By Paula Todd. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2014.
Why Are We So
Horrible to Each Other?
Human nature.
More specifically, with regard to Ellen Page coming out of
the closet, there is a groundswell of people who have had quite enough of the
lgbt agenda being shoved down their throats by mainstream media outlets, such
as TV Ontario. Nature teaches, and people know in the back of their mind two
roosters can’t make an egg, two tomcats can’t have kittens and two men or two
women can’t make a baby, nor have the kind of truly intimate relationship that
it is possible for a man and a woman to have.
Read similar in order to find an explanation for “racism”, “sexism”
and “far right extremism.”
By the way, I suppose, from some of the examples of comments
in defense of Page given in this chapter, that calling people names because
they were calling someone else names is perfectly acceptable?
The Haunting of
Amanda Todd
A question I have heard no one else ask about this case is:
How did Amanda Todd not know not to expose her private parts to other people?
Don’t kids learn that around three or whatever age it is when they like to pull
down their pants or lift their dresses over their heads?
Also, Here is what I would do if my daughter requested to
stay home from school after being up to all hours texting on her phone:
(Feels forehead)
Me: Hmmm, you aren’t sick. We weren’t on a long car trip
yesterday from which we got back late. Nobody close to us is getting married or
having their funeral today. Then, I guess, if the schoolboard says today’s date
is one on which you have to be attending school, you’re going to school. Be
more responsible getting yourself to bed on time.
Cyberstocking a Good
Samaritan
What employers-and most other people don’t understand about
the internet is everything is not contemporary. By this I mean just because you
see something on there, even if it comes up on the first page of Google search
results, that doesn’t necessarily mean it originated recently.
With most of the population being whacked out on legal or
illegal drugs, it’s not surprising things like the horrible instances of
extortion described in this chapter are going on.
Rebecca’s Black
Friday
For one thing, we were so saturated with television and
other media before the internet we lost the ability to distinguish between
fantasy and reality. Society became unable to separate the public persona from
the real person and the internet only made things several times worse.
I also think the hatred toward “Friday” stemmed from a
groundswell of people who have had enough of having to swallow whatever
Hollywood and the music industry tell them is cool. There is more of a movement
these days to search out new bands, films, etc. for oneself.
Also, though I’m not a big believer in the “just let them be
kids” ethos, what is a 13 year old doing recording a song? She should concentrate
on being 13. If she wants to pursue a singing career, she should hone her craft
at school and in competitions. Also, forget the Katie Perry, Lady Gaga and
Justin Bieber garbage and start listening to people like Sarah Vaughn, Helen
O’Connell, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra.
Kids Say The Most Despicable
Things
From what I’ve seen lately, no one will do anything if a
bunch of kids are cursing their heads off in public.
Also, who ever thought it was a good idea to create the show
“Kids Say the Darnedest Things” in the first place? Fine brothers, think of
those vicious comments as similar to the content of the letters Art Linkletter
and Bill Cosby (remember that version?) would have received had communication
been easier and society not been as genteel, which leads into my next point.
The Fine brothers are members of a certain tribe which has a
not miniscule interest in popular media and American film production. For the
past few decades, fellow tribe members to the Fines have brought us “The
Simpsons”, “Family Guy”, “Beavis and Butt-head”, “South Park”, and we might as
well add to that mix Tom Green, “The Trailer Park Boys”, and any number of
films, TV shows and the like where people constantly insult each other and
treat each other like dirt, many of which, I hasten to add, appeal to children.
Then the Fine brothers have the nerve to despair over all the uncivil comments
their videos receive?
One also has to ask at this point how many of these bullies,
and even victims such as Amanda Todd and Rebecca Black, are growing up or grew
up in homes consisting of two married, opposite sex parents who sat down to
dinner every night with their children and asked them how their day went.
Furthermore, did those dinners consist of actual food or some take-out, home
delivered or processed, microwave-heated garbage.
Adults Say The Most Despicable
Things, Too
Nowadays, everyone who is engaged with others online in any
capacity is a media outlet. Media outlets require content and, on the internet
where things are available forever, you can’t just re-run or reprint content.
Thus, there is pressure to keep coming up with new content, every moment of
every hour one spends on social media every day. Thus, is it any wonder people
stoop to starting ugly baby forums or captioning photos from their workplace?
For further reading, I would recommend “Trust Me, I’m Lying:
confessions of a media manipulator” by Ryan Holiday.
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