Did Justin Bieber suggest that Hailey Baldwin is his property? – National

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The comment in question was made on a glamorous Baldwin photo posted on the social media site that she captioned with both hearts emoji. Bieber's reaction: "Dat's mine."

But is the commentary simply a sweet reference or does Bieber use language, which implies that Baldwin is something he owns, creates a dangerous precedent?

"says Dr. Natasha Sharma, a relationship psychologist in Toronto. "It's just thinking that they're happy and exuberant."

Sharma also points out that the comment could have been more negatively superimposed if the picture had been a bikini picture of the whole body – in this case, it could have been easy to see his comment as objectification. But as it is merely a portrait, she thinks it indicates the pride of her future wife

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"If we heard someone say that at a party about their new fiancée, no one would read in. But because of the permanence of social media, people can spend hours trying to interpret his comment. "

Although most reactions to Bieber's comment were positive and expressed pleasure in seeing him spring from his fiancée, some experts" In the relations of 19459020, we have the respect, equality, power sharing and humor, "says Natasha Sandy, a Toronto-based registered psychotherapist." This kind of language is understood in a very different context of abusive relationships where a person is really treated as his property to do as he pleases. "

Because our culture does not" overflow "with respect for everyone, Bieber's commentary becomes something to be debated.

" The dominant culture has a lot to appren on respect, and bigger conversations about how we treat people are desperately needed, "says Sandy. comes from a loving or humorous place, his message can easily be overthrown by others.

In the blockbuster movie Mean Girls Tina Fey plays a maths teacher who tries to reason with her teenage students who use the language disparaging one towards the other, even in joking, can normalize it and allow others to use in their regard. Namely, boys.

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"[Some of these words] has a lot of negative connotation.There is no hidden meaning," Sharma explains: "When you throw toxic words out of joke, you do not normalize them, but you also start to absorb the toxicity of these terms."

However, she notes that "Dat's mine" are reasonably neutral semantic words

"I do not think anyone believes that he thinks he is his property."