the burn patient played the seemingly innocuous virtual reality game “Snow World” — where the player attempts to throw snowballs at cartoon penguins as they bounce around to Paul Simon music — they felt no pain.

I interviewed Lt. Sam Brown, one of the pilot participants in this research who had been injured by an IED in Afghanistan and who had sustained life-threatening third-degree burns over 30 percent of his body. When I asked him about his experience using a video game for pain management, he said: “I was a little bit skeptical. But honestly, I was willing to try anything.” When asked what it felt like compared to his morphine treatments, he said, “I was for sure feeling less pain than I was with the morphine.”

Sure enough, brain imaging research confirmed that burn patients who played “Snow World” experienced less pain in the parts of their brain associated with processing pain than those treated with actual morphine.

The Navy’s head of addiction research, Cmdr. Dr. Andrew Doan, calls screens “digital pharmakeia” (Greek for pharmaceuticals), a term he coined to explain the neurobiological effects produced by video technologies.

This is exactly what I was talking about in that other thread regarding children not needing iPads, etc. at such a young age. You're wiring their brain to be dependent on insane levels of dopamine and other mental stimulation.

There's a reason most of the big names in tech do NOT raise their children on technology.

Post: #7

Quote:“He would refuse to do anything unless I would let him play his game,” she said. Barbara, who had discarded her TV 25 years ago, made the mistake of using the game as a bargaining tool.

Single mother to the rescue (I say single because the father clearly was irrelevant, whether he was present or not).

"I just couldn't bear the thought of saying no to him. He might have cried."

Then when he becomes so spoiled that he has no problem kicking her ass: "I just don't understand how this happened?"

Fucking A, so many people should never parent children. Her son will probably grow into a real winner as well. Just an all around fail.

Post: #8

(12-19-2016 11:18 AM)The Man w/ the Golden Gun Wrote:  Guys above me are right about improper upbringing. But I want to point this out:

>Parents are "experienced sailors...boating, camping, adventuring in the great outdoors"
>kid gets hooked on phonics
>kid gets hooked on electronics

Apple doesn't fall too far from tree. Perhaps our lovely parents aren't the adventurers they say they are...

Even if they are, that's not the example they set for their kid when he got more addicted to the sceen.

Son of NTP?

Post: #9

I believe he'd be capable of it - my son was 5 and had been wrestling for only a few months when my wife decided it was a good idea to take him on...

Although she started on her knees so it wasn't exactly even, she was woefully unprepared for the storm that he unleashed on her, leading to the unfortunate situation where a 5 year old boy pinned his mother. There was no malice, no anger, just a boy on a mission.

Anyway, that must have led him to a realisation, as it was only a week or 2 later when my wife called me at work to say he was throwing a tanty and hitting her, and she couldn't control him. I came home, had a little chat to him, and he was back to being a well-behaved level headed boy within minutes. Haven't had any repeats of that situation, so I just hope that chat didn't turn him into too much of a white knight.

It was as if I needed more evidence that shielas are physically no match for males and simply don't know how to raise them. I won't ever doubt that again.

Post: #10

This is unforgivable. This is cognitive dissonance in action. Her mind can't accept her actions for what it is so she hamsters a sjw rationalisation to delude herself and others she is a selfless hero leading by example. What's most disturbing to me is how the state has replaced biological parents as the defacto guardian and decision maker when it comes to children. Parents are now reduced to bigger children that snitch on their own children to the state.

Post: #11

If she can still talk on the phone, he didn't do a good enough job.

Post: #12

I have no respect for anyone, male or female, who calls the cops on their own family (except in extreme situations). This may be because of my own experiences with my dad calling the cops on me when I was younger, but nevertheless, I think it's fucked up.

If you get the cops called on you, especially for "domestic violence" there are a number of very real, lifelong consequences that you can suffer. If you are convicted of domestic violence (even a misdemeanor) in the US, you can no longer own a firearm for the rest of your life. You definitely can't join the military. Employers can look up your record. These are not trivial consequences.

Plus, if your own family member (or husband or wife) is appealing to the authority of other men (who you don't even know) to come and physically overpower you and punish you, then how much can you really trust that person? How loyal are they to you?

I was with my wife in her country about a year ago, and we went out for dinner and ended up getting into a heated argument. At one point, she threatened to walk away from me and so I grabbed her hand and squeezed her wrist really tight on purpose (which was a bit violent on my part, I admit). She then threatened to report me to the cops (something which she had never said to me in 8 years of knowing her). Without hesitation, I told her to go report me if she wanted, and she backed off. A minute later, we walked by a police precinct, and I dared her to go in and report me. I swear to God, if she had taken so much one step towards that precinct, I would have divorced her on the spot and never spoken to her again. Luckily, she didn't.

I wouldn't report my own son to the cops even if he murdered somebody (unless the person he murdered was someone I cared about, then maybe I would). I don't see how so many people can be so quick to report their own family members to the cops, even when they legitimately committed crimes. I care about justice, but I care about my own family and friends more.

I was just talking about the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) in another thread. He actually got caught because his own (estranged) brother figured out it was him and reported him to police. I understand reporting your own brother in order to save the lives of future victims, but I would not do it without first making an extensive effort to contact him and persuade him to stop. I remember hearing an interview with the Unabomber's brother on TV, and he was talking about how he initially didn't want to report his brother, but that "justice needed to be served" and his brother "needed to pay for his crimes." I don't understand that kind of thinking when it comes to your own brother. Also, he said his wife convinced him to report his brother, which did not surprise me.

Post: #13

"Violent video games ruined my child"...

Whatever. If there were even a casual link between video game violence and real world assault then all civilisation would have devolved into gang warfare a decade ago.

Add it to the long list of shit that post-boomer parents blame other than their shitty parenting for the terrible outcomes of their children.

Post: #14

(12-23-2016 04:44 AM)Rob Banks Wrote:  I wouldn't report my own son to the cops even if he murdered somebody (unless the person he murdered was someone I cared about, then maybe I would). I don't see how so many people can be so quick to report their own family members to the cops, even when they legitimately committed crimes. I care about justice, but I care about my own family and friends more.

This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro

Post: #15

Sounds like it's just bringing her name out to sell her book. "Oh woe is me! My son was angry and beat me up. By the way I'm writing a book."

Victimhood sales pitch.

Post: #16

Post: #17

Instead of the story being about how this woman is an unfit mother who stabs her own family in the back to attention-whore on the internet, the media spins it into:

"Look at how the evil internet is ruining kids"

So it's just another version of the standard litany: women are accountable for nothing, NOTHING, in American society.

Sell out your family? "We need to give her love and understanding"

Murder your kids? "We need to understand the reasons for her behavior"

Commit crimes? "She was pushed into it by the patriarchy"

Become addicted to drugs? "Her husband introduced her to gateway drugs"

It just never stops.

Post: #18

^ There comes a point where one has to wonder what a woman would have to do to actually be held accountable for her actions. Just how far can they go without proper reprisal?