[AnotherUnixGeek]

Believe me,
I’ve been hit and I’ve been verbally abused.

I’d rather be hit.

I'm truly sorry. But what I heard just didn't sound like that big a deal - just some yelling from an absentee father. I dislike Alec Baldwin intensely, but most parents yell at their kids from time to time, and most kids shrug it off or yell back. If this were part of some endless verbal abuse such as what you were subjected to, that's another matter, but this girl doesn't even live with Baldwin.

[najida]

A girl learns that shes loved, beautiful, worthy, hell, loved by God by the words of her father.

Believe me, when I say that absent or not, he is the male who will determine her self-worth. Calling her a thoughtless pig with the venom that he did?

Sheesh, coupled with other things he’s done, it will be a miracle if there isn’t a suicide attempt in her future.

If a girls father doesn’t love her, no man, even God will never love her. She’ll go through life feeling damned and flawed.

So yeah, I really, REALLY see a lot of damage in what he did.