09-23-02 @ 10:19 am EDT

Still too mad to talk straight about Charter. So I'll talk about something that's got me mad enough TO talk.

Have you seen that stupid wench on TV? The one who beat her kid in the parking lot? Maybe I typed too soon, and can't talk straight. But she doesn't even deserve that. I am SO mad. If I were her lawyer I would have stapled her mouth shut. Every word she says just makes me detest her even more, the...UGH, I can't even type the names I want to call her.

Let me just sum up what this b***h has been saying on TV, and you let me know if YOU think she deserves to be forgiven and to get her little girl back.

"I'm not a monster. It was only this one time that I did this!"

Oh, well, that's good! So, the next time somebody steps up and says, "Sure, I got plastered and drove and mowed down that little boy on the bike, but it was only that ONE time!"--we should forgive them and set them free? Hand their keys back to them, too? "Hey, sure I raped and murdered that woman, but it was just that ONE time! I'm not a monster." Okay, you're forgiven too! Here, here are your ropes and your knife and your ski mask back, since you asked so nicely.

Besides, how often does an abused person hear the words I'm sorry, I'll never do it again!? And how often is that promise upheld? Riiiiiiight.

"I know my daughter didn't deserve to be hit like that, I just lost my temper."

Well, that makes it all peachy-keen then! It's very nice that she says her daughter DIDN'T deserve it, yet then offers some kind of pathetic excuse as to WHY she did it anyway. Can anyone say "denial of responsibility"? I knew you could.

"Yes, I hit her in the head and I pulled her hair--but I didn't hit her in the face."

*whew!* That's great news, lady! Because if you'd hit her in the face, there might have been a bruise you'd have a hard time explaining away! It's so much easier to get away with it, you know, if you just hit the back of the head and pull on the hair. Apparently, yanking hair and slapping and subjecting a child to a possible concussion is just FINE, but bruising the face is not. Heaven forbid you should disfigure her so you'd have to explain your actions! Damn that camera that caught you anyway, eh?

"I'm very remorseful; I'm going to get treatment for this so I can get my daughter back!"

If you were so remorseful, you never would have even done this in the first place. Seeking help? Go for it. But you never should have needed help for BEATING YOUR KID in the first place. Nor would you keep offering such pathetic "apologies" (in quotes) and then denials of responsibility if you were really sorry. Bitch. (There, I said it, and it felt good.)

And from her lawyer: "The little girl is healthy and unharmed, and she wants to be with her mother."

Oh, like a four year old can just say, "You know, I DO have a say in this situation, and I deserve better!" and go walking off down the road to a better life all by herself. What do you EXPECT from a child? The reason so many abuse victims stay with their abusers is because they DON'T KNOW IT'S WRONG, they FEEL THEY DESERVE IT, or they DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO GO! A four-year-old girl can just give up her life with her mom and start a life of her own, away from the abuse? If she'd said, "I hate my mommy! I never want to see her again!" would you THEN believe that hitting her is wrong? Because apparently, if she doesn't know enough to say she didn't like being abused, and she still loves her mother, then the abuse is all right. Whatever. If all of this were so, then there would BE no abuse victims who stay with their abusers, who don't know for certain whether to love them or hate them. Many victims still love their abusers on some level. It makes the abuse no less wrong.

And I'm just too pissed off to try to remember any of the OTHER crap this broad spewed out on live television. I hope she never sees her little girl again. I have ZERO sympathy for this woman right now, and it just lessens every time I hear her spewing on TV.

There was also something else on the news about a "mother" (I use the term loosely) who had locked her child in a closet for four months and by the time she was rescued she weighed twenty-five pounds. No idea what her age was, I missed that part. What a wonderful day this is turning out to be for the young ones, hm?

Score two more victories toward my idea for requiring a LICENSE to bear children. We need a license to drive a car; we need to show an ID to drink beer; we need to be registered to vote. We need to have reached a minimum age to do all of those things. But when it comes to bringing a DEPENDENT HUMAN LIFE into the world, hell, free for all! Screw the circumstances, let's pop out a baby!