It doesn't take long to fall in love with Flagstaff, at least for me. Our second day, we went to downtown Flagstaff and wandered around all of the stores. Stand with Elizabeth and the other 70 percent of American citizens between the ages of 20-24 who have been victimized by a significant other. The more you feed into an individual’s abusive personality, the more the individual becomes abusive. The next time you see a Cot Dammit Elizabeth video, I challenge you to think about how you would feel in Elizabeth’s shoes before you laugh or share the video.
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Typically abusers are more under control when other people are watching. However, when every video he makes have at least one characteristic of abuse, how can you sit back and laugh at them? How can you not have pity for Elizabeth? If he treats her that way in front of the camera, just imagine how he is behind closed doors with nobody around. I know a lot of you out there insist the Cot Dammit Elizabeth videos are made for fun and not harm. He is so strict on making sure she does exactly what he wants her to do and nothing else. Not only is this disturbing, it is a characteristic of an abusive stalker. Most of us would feel defeated and unworthy, probably resulting a few tears.įurthermore, Ekow hired someone to make sure Elizabeth stays on her diet when he can't be there to watch her. Imagine someone calling us names when we’re exhausted after a long day. He even calls her a “slob” when she takes naps, just adding to the emotional abuse he appears to show her often. Girls already have a lot of self-esteem problems, we don’t need our boyfriends telling us to throw up our food so we look good. He forces her to throw up the food she ate because she “asked for help.” Okay, so maybe she asked for your help, but she probably never asked you to make her bulimic. He forces to wake up and do strenuous activities clearly against her will. Ekow forcefully pushes his girlfriend into the water to swim at midnight. Emotionally abusive relationships can destroy your self-worth, lead to anxiety and depression, and make you feel helpless and alone.”Ĭorrect me if I’m wrong, but many of Ekow’s characteristics are considered abusive by the Tahoe Safe Alliance. And while physical injury may be the most obvious danger, the emotional and psychological consequences of domestic abuse are also severe. Tahoe Safe Alliance(2016) says “Domestic abuse often escalates from threats and verbal abuse to violence. and swimming laps at midnight), pushes her forcefully into the water to swim, tells her to throw up the food she ate, and he screams at her when she does anything he does not approve of. For starters, in these videos he forces her do ridiculous workouts late at night (i.e. So much so, that it is disgusting for some of us to watch these videos. He claims she asked him for help to stick to a diet and workout schedule. Ekow Fynn, 27, records small clips of his girlfriend Elizabeth, 21, being “lazy” and unmotivated to maintain a diet and workout schedule.
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To some, the videos are hilarious and harmless, and to others it looks like abuse. Many of us have seen the Cot Dammit Elizabeth videos. This victimization may be in the form of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse or exploitation. According to, seventy percent of individuals between the ages of 20 and 24 have experienced victimization of some sort from a significant other.