Myrape
Friday, January 19, 2007

Fueled by the ongoing media fear campaign against Myspace, four ignoramus families filed a landmark "blame the vehicle for I’m an innocent parent of innocent kids" lawsuit against the social networking giant.

Perhaps these same parents should also sue the sidewalk for allowing their kids to walk unattended to the perpetrators houses. Or maybe, they’d take up case with the public transportation method used by these kids to go meet their molesters.

To me, this case wreaks of callous faulty parenting. These parents had no clue that their daughters are going to meet legal aged adults, and they’re upset about it. They needed someone to blame, and since Myspace is spanked daily by the media they are an easy target. Also, it probably does not hurt that they are privy to the bankroll amounts backing Myspace. A little green will make their daughters molestation sting so much less.

Perhaps if these parents had more awareness of what their kids were doing in their free time they might have prevented such a horrible event. Perhaps not. But if one thinks about social networking, or the internet in general, it is an area that parents can have more control/awareness of their kids activity. More so than older, traditional rape locales, such as the bowling alley, the skating rink, and the all to infamous "under the football bleacher stands rapery" (everyone knows this is a rape hotbed). The internet is a place they can monitor, right from their own home. It's interesting that it has become a whipping boy of law suits by parents who claim to feel "helpless" from it.

What I’m trying to say is these lawsuits are bullshit, and I’m ashamed of our legal system for even entertaining them.

Myspace is merely the vehicle for two people to meet.

And I’m not just saying this because I met my wife there.

Labels: lawsuit, myspace, rape