12-10-2003, 11:09 AM
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"I may not always be perfect, but I'm always me."
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: In Sycamore's boxers
Posts: 1,341
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Quote:
Originally posted by Lady Sidhe
If a kid sees that her favorite singer lets a man beat her up over and over and keeps going back to him, what kind of idea is she going to have about what relationships should be like? If she sees her favorite singer dressing like a tramp and making all kinds of money for doing it, what's she going to think about what is and isn't acceptable dress? If a kid hears his favorite singer singing about killing cops and beating women, and sees him in the news getting arrested for assault, how will that affect his behavior? I know that we are our kids' first role models, but when they begin to be independent, they look to movie stars, sports stars, and musicians...and our movie stars, sports stars, and musicians make money out the wazoo while they're dressing like streetwalkers or being arrested for drugs, assault, murder, and other bad behavior. And lots of times, they get out of the charges. THEN they go platinum, and get a star. What's that telling our kids??
It's actually kind of sad, when I think about it....
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Quite honestly, this kind of thing reinforces one of the many, many reasons that I *don't* have kids and makes me appreciate all that MY parents did for me to keep me on the straight and narrow path (well...relatively straight and narrow path..heh!). 
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