#escapingpolygamy

Sunday, June 1st:

(streaming shows): MobLand (Para+, season 1 finale), Our Unwritten Seoul (netflix), Witch Watch (hulu), "GO! GO! Loser Ranger!" (hulu), Good Boy (APrime, Korean police action-comedy 2nd day premiere)

(original made-for-TV movies): "Mr. Pawsitively Perfect" (UPtv, earlier, 2hrs), "The 13th Wife: Escaping Polygamy" (LIFE, part 2 of two, 2hrs+)

(hour 1): Duck Dynasty "FlashQuack" (A&E, clip show)

(hour 2): The Chi (SHO), Godfather of Harlem (MGM+), The Walking Dead: "Dead City" (AMC|AMC+, ~70mins), "Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain" (CNN), BBQ Brawl (FOOD, competition season 6 opener, new night, 2hrs), The Mega-Brands That Built America (HIST, season 3 opener), "The Mortician" (HBO, true-crime docuseries, part 1 of three), Duck Dynasty: The Revival (A&E, reality spinoff series premiere)

(hour 3): My Happy Place (CNN, "Octavia Spencer in New Orleans"), BBQ Brawl (FOOD, contd)

I’m watching Escaping Polygamy and it’s causing me to reflect on what being a phone sex operator exposed me to as far as toxic men’s mentality.  The more I think about it, these types of men, are immature, insecure and powerless.  They’re really just a joke.  So instead of learning to love themselves and instead of being good people they decide to get their false sense of strength by abusing women.  Anyone that has to cause fear and intimidation is pitiful.  Anyone, any group, any sexual class that feels the need to brainwash and coerce and groom, are pitiful and truly weak.  It’s up to us, those who fell for it, to wake up and take back our own power.  We were never inferior.  We were lied to and controlled and manipulated.  Only evil people who have something to hide, will go that far.  

Rise up, men and women of religious abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse.  Rise up.  You are worthy and you can overcome.  You just have to get out.  If you have even one shred of doubt, trust your gut and run.  

If your father groomed you into thinking it’s natural for him to have s*x with you as a young child, it’s not your fault. Your father used you. He was never able to love you. I don’t care how sweet and kind he was or how you were raised in **c*est; it is not okay.  Why do you think Warren Jeff’s is spending life plus 20 years in jail.  

America’s most twisted crime family – and the boys who dared to defy it

Rolling Stone Article BY JESSE HYDE June 15, 2011

The two boys pulled into the driveway and shifted the green Honda into park. It was February in Salt Lake, cold and gray, and in the foothills above the city, a low fog hung over the mountains. They sat there for a moment, warming their hands against the sputtering heater. Then one of them exhaled slowly, his breath shuddering in the cold air. It was time. They were finally getting even.

The well-kept yellow house sat on the corner of a tidy cul-de-sac called South Bonner Circle surrounded by a black wrought-iron fence. From the outside it seemed like a typical suburban home, offering few clues of the secrets that were contained inside. A passerby might catch a glimpse of children in the windows, but for the most part, the Young family kept to themselves. Their neighbors had no idea that the family were prominent members of the Kingston clan, the most powerful polygamist cult in America — and one of the most dangerous.