I’m a cutter (well, trying to quit, but still) and this is so ridiculously inaccurate that I just want to like, scream at her and yet laugh at the same time.

Silly woman. I had no idea it was even a “trend” or whatever. i started freaking doing it at age nine, how could i? I had no exposure to such actresses, let alone interviews that made me go “oooh,ahhh, that looks fun”.

No, I just did it. And Christina’s right. It’s calming, and it doesn’t hurt a bit.

Maybe you need to research outside “Hollyweird” to get some actual facts, bitch…

*Takes a deep sigh*.

and Malkin’s article didn’t come right out and blame Ricci; i think her point was “hollywood people glamorizing this behavior certainly doesn’t help”.

seriously, what exactly is a parent supposed to do? take them to a shrink, just to have the shrink tell you a)she needs meds b)what on earth did you do to this child? or 3)she’s a jackass tween who wants to be like everyone else. this overindulgent “I dont want my kids to hate me I just want to be their friend” society we live in is f*cking up our kids, and so many of us, especially those of us who arent like that, are a loss. do we keep the tv off and play monopoly and scrabble every damn night? what about the 50% of this country that is divorced? that makes how many hundreds of thousands of children living in two homes? yeah, for 3 or 4 days a week, we can supervise her, ground her, involve her, talk to her, whatever. but what about the other half of the week when she’s at the other parent’s home and the other parent, quite frankly, is a moron? what to do, what to do? maybe if everyone stopped bitching about ONE WOMAN’S article and started speculating on “how can we stop this crazy sh*t” there wouldnt be need for any more articles like Ms Malkin’s.

She is aware that there is a large mosque there and the offices of a charity shut down for links to the terra wrists, isn’t she?

–Actually, if you want to get technical, I burned myself with hot water and hot stoves, which don’t leave marks, after I got caught with the scissors. Also, you can stick a compass in pretty deep without drawing blood, if you’re careful. Xacto knives have limited usefulness, too, with extreme care.

This was after I was forced to stop other self-harming behavior like nail-biting, in the 70s. And before I learned the therapeutic value of imagining turning my school, home, town and world into an Alderaan-style cloud of expanding dust, instead. Body-slamming one’s self into a wall, absent hot water, hot surfaces, or sharp objects, can do in a pinch, too.

The guys at my schools OTOH tended to just burn themselves with cigarette lighters and stick safety pins through their skin, in order to “bleed just to know you’re alive,” which expressed a slightly different form of depression than I had, which was using pain as a self-medication in the form of a backfire, to stop myself from going postal. (and no, Columbine didn’t make me think of that fashion, this was the 80s…)

–What’s emo? Oh, and Malkin’s a retard. But we all knew that.

An Invalidating Environment

Seb over at Sadly No has a post about some right-wing commentors take on the problem of cutting and other forms of addictive self-abuse among female adolescents: basically, they say it’s Hollywood’s fault. Wow, what a g…

Your lesson for today…people who live in stupid houses shouldn’t…run the toaster and the microwave at the same time.

I’d ask what kind of ignorant loser would come up with something as inane as “cutting lifestyle”, but that’s already self-evident. I swear to god, there are few things I loath more than some conservative fuckwit pulling some hysterical ravings out of their ass about how teenagers are all crazed, self-destructive, violent, slutty animals. And I swear there’s more of them every month.

Hell, when I was in sixth grade, the big thing with some of the kids was to give yourself an eraser burn on your arm. But for some reason, I didn’t see bloviating fool blathering about the “eraser lifestyle”. And the people who I knew were cutters had some major issues they were struggling through, instead of following some fad the wench made up.

That having been said, I believe it rather inappropriate for Malkin to pervert this into some kind of political statement.

I had a friend who cut herself because she was filled with self-loathing and didn’t have the courage to come to her parents with her depression. Now she’s fine. It’s a mental illness, not a fad. God, Malkin is such a dithering twat.

Anyway, if Malkin decides to post any racially charged hate-mail she gets, you’ll know she’s been thoroughly discredited. But, she won’t tell you that either.

Ms. Jolie’s hair – Evans of Hollywood, accessories by Buck

Ms. Ricci’s wardrobe – Prada, accessories by
Fiskars Shears.