New Jersey Tanning Booth Mom

[SWTXBelle]

http://www.khou.com/video/featured-v...149717925.html

It is a prom pledge: No tanning. And for students at First Baptist Academy of Dallas, it has unanimous support.
While all proms have a theme, this one is a little different — dress for fun, but wear your real color.
"Girls look beautiful the way they are, in the skin they are in," said senior Kristen Verhuiden, who says she is proud to be pale.
She wants her fellow classmates to avoid the peer pressure of tanning. She says the golden glow has to come from within.
“We're just going to go natural and be confident in who we are," she said.

[Sciencewoman]

My daughter is a redhead and she has not one freckle. Even in daycare, she wouldn't go outside without a hat...it was like she had some self-protection gene. If I'm still around to see her in 50 years, that girl's skin is going to look GREAT.

[DubaiSis]

The bed is closed so the other person in the room wouldn't get much UVA (according to the dermatologist I saw today on The View).

I went to a tanning bed exactly twice. The first time, whatever. The second time I got FuhRIED. And never again.

The thing that always pops into my mind is wouldn't it be funny if people who do that to themselves are also racist?

eta/oh and by the way, I have two sisters who have psoriasis. They both have gone through "light treatments" which is really just a stand up tanning bed. Except that if I'm remembering right, they would do the light treatments for something like 15 seconds. And this was under full medical supervision, in a doctor's office. They were told to get real sun, VERY important, but never more than 15 minutes. This all just screams to me the typical American thing of taking something good and overdoing it to the point of being very very bad.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

The thing that always pops into my mind is wouldn't it be funny if people who do that to themselves are also racist?

What?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

The girl showed up at school with a sunburn. I'm thinking that mom's excessive tanning raised a red flag with the school staff...but from what I've heard, the investigation began due to the daughter's sunburn, not her presence at the tanning salon and whether she was in the bed or just in the room.

My son got his worst sun burn ever while on a school field trip at this time of year, even though I had sent sun screen with him. A sunburn isn't proof of anything. If nobody saw the kid in a tanning booth, I don't how they'd prove anything. I suppose if the kid had no tan lines, that would be suspicious.

What bothers me about this is along the lines of what Pika is saying... there are kids in homes without heat in the winter, without running water, who are being abused severely, who were sexually abused for years by a stepfather who is still in the house but has stopped and, in comparison, this is pretty minor. Yes, this woman is a freak. Even if she did let the kid try out the tanning booth, I'm not convinced the kid should be removed from the home.

[Sciencewoman]

Someone must have interviewed the child, don't you think, before it went this far?

In the same way this story has garnered so much attention, I think the mom must have been the subject of gossip around the school and that just invited suspicion in this area.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Someone must have interviewed the child, don't you think, before it went this far?

In the same way this story has garnered so much attention, I think the mom must have been the subject of gossip around the school and that just invited suspicion in this area.

In the report I heard, the kid had said that she goes to the tanning booth with mommy. That's technically correct even if she doesn't go inside the apparatus though. Even if she did, I would say that maybe she needs to be educated and warned, but not have the child removed from the home.

[WCsweet<3]

I was reading a different article about the tanning craze and this quote reminded me of the woman:
"'Indoor tanning is like smoking for your skin,' Dr. Doris Day, a dermatologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City"

I'd say this is just about right with her...

[PeppyGPhiB]

I saw footage of the daughter: red head with super pale skin. It would not be hard for her to get a sunburn from just going outside in the hot sun for a half-hour.

[VandalSquirrel]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1072017

This article had my favorite comment about her.

"Krentcil later dodged reporters at her Nutley home, hiding a brownish-orange face nearly as leathery as her black jacket."

At the end her husband states she adds makeup to look even darker, which wouldn't account for the texture and condition of her skin.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Jeebus be the UV light of the world.

I'm a little ashamed at how hard this made me laugh.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

No, everything that is made darker is not blackface. Blackface is a historical and contemporary intentional process of darkening one's skin to imitate, mimick, and mock.

Did you mean this to be "or?" Because IIRC but I once said that something didn't qualify as blackface because it was imitating but not mocking and you said I was wrong. *raised eyebrow*

Can she not look like a ruddy potato? Please and thank you,.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Did you mean this to be "or?"

No.

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Because IIRC but I once said that something didn't qualify as blackface because it was imitating but not mocking and you said I was wrong.

How does that conflict with my use of "and" rather than "or"?

Are you talking about this thread in which Senusret and I said it is not about intent to disparage? There is no "Blackface Formula" (my use of "and" versus "or" is inconsequential). Whether or not something is blackface is not based on whether someone thought they were imitating (I guess in admiration) rather than mocking. The outcome if interracial imitation is usually a mockery because people consider it unnecessary and offensive.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

There is no "Blackface Formula" (my use of "and" versus "or" is inconsequential).

It was conflicting because ITT you deemed "blackface" to be anything that imitates, mimicks, AND mocks (which I guess you could call a formula if you want), meaning that it only qualifies if mocking is included in the intent. However, you've previously said the intent did not matter, so it could be imitating OR mocking. I was trying to clarify if you are now saying mocking has to be included in the intent or if you still believe intent does not matter--which is why I asked "and" vs. "or" and that's the question you just answered.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

There are no words....

Mother allegedly took 5 year old to tanning booth. She denies it and is being charged with child endangerment.

I normally post part of the article. But, when I saw this woman's photos, I did not know whether the issue was her daughter using the tanning booth or the woman herself using the tanning booth.






Dayuummmmm, Gina! Black don't crack and if God doesn't give it to you, give it to yourself. Someone call that other Dr. Phil (the less cool one) and Dr. Drew.

Just quickly glancing at these photos, it reminds me of people who must wear face-covers when they receive face burns (the brownish-colored masks).

[DrPhil]

"Leave my family alone!"



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