Recently on YouTube I made a comment about child abuse. My main point was that the show's advertisement promoted it, and I had lost interest in the show because the person being abused was a minor.
Cartoon or not, that isn't funny! I know children personally who are abused by their fathers, and I can't do a damn thing about it!
So excuse me if I don't laugh at something so stupid.
For God's sake, the show also promotes bestiality. It says people 14+ can watch it! Now I never wanted to be one of those people who takes time out of her day to comment negatively on something I clicked on in the first place. But time and again, this poor girl gets kicked, punched, shot...And the worst part is, people laugh! And they voted my comment down, even though my main point was, child abuse is wrong. I wasn't going to say anything at all, but as the video progressed and more and more bad shit happened, I just got really angry. PMSing didn't help...
But two people agree with me. That's pretty major, considering I started the thread almost two weeks ago. I'm glad two people have morals.
Now I don't care if they tell me to rot in hell where I belong. I don't care if they send me a message in Caps Lock. Why would I care about something so harmless? But child abuse is many things, and harmless is definitely not one of them. I fear for my friends' lives each and every day.
Seriously, how would those people feel if their parents and siblings pushed them down stairs, struck them, shot them and beat them every time they showed their face? Those people must have good parents, or at least parents who don't pay them any attention; because if they were being abused, they would have more heart. They would know exactly what it's like and they would hate it, too.
Nothing is worse than watching an innocent minor be abused by the one group of people who are supposed to love and care for her.
Well, there is one thing that's worse - knowing that so many people show their true colors, and laugh at something so horrible.
I just hope I am never like they are.
I assume you're talking about Family Guy?
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty crappy the way FG treats Meg. She's a character I can relate to, even though I have an awesome family. I think everyone can relate to feeling like no one cares, though, and that's why Meg matters. What makes her especially great is that she never gives up, even though she has NO ONE in the whole world. Her parents and brothers don't care about her, and she doesn't have friends, and yet she's always so cheerful and happy for her family when they succeed at something. Peter treats her like shit, and she tells him he's smart. Lois insults her when Meg compares her mother's old bedroom to her own -- something about trophies and pictures of friends -- and yet Meg encourages her mother to go ahead and do what she wants to do. I think Stewie actually did save Meg once, and I thought it was FG's greatest moment. Brian went to a dance with her, out of pity, but he got stupid-ass drunk and that was the only way he could defend her. He almost redeemed himself in that episode where Meg ends up in jail and he writes an article about how she faces every day with hope and optimism despite how terribly unfair people treat her . . .
I think that when the series ends someday, Meg should have her own episode: everyone apologizes and tells her they were wrong, and even though she still looks like Meg (because why should being skinny mean you're likeable?) she ends up successful . . . while Peter ends up with liver cancer because he drinks like a sewer, Lois ends up with some embarrassing STD or a drug problem (I can see it going either way), Brian gets taken down a few notches, Chris and Stewie end up embarrassed by their parents and proud of their sister, stuff like that. Stewie's already embarrassed by Peter and Lois, but I think Chris could be, too -- in several episodes, he was actually decent (about as decent as a brother can be) to Meg.