“…Stop making stupid people famous”
So, unless you’ve been asleep on the internet, you probably know about the mugshot that went viral. The convicted felon that everyone was swooning over, saying he is “too pretty” to be in jail, etc. Actually, no, he isn’t too pretty to be in jail, not if he committed crimes. He is right where he belongs.
However, the news on this person now is that apparently, he’s getting a modeling agent and modeling gigs from behind bars.
What?
He has mug shots going back 12 years.
So WHAT kind of message does this send to young kids? It’s ok to be a felon, just be pretty, you’ll get a good job.
Just like the other messages we have sent out, already:
It’s ok to make sex tapes, just have some warped superficial sense of pretty, you’ll be famous and rich.
It’s ok to maybe rape young girls and at the very least do questionable things with them, so long as you are an R&B music star.
And…
It’s ok to abuse animals, you’ll still make millions of dollars and be a hero playing football.
(No! It really isn’t. It is CRIMINAL that man was allowed back to play professional football. Shame on the entire NFL and every fan who watches it and endorsed that.)
No wonder kids feel it’s ok to lack ambition and be utterly disrespectful to themselves, authority, the law and each other. Society shows them THAT is what gets rewarded.
You REALLY can’t complain about society going to hell in a hand-basket when it’s your own hand carrying the basket.
The Impossible Unicorn 
This post is the exact reason I have come to call what we are now living in the Honey Boo Boo society. I could and have gone on and on about the bane of the news media on our lives and reality television is so equally to blame, though to be fair, it is “us” that continues to watch and continues to give ratings and infamy to these people. It’s disgusting really what we as a society have become, so much the our President of the United States of America thought it appropriate to joke about crack being served in pies at the White House.
I just walked unto the room and there was an afternoon newsmagazine on the TV with how to segments… “how to brush your teeth”, “how to wash your face”…. REALLY??? We’ve come to this????
*facepalm*
When you are more concerned with your social media presence than parenting your children then yes, I can see how there would be a need for articles such as these.
Point.
But sadly, such deliberately oblivious behaviors are not limited to people with children.
It’s difficult to find well-informed people about this
subject, but you seem like you know what you’re talking about!
Thanks