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Refinery29<\/em> Excerpt Below:<\/p>\n In the past week, the phrase, “cash me ousside, how bou dat?<\/a>” has become a meme, a song lyric, a t-shirt slogan, a Bitmoji<\/a>, and a very telling point about how our culture views domestic abuse.<\/p>\n Let’s back up a little: In September 2016, Dr. Phil had 13-year-old Danielle Peskowitz Bregoli and her mom, Barbara Ann, on his show<\/a> because Danielle was stealing her mom’s car and was “out of control.” Actually, Barbara said she wanted Danielle put in jail or, as Dr. Phil succinctly put it, she “wanted to give up my car-stealing, knife-wielding, twerking 13-year-old daughter who tried to frame me for a crime.”<\/p>\n “It’s hard to label, because we don’t know all the facts, but we know that when a young child acts out, those behaviors are usually a product of their environment and a warning sign that there’s more to the story,<\/em>” says Bryan Pacheco, a spokesperson for Safe Horizon. “What has she seen in her life that’s encouraging her to act like that?<\/em>” The Dr. Phil<\/em> video would suggest she’s seen quite a bit, and Pacheco points out that her mom’s antagonizing language is concerning and could have egged her on \u2014 she calls her a bitch, a lot.<\/p>\n While even the Dr. Phil<\/em> show has its own issues (like most reality television, we can assume it’s edited in a way that doesn’t show all the facts, but rather a carefully curated puzzle of events), making memes and parodies of this teen’s threats of violence normalizes the behavior in a dangerous way, Pacheco says. “It doesn’t set appropriate boundaries, clearly it isn’t appropriate, but if it’s on TV it’s something to laugh at,<\/em>” he says. Snowballing on the jokes isn’t just a bad way to address her behavior, it actually makes it worse.<\/p>\n
\nBy Cory Stieg<\/em>
\nFebruary 7, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n