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Brutal Parenting, Great Love
00:02:52
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| Hi everybody, so occasionally you come across an artist full of some significant contradictions. | |
| Now, artists aren't always the best at processing their own emotional trauma. | |
| They tend to channel it through their art rather than deal with it themselves. | |
| They no more process your emotional trauma than your plumbing takes a shower. | |
| It's just a conduit for the water. | |
| But there is something that is kind of confusing about the singer Pink, who I think is a great singer, a great songwriter, a great performer. | |
| But not too long ago, she came out with a few unusual statements, I guess at least from my perspective, about parenting. | |
| And she declared that parents should be able to, and I quote,"...beat the crap." Political correctness has gone too far. | |
| She says her own father's beatings saved her life. | |
| She said, I think parents need to beat the crap out of their kids. | |
| Not should have the right to, need to. | |
| She said, I think the whole spanking thing and how it's all gotten PC is just for the birds. | |
| When asked whether her father, a Vietnam veteran, spanked her, Pink replied, Oh, he put me through a wall. | |
| It's the only reason I'm still here. | |
| It's the only reason I'm still alive. | |
| The singer's parents divorced when she was seven years old. | |
| By nine, she says she was smoking, and in her early teens, she was regularly taking LSD and ecstasy. | |
| She was thrown out of home at 15. | |
| She said, I deserved it. | |
| I would have kicked me out when I was eight. | |
| I was not comfortable with authority or rules. | |
| I was bad. | |
| And for those who don't know, it's a great song, Family Portrait. | |
| She sings that it ain't easy growing up in World War III never knowing what love could be. | |
| I don't want love to destroy me like it has done my family. | |
| And it's brutal, brutal stuff. | |
| And there's sort of Early pain, which results in bad behavior, which has her father, and I don't think she's being allegorical here, putting her through a wall, is combined with this oddly contrasted nurturing side in the performer, which is that she's apparently very into attachment parenting. | |
| She's a big fan of breastfeeding, and she just recently We're good to go. | |
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Treat Animals, Beat Kids
00:01:55
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| If Pink were to say something like, I think that people need to be able to beat their puppies, put them through the wall, just so they learn right from wrong. | |
| People need to be able to beat their kittens and their baby bunnies and so on. | |
| People would be like, ah! | |
| They'd be shocked. | |
| They'd hit higher notes than Celine Dion squatting on a half-frozen bidet. | |
| It's astonishing what would happen if she put that argument out. | |
| But with children, you see, be kind to animals. | |
| Treat animals well. | |
| I won't even wear leather. | |
| Bam! | |
| Got to be able to hit your kids, though. | |
| Need to hit your kids. | |
| Should beat the crap out of your kids and put them through walls so that they turn out right. | |
| It's just astonishing the degree to which we still... | |
| We cannot view children as moral agencies, moral agents deserving of protection and respect, at least at the level of your average pet bunny. | |
| And now, I don't know what Pink's current views are on child raising or child rearing, whether she intends to put her daughter, I think it's a daughter, through walls and beat the crap out of her and so on. | |
| It's hard to say. | |
| But if you're for the ethical treatment of animals, which I think is a fine goal and a fine idea, I would say perhaps we could go just that little bit further. | |
| And do you remember how way back in the day you couldn't categorize slaves as human beings and therefore you could treat them worse than you would treat animals? | |
| We're kind of there when it comes to kids, to children. | |
| These days, we don't seem to have the ability to say, well, if I'm for the ethical treatment of animals, and children are animals, maybe I should do less nude posing to save baby seals, and possibly, | |