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One example, hardly noticed...on public television....emotional abuse...
.............yes, on television...

Three couples had come to the very last stage of the FEAR FACTOR challenge.

This fear factor challenge would put the remaining couples in the run for the ONE million dollar prize. The couples had come through many challenges, as many as ten weeks or so.

Here was the challenge. ..

The 'female' of the couple was to lay down in this lucite coffin-like box, while Fear Factor staff dropped about 500 live and hungry tarantulas all over her body. She had her eyes covered with goggles, and her ears plugged and part of her nose plugged and her mouth was 'free' and she just needed to keep that shut.

Well , one couple did it.. and the girl was feelng pain..from the crickets [they put hundreds of crickets in there too so that tarantulas would hopefully eat the crickets and not eat the girls.

The time came for the second couple to come through it.. Anyways.. TWO of the couples did the challenge. All of the girls cried..and were obviously upset by their roles in the challenge..

BUT, one girl ...was so overwhelmingly upset, she cried and cried BEFORE the challenge, as she watched the other couple do the challenge.

They put this girl in the box, and tied her down. and she REPEATEDLY said that she didn't think she could do this, and she repeatedly said that she couldn't do this and she didn't want to do this, but it seemed that nobody was listening to this girls pleas but everyone kept encouraging her to do this for
THE MILLION DOLLARS...

The girl began shaking and moving her legs all around...and pleading with her 'male' part of the couple..saying that she couldn't do this.. She was crying and very obviously very emotionally upset. She 'obviously ' couldn't do this stunt or challenge..

and yet....
her 'boyfriend' did not stop the challenge...and just kept at her ..insisting that she do this challenge
of letting 500 tarantulas and crickets crawl all over her practically naked body --she wore a bikini-like top.

At that moment..as this girl's went UNHEARD by the so-called boyfriend, we, the audience were witnessing
................
...............public EMOTIONAL ABUSE....

argue all you like but this was very obvious emotional abuse.

THe girl had stated over and over and over and over that she couldn't do this challenge. The girl's body was revolting against this challenge when she began shaking her legs and being uncontrollably nervous and almost petrified.

It's my opinion that this boyfriend was playing his own part in this emotional abuse. He never stopped the challenge.. THE FEAR FACTOR host stopped the challenge and the boyfriend was obviously disappointed that this girl wouldn't let the tarantulas crawl all over her.

At this point , I was thinking , heck , if he is so enthused with this stunt, why don't he get into a bikini and get in the box and switch roles with the girl?

I was thinking that if this boy cared for her he would have had more heart and he would have shown her respect, MILLION dollars or no million dollars..

SORRY BUSTER..

respect , and love... and listening to your real partner in this world, hearing their pleas and coming to their rescue and standing up for them

these are things that are worth a hell of a lot more than anyone's million dollars.

So m oral of the story , here, as we see it before our eyes, this 'boyfriend' can be purchased..and this boyfriend has respect for himself but not for others.

As we saw on television, it meant nothing that this girl cried her eyes out and was literally tied down into the box crying and pleading with him to stop the challenge, this 'person' refused to hear the cries of her heart.

This was emotional abuse
in public..
yet, no one has mentioned it or been outraged over it.

Well..here's the clue folks.

JUST Because someone will or might be PAID to do extraordinary things, and might win a prize to do things that ordinary people would'n't dare do ,..just because these factors enter into the day , this does NOT excuse the emotional abuse that we all witnessed on television.

AND< no , it didn't matter that this girl signed a contract and no it didn't matter that she went there with the intention to WIN, it didn't matter at all because WHEN SHE SAID NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ..
thats when the challenge should have been stopped.
and that's when this girl should have been released

and tha'ts when ---or BEFORE then .. when her so-called boyfriend should have stopped this challenge and grabbed her from the tomb and hugged her and loved her for herself.

Just like a woman can say YES to a dinner, and YES to a movie..and just like she can KNOW that she might be visiting someone's apartment, when a girl says NO to sex...this NO is quite legitimate.

My point is ...
that
Nothing that 'precedes' the emotional abuse and nothing that 'precedes' the physical abuse..matters when a woman says

...............................NO!

or when a woman says... I've had quite enough...

What you witnessed on FEAR FACTOR was abuse..
plain, simple ordinary --if there is any such thing..

ABUSE! ...

I sat there and watched that coward of a boyfriend and thought ..hell, that would be one DUMPED boyfriend had he done that to any of us who know what emotional abuse is...

trouble is ..that most of us who have ever experienced this sort of thing

don't notice it until later.

Abuse is abuse..even if the 'victim' will be paid a million dollars....

the only difference is that
this was 'paid' abuse..

one no better than the other...

so there you go..
a public plain clear example of
emotional abuse..

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