Laptop Dad gets a visit from the authorities. (And they say "Meh!")

[Yo_Mama]

101. You're entitled to your opinion

But if the city manager says the home is outside the city jurisdiction, then the city cops were not the ones who went out to talk to him, right? So the guy can't be proved a liar by that statement - the city manager doesn't have anything to do with the county cops.

You think that the man's destruction of the laptop amounts to domestic violence. I do not. And in all honesty, I find that perversion of the concept of domestic violence to be deeply troubling.

When I was a kid, some kind relative gave my brothers and me bows and arrows for Christmas. My father gave us strict rules for their use and eventually destroyed them when we did not live up to his safety standards. I do not think that was domestic violence. It was an attempt to prevent us from possibly shooting each other with them carelessly. Parents must control their children's behavior, and have both the right and duty to do so when they perceive danger. Disposal was completely dramatic. He broke these fiberglass bows over his leg. To this day, I will never point a weapon when ANYONE is down the firing line.

The drama of this tragic laptop demise might be antithetical to my personality, but of course the controlling of the behavior here was in the removal of the laptop. The video was an attempt to demonstrate that two could play that game, and also to demonstrate to the kid that there is no such thing as privacy on the internet. This is a good lesson - one the kid needed to learn.

Domestic violence is violence against people. Removal of objects that minors can't handle properly is parenting.

If a man destroyed his wife's computer, or if a wife destroyed her husband's computer, that's a totally different thing. That's a peer-to-peer relationship, and the attempt to control your spouse's behavior in that manner would be very perturbing.

It's a sick perversion to confuse peer-to-peer relationships with guardian-minor relationships. They are necessarily different in quality and in scope. I know in some societies men are perceived to have some sort of authoritarian role over their wife's (or wives') behavior, but not in ours.

This was not domestic violence. Domestic violence is an ugly and brutal thing.