Hi everyone. I'm so worried about this poor little girl. I'm on the Alabama Gulf Coast and obsessively studying every silver Rogue and every man with a teen I see. I wish there was more I could do.
On a slightly different note, I have seen his pictures and I would not call him revolting or anything remotely the same. There may be someone reading right now who is a kind and decent person but who shares some physical characteristics with TC and who may now feel shame or embarrassment because he has just learned that a consensus of women from 20 to 60 find him physically repulsive.
It is TC's actions that make him hideous, not his physical appearance. Words have power, but sometimes we don't realize how much. Predators deserve to be shamed for their moral bankruptcy and heinous actions, not their appearance. We all face insecurities about our appearance from time to time, and casual remarks about a villain's weight, wrinkles, thinning hair, nerdy clothes, etc. (not talking about this guy or any specific posts, just giving common examples) just reinforce the sad but widespread notion that we need to be attractive for others in order to gain acceptance and approval.
And, unfortunately, Lizzie's insecurities about her appearance are born of just this sort of beauty culture. Yes, she is beautiful. But what if she weren't? It's quite all right to not be beautiful too. That's a message I'd like to see spread far and wide.
In fact, it isn't that we need to convince our children they are beautiful. It's that we need to be sure they know in their heart of hearts that appearance is not the measure of a person, and that whether they possess great physical beauty has in fact never mattered and has no bearing whatsoever on their worth as a person nor on whether they are or are not lovable.
This is all JMO. Love to you all and to sweet Lizzie.
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