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Barbara St. Clair's avatar

If you are a daughter who was beaten by her father (because what else could a vigorous spanking that hurts you be?) this isn’t creepy or pervy. It is absolutely terrifying.

My father beat me more than once. Way more. Because I was a rebellious child who was fresh. (“Don’t be fresh.”). Who started things. (“Don’t start.). Who didn’t listen. (“Shut up and listen.”). And as he spanked me “vigorously,” he would get more and more frenzied because his actions were not getting the result he wanted - which ultimately was a different daughter who he would not have to hit to feel like a father. And of course, that was never going to happen.

Carlson’s shriek of anger and punishment is very familiar to me. And while my father’s expression of it did not change me into the girl he wanted, it did change me forever. I am a person who people tend to recognize as successful. Yet, I wonder what and who I could have been if my father has not battered me? How much more confident? How much more resilient? How much more creative, more capable? How much less guarded?

This is the first time I have gone public with my history. (I am in my 60’s.) It feels awful to do so. But I can’t, I can’t let this go unsaid.

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Ellen Morrison's avatar

Tucker's Daddy's Home shtick is one of, no, THE, creepiest, most pervy, outpouring of disgusting rhetoric I've ever witnessed. And we've all been subjected to a lot of that shit since Big Daddy came down that elevator.

Hitler would be ashamed to be associated with MAGA.

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