More stupidity…
Behold, another random moment of sheer, unadulterated idiocy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-barrett/like-big-tobacco-big-porn_b_221622.html
I stumbled upon this article while Googling the advertisements I mentioned in my previous blog entry. Apparently, Greg Barnett believes that tobacco and porn Are both equally poisonous… WHAT? How anyone can compare one to the other is completely beyond me.
Since I don’t feel like creating an account at the HUFFington Post just to comment on the article, I’ll just respond to it here:
The ones who should be responsible for children are the parents. Period. The government is there to govern, not to babysit. This is nothing new people. Sin and debauchery have existed for AEONS. The only difference between now and then is that we can play, record, rewind, and download sex. Children today, in my opinion, are no more fucked up now than they were before the internet. Besides, with so many yuppy, spineless parents that are too scared to actually discuss these issues with their kids, where the hell do they THINK they’re going to turn? And then, these are he same parents who turn it around and blame other sources for their kids being led astray. Hey assholes, the fault is yours.
And as a side note, I turned out just fine, thank you…
As a smoker, I’m personally upset to find out that Kretek cigarettes will no longer be available this September due to the “sweet flavor” being attractive to young kids looking for a smoke.
Honestly, it’s as if they are trying to put the blame on smokers for making it look cool to smoke, and invading my personal choices just because some idiotic parents don’t know how to raise their kids. I honestly can’t stand that the communication gap between generations grows larger just because parents are afraid of losing their child as a friend. As my mother says: “I’m not your fucking friend, I’m your mother.”
And that’s how it should be. Not to say the relationship shouldn’t be one of camaraderie, but the boundaries between child and parent have to be made clear and respected. When parents let their kids run their own lives, the results are usually not in their favor. And then we, as grown ups able to make conscious decisions about our lives, get blamed when someone’s kid decides to copy my example. I am not your fucking babysitter, and I never signed up to be your kid’s fucking role model.
I want my cloves back. :/
@Aisha
As an addendum regarding the porn. What in the fuck. You know, it would make more sense if parents actually utilized all the adult-filter technology that companies provide to avoid their kids getting ahold of porn. Hell, I remember when I first watched porn as a kid. It didn’t turn me into some sex-starved sociopath. And all those Kool and Salem ads in the back of the Jet and Essence magazines never turned me onto smoking. I don’t get how people can’t understand the concept of someone’s personal choice. No one advertised Djarem Black cigarettes to me, I just happened to try one out of curiosity. I knew full-well the consequences of long-term smoking. But it certainly wasn’t a result of the aforementioned ads.
I wasn’t experimenting with sex after watching porn with my friends. I may have had sex out of wedlock, but porn had nothing to do with it. My biological fucking clock, did.
@Aisha
In my case, I refrained from smoking BECAUSE everyone one else was doing it. When I was younger (and much more impressionable) nearly 90% of my family smoked. I got so turned off by it that I swore I would never touch one myself. Does that I won’t smoke forever? No. Maybe when I’m 60 and I just don’t give a fuck, I’ll smoke a cig. But peer pressure, even from my own family, didn’t make me a smoker. I personally think that anyone who succumbs to peer pressure is too spineless to stand their ground and tell his/ her friends, ” No thanks, bitch.” Let them enjoy their lung cancer and yellow teeth for being such fucking pussies.
And as for the porn, I agree with you 100%. It never gave me any false sense of reality. Wouldn’t the same be said for people who dress up for cosplays, or participate on renfairs? Do we now put a ban on Harry Potter because it teaches kids that “magic is real”? Where does the censorship end and the responsibility begin?
@MirandaAdria
There’s something I heard on the radio regarding schools actually putting parents in jail if their children are caught skipping school. I was like “what in the fuck”. I don’t know if there’s an article on it but when I heard I was like “How are the parents responsible for the kids when they’re AT SCHOOL.” The school should be liable if kids go missing from the premises.