Seconded.

Thirded or whatever.

I don't have to click this, I lived this. Only without anyone intervening. Thank God for video technology.

Why didn't he do something? Never heard of this horrible thing called Men's Violence Against Women? If he defends them, he goes to prison, and the kids stay with her.

bullshit, he has evidence and witnesses that he was protecting his kids from a merciless psycho beating his kids up. Plenty of women get arrested for beating up men.

Suck my cock

"he has evidence and witnesses"

And yet she only ended up with one month in prison, two years probation, and ,600 dollars in fines.

Yeah, as Mr Oddeye states, he's got filmed evidence. Courts may naturally favor women in cases of family disputes, but they aren't robotic oppression-machines; if the father interceded physically against his wife, then given the circumstances, I am fairly confident the courts would find in his favor.

Besides, even if he would get sent to prison, I would argue that one still has a moral obligation to intercede in situations like this. I have spoken out against the concept of vigilante justice many times before, but my issue has always been with the *fetishization* of vigilante justice, particularly in regards to the comic book and entertainment industry, and the consequences that such fetish-fantasies can have for the growth of fascism. It is this pervasive fantasy which is the problem, not the concept of vigilante justice in and of itself. When a real-life emergency happens before your eyes, then yes, it is time to act, regardless of any threats which "the authorities" might make against you.

Or maybe not. I have not watched the whole thing (I do not want to watch the whole thing), but doesn't the father take the children and call the cops? As far as physical abuse goes, then from what I have seen of the video, this is not an unconscionable level of violence; perhaps the best thing to do is simply to remain calm, decline to escalate, and then get the police involved as soon as the child is safely away? Kids are resilient; a simple beating may well be preferable to a simple beating followed by watching in horror as his parents murder one another.

Clearly, this is the fault of feminism. If only we could stop Anita Sarkeesian, tragedies like this would never happen again.

Being an actually diagnosed bipolar, I agree that calling anyone that has a raging, abusive freakout a bipolar is unfair to anyone that was born with it and is seeking treatment and managing it. That said, it is true that bipolar folks can get to states like this more easily and a normal person can due to a lapse in control. though some with bipolarism never get to such a state. bipolarist typically manifests itself in two predominate extreme emotions, and it's not always "manic" and "depressive." there are those taht swing from angry to happy, some swing from sad to suicidal, some swing from uncontrolled violence to extreme shame. The reasons for these swings are not known, but management for them is.

If this lady is or isn't bipolar is debatable. I could believe it but I could also believe that she isn't and is just evil. But bipolar or not, those that take their anger and rage out on others, especially kids, are scum regardless of diagnosis.

Just, please don't assume that all bipolar people are like this. Remember, Stephan Fry is also bipolar. We aren't all terrible people.

Yes, now that I've calmed down I can see that she could well be bipolar.
I've been diagnosed a few things myself *adjusting monocle* :Bipolar Affective Disorder, Manic depressive illness, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Substance and alcohol abuse, Paranoid ideation, Chronic Resistant depression, Post-traumatic stress disorder.
A lot of things got a lot better after 12 rounds of Electroconvulsive therapy.
(I just got brief summary of my recent history for a referral and had it lying near the computer.. Didn't realise there were that many different diagnoses)

I agree that whatever diagnosis or not, those that take their rage out out on others (especially kids) are scum.

I always thought that personality disorders were a way for psychologists to categorize and treat assholes and cunts. One type of asshole/cunt (Borderline) can't even be treated because their specific type of assholeishness/cuntiness compels them to lie through their teeth. It's amazing how thoroughly childhood trauma can ruin a human being and cause them to do the same to other human beings.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say in my above post(s)...she is fucked but she ain't crazy or bipolar.
And to me that makes her behaviour many degrees more abhorrent.

I think this video really touched a nerve for many members on this site...we all have our own issues and pasts and stories and hopefully this has further discouraged any actions similar to this individual by anyone who was abused similarly. Stop the cycle of abuse, if possible.

If the father had intervened physically to protect the kids, he would have been the one in jail.

Lacking the proof this video provides, I mean.

Jesus :(