What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public for being gay?
What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public for being gay?
#1What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public for being gay?
Posted: 12/4/10 at 11:18am
Discuss!
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#2What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 12:07pmPreach, lady in the jean jacket. Preach.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#2What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 12:32pmI watched this last night and it broke my heart even though I knew they were actors.
KFTC!!!!!
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#3What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 1:05pmI'd end up getting arrested.
#4What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 1:15pmI don't know if anyone truly knows until they're in the moment, but I like to think I'd intervene by talking to the kid, rather than confronting the parent. Telling him or her that there is a lot of support for them among their peers and the community. I might end up getting into it with the parent, but I think I'd start by trying to support the kid.
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#5What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 3:37pm
Kudos to that one lady you yelled at the father.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 4:47pm
I'd do what I did a few years ago when I found a mother in the doctor's waiting room berating her two children. I means she was really going after them because she'd experienced some sort of disappointment. I think she was unable to get a relative to take care of the kids while she and her buddies took a weekend trip to Atlantic City. The two kids (around 7 or 8 years old) were pretty well behaved and at one point the woman grabbed the girl by the wrist and flung her across the room, hurting the girl in the process. I went to the men's room and called 911 (I wasn't about to let a half-crazed woman see me making the call) to report the situation and they sent a car. Once I did that, I came out and the woman was still ranting. At that point I told her that she was wrong and that the police were already on their way. The kids were under the chairs in the waiting room, hiding from her. I stood by the kids and wouldn't let the lady near her children until the police arrived.
No one else in the waiting room, or the receptionist, did anything to help.
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nygrl232
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
#7What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 4:59pm
I'd tell them to keep private stuff private, maybe. But I wouldn't get involved. I'm being honest. I wouldn't know what to say other than you're abusing your kid in public and I will have to report you for this, because it's wrong for you to do that, and it's also the law to report abuse.
But I wouldn't know what to say about the context of the scenario.
#8What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 5:47pmWord, Q! I'd have been arrested if I was anywhere near that table.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#9What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 5:52pm
I wasn't being completely serious.
Not completely 
I am somewhat known for my big, fat mouth - and I engage people in public all the time (although, usually in a very upbeat and friendly way.) I have NO DOUBT that I would say something, but I'm sure I would attempt to keep it civil.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#10What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 6:09pmI would say, "Mom why do you always yell at me for this in public!"
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 9:23pm
Q and I should hang out together.
We could do some serious damage.
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Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#12What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/4/10 at 9:27pm
Hehe
#13What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/5/10 at 12:00amThis is not the first time this show has tackled issues relating to gay teens. They do stuff like this often.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#14What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/5/10 at 1:20am
I so meant to watch this, so thanks for posting.
As usual, I'd like to think I'd intervene, but I suppose we don't know until we're faced with it.
Although last night at a community holiday stroll, about 20 kids were following and taunting another boy. I did step in and tell them to knock it off....and then stayed with the boy for a while to make sure they didn't come back. Not a single other person did or said a thing. And this was a hugely FAMILY type event. (I do admit: this show went through my head before I stepped in to do anything.)
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Updated On: 12/5/10 at 01:20 AM
#15What would you do if you witnessed a parent berating their child in public
Posted: 12/5/10 at 5:01pmI work as a nanny, and after the It Gets Better project came out I made a vow to myself that if I ever saw bullying happening when I'm with my charges at the playground, I would step in, help the bullied child, and tell all the other kids to **** off.
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