We really need professional voices and not the ding bats that we have. That's true on supposed cable 'news' and it's true on documentaries.
HBO is offering PHOENIX RISING which is supposedly about assault and abuse. It's a mini-series, HBO insists. Or a limited series.
Or how about this: It's crap.
Actress Even Rachel Wood is just the latest to proclaim she's a victim. And she well may be. What she's not is educated.
A series billing itself as a documentary should never include a statement like this that goes unchallenged, "It's the difference between remaining a victim or becoming a survivor. You either have the mind set to get help and face those demons and to want to change or you go the other way and you stay in the trauma and you never face it and you never deal with it and you take all the pain that you feel and you perpetuate more and more abuse."
Uh, excuse me, who's blaming the victim because, bitch, it ain't me.
Evan Rachel Wood is an example of home school ignorance (I'm sure there are many who excel at home schooling, she is not one) and yet because she says a man did something abusive to her, she's now an expert on abuse?
She's not an expert on s**t. And she needs to shut her damn mouth and stop speaking of others. She is not trained in trauma, she is not an expert. She's an idiot grasping at fame who wants to tell everyone what is what when she doesn't know s**t.
Her statement, if you really apply it, says any victim is a potential abuser.
That's what it says.
So before you embrace the idiot, think hard on that.
She's not helping anyone. Not even herself.