Today, official and media distortions, particularly about teen sex and violence, are one and the same. Startling is the case of teenage mothers that more than 70% of the time are impregnated by males 20 years or older. It’s a shame that the “hyper sexed teen” image is made public while obscuring the statutory rape portion of the equation. The media has done a good job of leading the public astray, so as not to highlight a large blemish in the American façade. In this land most news consumers are adults, and kids can’t vote.
The teenage time bomb hypothesis is cast aside by Mike Males, but James Alan Fox’s view of teenagers as temporary sociopaths-impulsive and immature isn’t that far off the mark. “If teens have easy access to guns and drugs they can be extremely dangerous.” Though Columbine and other school-site shootings proved that there are killer kids, that wasn’t the entire point Fox was making. The ability of almost anybody to easily acquire guns and drugs makes them extremely dangerous. The proliferation of guns isn’t just a liberal explanation for violence, it makes common sense that if guns are easy to come by and if other serious problems, like poverty or drug addiction, inflict a person they are potential time bombs.
Man, chapter 8 was disturbing. Sure the title, Nymphet Fantasies, gets the creepy ball rolling but I never thought it was going to be some upright about a so-called subculture phenomenon. The article gives monetary figures that prove that child beauty pageants are truly an entire cultural concern. To have corporations sponsoring what a former stage mother was repulsed by is disconcerting. How parents of these kids justify their participation is perhaps the worst since it lends credence that we are a culture that want to be successful at all costs, even exploiting our children.
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I think that the book gives the example of JonBenet for the sensational factor, we all know her name, we all know her story. We would all probably agree that it is a sad story and that parents who take pageants too far could be considered abusive. I dont believe that all kids in pageants have a story like hers or that all parents should be judged for signing their children up for pageants. The book said that California, Florida and New York have the most pageants. These states arguably produce the highest paid, most famous models who have to start somewhere. Yes, parents can take it too far... do ALL parents take it too far and should pageants be illegal? No.
ReplyDelete“If teens have easy access to guns and drugs they can be extremely dangerous.” Though Columbine and other school-site shootings proved that there are killer kids, that wasn’t the entire point Fox was making. The ability of almost anybody to easily acquire guns and drugs makes them extremely dangerous. The proliferation of guns isn’t just a liberal explanation for violence, it makes common sense that if guns are easy to come by and if other serious problems, like poverty or drug addiction, inflict a person they are potential time bombs."
ReplyDeleteGood point. enough said.