Today myspace was hit with a bunch of lawsuits for facilitating child predatory activities - article.  I don’t know if that’s the exact legal term, but basically a few young girls met up with guys they met on myspace, and got assaulted in numerous ways.

now, there is clearly fault that lies with the predators, many of which have prior records and seem like otherwise unsavory individuals.  despicable guys to be sure.  there is no excusing these guys for their activities, and that is that.

with that said however, how does myspace come into the picture?  is it really myspace’s fault that these kids did not have enough sense to meet up with these guys in the first place? 

I mean, to me this seems like blaming the lollipop, in the case of strangers with candy.  sure, the lollipop plays a role, but i mean, shouldn’t the kid have some sense not to get into the van in the first place?

it’s just a disturbing trend that parents are suing online communities, rather than parenting their kids in the first place.  if anything, the parents should be held liable, just like those parents who leave their five year old’s at home while they go to vegas. 

i just can’t imagine letting your kids go unsupervised to meet up with some guy they met on the internet - then making myspace the scapegoat.    true, you can’t monitor your kids all the time, but that’s why you have basic rules like ‘don’t talk to strangers.’  i mean, shouldn’t we at least update these for the internet age. like:

1.  don’t whore yourself out on myspace

2.  if you do whore yourself out on myspace, don’t meet up with the hundreds of guys who are going to contact you.

so simple.

i mean, it’s easy to look at these young girls and say that they were taken advantage of and they have been victimized - and to a large extent that is very true.  but at the same time, it takes a certain girl to meet up with a stranger they meet online - and i’m guessing these girls have the myspace profiles with pics of them making out with other girls, gratuitous cleavage shots, pics of simulated fellatio, and comments by a bunch of dudes with their shirts off saying ‘call me honey’ - i mean, clearly we’re not dealing with the teddy bear background ‘my interests are: loving jesus’ bunch here.

fine, lets assume that kids are naive - then parents should play a role in monitoring their kid’s activities, making sure they understand when they’re whoring themselves out (and lets be clear here:  girls know how to get attention.  girls, even young ones, know what they’re doing when they wear miniskirts up to their ass and cleavage showing tops.  the deal with parents pretending that their daughters are so innocent is ridiculously naive, particularly when their idols are showing up at clubs with no underwear in see-thru dresses.  i mean, wake up), why they should not do it, and why they should not meet up with any guys who try to hook up with them, after seeing their slutty pics.

so f’ing easy.

i mean, these parents are acting like they’ve taken every step in life to ensure that their kids got the best possible opportunity, then bam, myspace comes and their daughters are doped up getting turned out in a hotel that charges by the hour.  like, ‘oh yeah, my julie is a straight A student, never gets in trouble, but don’t let her near a computer otherwise you’ll find her on hollywood blvd in a hot pink mini with sores on her lips.’

come on.

parents:  if your 14 year olds are putting up inappropriate pics online and meeting up with guys online to get f’ed, that’s because they’re whores.  and they’re not whores because the evil myspace fairy flew threw their bedroom window one night and tapped them on the head with the magic whore wand (i know because i’ve looked for these whore wands - nowhere to be found) - they’re whores because you raised them as whores. 

and don’t give me the ‘but i work two jobs and i don’t have time to monitor everything my kids do’ bs.  that is why god created abortions.  and if you do have these kids, then realize that no matter what excuse you give, no matter how little time you have, no matter how many jobs you work, neglecting your kids will result in a case of teenage whorism.  so step up, stop blaming the movies, or violence on tv or video games or the Internet, and do your fucking job.

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