Goooood morning internets,
I thought I would just take a bit of time to blog about something that I found so disgusting it rendered me speechless (for a few minutes anyway 
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What is wrong with so many mothers in the world today? They seem to think that because they give birth to another human being, that they have the right to do whatever they want with their children..
To all mothers and fathers out there, read this, and etch it into your brain ::
CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS TOO!!
They are human beings, and they have rights to their own bodies.. I am writing about this because of two events that deeply upset me…
The first one happened on twitter.. One of my twitter friends (@mr_atheist) was debating with a woman about circumcision and this woman decided to respond to him with the following :: ‘Did you know that it is MY child and that makes it MY choice?’.
No.. No it is NOT your choice, or any other parents’ choice. EVER. It is your child, but NOT your body. It is their body and therefore they should be allowed to make their own decisions about it when they are old enough to do so.. NOBODY has the right to do this to anyone else.
Of course, with some things, you do need to make decisions for your child, aka – what food they should eat, etc etc.. But to subject them to surgical procedures that are NOT NECESSARY AT ALL is just cruel and takes away their own individual rights. There is nothing more shameful than a parent who is not capable of recognising the basic human rights of their own offspring…
This leads me to the next part of my rant..
A popular Aussie radio show hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O have a regular segment in which a person is hooked up to a lie detector and is asked various questions posed to them by a friend or partner or parent etc etc.. Yesterday, in their infinite wisdom, they decided to interrogate a 14 year old child about her sex life (against her will by the way) on the request of her mother. The segment backfired on them when the child broke down, admitting she was raped at 12 years of age.. This has of course sparked public outrage, but some people are trying to move the blame away from Kyle and Jackie to the producers and the mother..
(you can hear the segment here :: http://media.news.com.au/multimedia/mediaplayer/main/index.html?id=1285)
Lets make something clear. The Blame lies with ALL OF THEM. It is NEVER EVER acceptable to interrogate a CHILD about her sex life in a public setting. The segment was a sickening act to start with, and I would have been revolted even if there was no rape admission. The fact that the child did come out with this bit of information just made the whole scenario even more tragic.
What kind of parent does that to their child? When asked if the girl had received counselling, the mother admitted that she had not. What a disgusting woman! Her child was raped! The mother KNEW about this at the time and did NOTHING to help her daughter. Instead, she puts the girl in a vulnerable position, in which she AGAIN is forced to endure emotional suffering for the sake of winning tickets to a PINK concert.
The producers were completely stupid for approving the questions in the first place. We are talking about a CHILD! You should NEVER ask a 14 year old child about her sex life on a radio show. period.
As for Kyle and Jackie – Are you both completely STUPID? I couldn’t care less if those questions were pre-approved. If you had ANY moral compass at all, you would have decided that to even begin the segment would have been completely and utterly inappropriate. The blame lies with Kyle, Jackie, the mother and the producers. I don’t care what efforts you make to dodge the heat, what you did was WRONG!
On top of this, instead of apologising, Kyle spewed out a bunch of pathetic excuses in his blog, in which he of course tries to lay the blame on everyone but himself.
(you can see his rubbishy post here http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-sandilands-girls-rape-revelation-stunned-me/)
I really feel for the girl that was exploited and embarassed by the segment. She has now had to suffer TWICE for a horrific action that was never her fault. I sincerely hope that the poor girl gets the help she needs in order to get through this trauma, and I hope that the mother gets in A LOT of trouble for failing to support her child. I hope that Kyle and Jackie take a long hard look at what they have done and realise that interrogating a vulnerable child like that is never EVER ok.
Anyhoo, time for me to get active and seize the day.
Have a good one,
1azylizzie xo
Well said lizzie. I fail to understand why this guy hasn’t yet been taken off the air, and I fail to understand why anyone would want to listen a show hosted by him.
Agreed