Happy Saturday everyone!!! I was just doing my usual round of reading when I came across some very interesting reads at various blogspots. To say the least I was rather upset. Not a boiling mad, or ready to rant, but upset as in school teacher upset. It reminded me of what I used to see when I taught elementary school. It would start when one kid told on another, and being pissed off the other kid would make fun of the kid that told and tried to get everyone else to make fun of them. This thought made me think of the movie Mean Girls. If you haven't seen it, you should especially if you have a little girl. Because although the movie is funny and engaging, you really see how mean and cruel girls (or women) can be to each other.
I mean do we really have to be so crude with each other just because we have differing opinions or we "outed" someone on the Internet. For the life of me I thought we were all adults. What we're all disagreeing about is kinda stupid if you think about it. Seriously...the U.S. is on the brink of its first serious financial crisis since the Great Depression, people are loosing their homes everyday, our young men and women are giving their lives for us and we're about to vote in a president who will hopefully get us out of this mess and all some of us can do is snark about is the fact that Pennmommy was "outed" as a fake and how pissed they are about it. Come on...some families are trying to figure out whether or not they can put food on the table or if they will have enough money for gas this week and yet another site pops up making fun of people. Come on...grow up!!!
I think we can learn something from our children nowadays. We always tell our kids...don't be a bully, don't pick on people...yet here some are doing the exact opposite. What do they tell their kids when the kid walks in the room while they are laughing and saying, "Take that."
Why is it that some of us forget that we are talking about a TV show. Let me repeat that...A TV SHOW. None of what we say or do on the Internet is going to change Jon and Kate's mind. Why can't we just suck it up and admit to take the show at face value and not get so involved as to whether or not they photoshopped their picture. Or pouting in the corner because PennMommy is a fake. Why don't we practice what we preach to our children. To not bully, or call names, or make fun of people, but take these blogs as good honest grown up discussions among adults. I mean its gone from a lively debate to being outright vicious.
While I enjoy writing this blog I am concerned about someone taking this blog very seriously. What I mean by that is that I hope no one is offended by what is written here. I am writing my own two cents as part of a bigger discussion. I hope whoever reads these blogs continue to do so... I want you to and please feel free to leave me a comment. I enjoy reading them and writing back. I do not take the negative comments to heart because like so many other blogs this is my opinion..,please tell me yours.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant...I don't want it to be and I hope it didn't come off this way...but the latest blog really made me think about how we are treating each other. (And yes I do remember that I said that I would not say PM's name again...but I had to in order to make my point. I hated the fact I had to go back on what I said in a previous blog.)
Can we get back to discussing the show...the original reasons for these blogs in the first place?
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Amen sister ! I have NEVER commented on anyone's blog before, but reading what you wrote today, I felt compelled to let you know that I appreciate you taking the time to write what you did. Thanks.
Add my Amen to that as well!
Right on! Thanks for your blog.
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I just want to say I agree as well. I am so sick of reading all this negative stuff out there about them. What is the nee to bad mouth people? Especially this family. Im 22 and I dont have kids so I can not judge anyone for the way they parent because I dont know what I will be like. I may not agree with everything that they do but you never agree with everything that others do. To me what matters is the love and you can tell that they all really do love each other. So why do these women need to go ot and try to make these 2 people oiut to be so evil? We dont know them and even people in there family dont know what it is like to be them. So although somehting may seem odd to others you dont know what it is like to be in there position. And hey if I was them I can honestly say I would be doing what they are if it was offered to me. I mean people are judging them for doing speaking engagements and leaving the kids and so on but why has anyone not stoped and looked at it like this. They were given an oppertunity to not have to work a normal 9-5 job and put their kids in day care instead they are able to spend more time with there children and maybe only have to be gone 3 days a week. I mean dont we all agree that kids are only little for so long and this is better for these little kids to group up having there parents home. I mena think about it its hard when you have one or two kids and you work all day and then only get to see them for 3 or 4 hours before its off to bed. Can you imagine trying to spend quality time with eight in that amount of time? Yes I know there are people out there who do have to do that and I am sorry they werent given the oppertuntiy to do what Jon and Kate are because in my eyes its one that just cant be turned down. Okay I am done with my rant now.
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