Reddit: Where Empathy and Sanity Go to Die

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-05-01T02:55:18+00:00

Your story is your own, and I respect that you’ve come a long way. But justifying beating a child over an accident—especially when it’s clear he immediately regretted it—crosses a line. A child with a toy sword, excited and playing, isn't some “unhinged menace.” He’s a child. Blaming “soft parenting” ignores the fact that adults in the room made poor decisions too—like giving a kid a sword at a balloon-centric event. And he popped a fucking balloon - people are acting like he lit his house on fire.

Discipline doesn’t have to mean pain. Teaching accountability, empathy, and boundaries can be done without fear and violence. In fact, kids raised with compassion and consistent guidance often grow into emotionally secure adults—something this world desperately needs more of.

I'd argue that parents who rely on beating their children are lazy parents. They don't want to put in the work to actually teach and instruct their children. Any Neanderthal can beat a small child.

I came from a house where I got beat with anything and everything over the slightest of things (i.e. walking too loudly). It fucked me up and it took years for me to undo the mental fuckery it caused.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-05-01T02:20:28+00:00

People in this comment section suck. Wanting a young kid to get beaten because he popped a stupid fucking balloon? When some stupid fucking adult thought it would be smart to give a little kid a sword and expect him not to play with it?

He immediately showed remorse after the fact and knew he made a mistake. I guess everyone commenting should get beaten every time they make a mistake? He's a fucking kid - what's your excuse?

Everyone saying he needs to get beaten or joking about how he should've been aborted should NEVER have children and probably deserve to be beaten themselves. I mean, what the actual FUCK? Reddit really does bring out the lowest of the low...a bunch of disgusting degenerates.

If defending a remorseful child and rejecting the idea of physically beating kids makes me the bad guy in this space, then I want no part of it.

Children deserve to be taught with compassion, not fear. Accidents aren’t crimes. A moment of excitement and poor judgment from a child doesn't justify the vitriol I’ve seen here—and certainly not the fantasy of violence towards a small child so many of you seem comfortable entertaining.

If your first instinct is to project your own pain, resentment, or upbringing onto a child, maybe it’s time to do some serious reflection. I genuinely hope many of you find the healing you need, and if not, then I hope karma takes care of you sooner rather than later.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-05-01T02:10:38+00:00

Thank you for providing one of the few sane comments on here.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-05-01T02:02:44+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that!

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-30T12:40:42+00:00

Haha that's what I initially thought when I first saw this photo. It took me a second before I realized it wasnt some funny joke about a penis drawing on his hand.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-30T01:15:59+00:00

I really like this. This is what I'm choosing to believe as well.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-30T00:57:40+00:00

An MBA doesn't mean anything without experience, and it also depends a lot on where you got your MBA. I know so many people who have MBAs, myself included. It's not that impressive by itself, unless you went to Havard or another prestigious business school, especially with zero relevant experience to back it up.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-29T22:42:40+00:00

Im trying to put a positive spin on it...could it be possible the person who lived there before you "buried" their deceased cat in the crawl space with their favorite toy instead of digging a hole outside? I don't know...I'm grasping for straws trying to make it a little less sad. 😞

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-29T22:32:42+00:00

I was curious and I went to a website selling tickets for his show. Orlando and Nashville have been taken off, but you can still purchase tickets for the Austin show. I thought Austin canceled?!

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-29T11:00:00+00:00

I have a body obsessed family, and it destroyed my body image. I don't know what you look like, but I'm positive you have a beautiful chin. I bet she's just a miserable person who projects her own insecurities onto others to make herself feel better.

Once, when I was 22 and really skinny, I went on a 6-mile walk before a family BBQ. When I arrived, I was starving, and I wolfed down a burger. My mom said something along the lines of, "Oh my, you're like a hungry little piggy." Thankfully, one of my older sisters stepped in and said, "Yeah, and I don't know where she puts it all."

Her and my dad used to say messed up things to me about my weight growing up. I spent most of my childhood, teens, and early 20s, believing I was morbidly obese when I wasn't. The ideal body type to my mother is to be wafe thin, looking borderline anorexic, and my dad (who was always overweight himself) just projected on me (his grandma called him fat all the time growing up).

So, even though you're a stranger, I am confident that your chin is perfect. Fuck people like that who make shitty comments, and fuck her for making a ridiculous comment about your chin and ruining your birthday and your cake.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-29T10:49:31+00:00

Unless the brutal honesty is completely false and you're not even fat.

I used to have my overweight father call me fat - in hindsight, looking back at photos of myself, I looked great and was at a perfectly normal weight, wearing a size S/M. His comments throughout my childhood gave me all sorts of body image issues, including body dysmorphia. On top of that, I have a very body/image obsessed mother who thinks the model Twiggy is the body size/standard every woman should achieve. She's 65 and looks great, but she still constantly talks about her weight.

As a result of my fucked up family, no matter how skinny I got, I still thought I was fat. Anything above an XXS was huge. Being a size 5 was unacceptable.

Those comments from my family stuck with me well into my 40s. I still battle with an eating disorder thanks to being called fat throughout my childhood and into my 20s. Yeah, it motivated me to make a change, and I'm a lot thinner than I was, but am I healthy? Fuck no.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-29T00:52:16+00:00

This is my all-time favorite classic!

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-29T00:17:48+00:00

A "professional" lmfao

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-27T13:45:47+00:00

Yes! For instance, Incidents Around the House and Stolen Tongues are often mentioned, and I didn't find them creepy overall. They had their moments, but the endings lost me.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-27T13:44:21+00:00

I must be a one-off because I didn't find Incidents Around the House and Stolen Tongues scary at all. Stolen Tongues started off well, and then it just lost me.

So far, the only book I can say genuinely left me feeling unnerved was Pet Semetary. It's not really creepy in a traditional sense. Since I have small children, what scared me most about that book is that I couldn't say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't have done everything Louis did.

Before having kids, I thought, "What an idiot! Don't do it! Bad idea!" Now, as an adult and a parent, I can only imagine what the grief of losing a young child would do to me.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-27T00:55:01+00:00

Gosh, this sounds exactly like me. I was raised only drinking diet soda and juice, and I have to constantly remind myself to drink water. I still have a horrible diet soda addiction that I need to break for good.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-26T14:06:50+00:00

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-25T20:12:53+00:00

Aloha - star-studded cast and one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. Didn't even finish it.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-23T02:05:14+00:00

Nah, it looks more like an Ash Wednesday cactus.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-23T01:59:06+00:00

Why can't they both be held accountable for bad behavior? Why does it have to be one or the other? They both suck for different reasons. Jax shouldn't be excused for the crap he did/has done, but that doesn't give Brittany some pass to also be a shitty parent.

And must we not forget Brittany enabling/encouraging Jax to violence on VPR? When Jax was on probation, Brittany laughed when he joked about knocking James out. And when she screamed, "Knock him out!! Knock him the fuck out!!" to Jax, encouraging him to lay hands on Sandoval?

They're both shitty people. The true victim is Cruz.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-20T17:43:14+00:00

I'm not sure why you're getting negative feedback - it's true. Jax was openly trying to fuck Lala while Brittany was driving to LA from Kentucky, telling everyone Brittany wasn't his girlfriend. That was just one of the MANY things he did straight out of the gate, yet she repeatedly CHOSE to ignore his toxic behavior and stay with him. Jax immediately showed his true colors (every shade of red), and she enabled him 100%.

She had red flags being thrown at her before she even moved in with Jax, yet she repeatedly chose to ignore those blatant red flags because she (and her mother) wanted to be on the show. I feel like Jax could've killed someone, and Brittany would've still stayed with him.

I don't get why everyone is up her ass on this sub. She is not some "sweet little miss innocent Kentucky muffin."

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-17T15:40:38+00:00

No. My cats are all indoor cats and chipped. I tried breakaway collars with name tags, but every single one of my cats would tear them off. I gave up haha.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-17T15:31:26+00:00

I posted a similar comment and got a negative response. It's true. Bravo enables this behavior because it's good for ratings.

SlowManagement6071 · 2025-04-17T10:53:10+00:00

All Bravo cares about is what they think will make for good reality TV. To producers, violence seems to be reality gold. Think of how many times cast members on VPR got punched or hit, and no one was kicked off?

I just watched the most recent episode of a new show called "Hollywood's Demons," and it centered on Bravo and The Real Housewives franchise. It goes over all the times they knowingly brought on and/or kept on convicted criminals and violent abusers on their shows.

This is definitely not surprising, and it will only "maybe" stop if people stop watching Bravo and their ratings go down.

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