Miss America Trash-Talks Videogames
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So she'll trash videogames and we'll trash beauty contests. The universe is just as it should be, is it not?
Besides, I think any child whose guardians would take parenting advice from 20-something Miss America is in for an interesting youth...
Besides, I think any child whose guardians would take parenting advice from 20-something Miss America is in for an interesting youth...
The girl putting the crown on is much hotter in my opinion.
Anyways, where i live the streets are worse for children than video games.
Anyways, where i live the streets are worse for children than video games.
yeah it shows you can be pretty and dumb as a doorknob at the same timeJeanLuc761 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
remember this lady? yeah on the local radio station i listen to were ragging on her for a good twenty minutes and could not believe that people are that dense
No.
Some people know who you are because you were born with a nice face, no one cares about your opinions, Miss America. Keep your mouth shut and just keep smiling.
Some people know who you are because you were born with a nice face, no one cares about your opinions, Miss America. Keep your mouth shut and just keep smiling.
...and this coming from the girl who probably had to suck of hundreds of guys to get that title, the horse faced slut...
Ohhh because she turned out really successful and intelligentAndy Chalk said:
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Heh, alright she's just ignorant. Even so it annoys me
To me it sounds like her bandwagoning on a current issue supported by the administration. A lot of what she is saying is parroting comments by Barack Obama.
Understand that unless she's outed as a Lesbian or something (referance to an older issue which caused problems for another winner if I remember), being Miss America is about more than the pageant itself. The person with that title spends a year travelling around and speaking on differant events and such. By jumping on this issue it makes her a potential commodity for those people currently in power. If she was say to SUPPORT video games, the odds of the goverment using her as an envoy or something reduce dramatically, and in general I can't think of the video game industry ever having tried to recruit a Miss America or similar celebrity (which is a bit differant than being a model or porn star) as a spokesperson.
At any rate, it doesn't surprise me. On a certain level I actually AGREE with the central issue of physical fitness. I do not however think video games are the culprit, rather I think it's society as a whole. Even if there were no video games of any sort, kids STILL wouldn't be going outside to play like they used to. With both parents working adult supervision is a problem. The cost of all our freedoms is plenty of street crime with criminals, perverts, and whack jobs able to run around everywhere more or less freely because the requirements to take someone off the street are pretty high. Children wind up missing doing simple things like walking home from school every day. Not to mention the fact that many communities have passed laws that prohibit children from walking the streets unattended (pretty much the evolution of the old man screaming for kids to get off his lawn).
I'd question this lady's claims, and if they are true she had a rare and special oppertunity, and probably got very lucky besides.
Video Games are little more than the latest in a long line of scapegoats for the current problems with youth. Comics, Rock Music, and other things have been blamed through the years just as vehemently. In reality such scapegoats exist because the big problems are hard to deal with.
Let me put it this way, let's say you want to make your neighborhood safer for kids to wander around in, so they can have something resembling the Norman Rockwell ideal childhood. With a safer neighborhood, things like adult supervision become less of an issue.
Well, then it comes down to the fact that all of these wierdos have rights, and all of a sudden the same democrats and liberals doing the whining will get all up in arms as soon as you start trying to create standards that cause people to get arrested or infringe on their freedoms. Oh sure, some guy might be a wierd child perv, but unless you can actually PROVE he has kiddie porn or has attacked a child, you can't do anything about him. Try and enforce it so that kids can come and play on the blacktop instead of young adults hanging around gambling and selling drugs while they shoot hoops, and next thing you know you've got all kinds of people screaming about public space, or depending on the situation maybe even racism. That due who hangs out on the street corner or whatever, that everyone knows sells crack, is still there because under our laws knowing is not enough you have to be able to prove it, and that can be difficult to do given all the rules, loopholes, and ways even a dullard can make it difficult to be caught in a legal sense.
Address that kind of issue, among others, and you make a differance. Nobody will though because it's too big, and too ambigious. Video Games are small, aren't going to fight back, and don't cause legal and moral contridictions. After all when you deal with a liberal who fought for all those civil liberties, trying to get him to admit he made a mistake when the results are kids not being able to safely walk the streets in most places can be VERY difficult. Most would prefer to just avoid the whole thing... and truthfully video games are a good scapegoat for both parties.
Understand that unless she's outed as a Lesbian or something (referance to an older issue which caused problems for another winner if I remember), being Miss America is about more than the pageant itself. The person with that title spends a year travelling around and speaking on differant events and such. By jumping on this issue it makes her a potential commodity for those people currently in power. If she was say to SUPPORT video games, the odds of the goverment using her as an envoy or something reduce dramatically, and in general I can't think of the video game industry ever having tried to recruit a Miss America or similar celebrity (which is a bit differant than being a model or porn star) as a spokesperson.
At any rate, it doesn't surprise me. On a certain level I actually AGREE with the central issue of physical fitness. I do not however think video games are the culprit, rather I think it's society as a whole. Even if there were no video games of any sort, kids STILL wouldn't be going outside to play like they used to. With both parents working adult supervision is a problem. The cost of all our freedoms is plenty of street crime with criminals, perverts, and whack jobs able to run around everywhere more or less freely because the requirements to take someone off the street are pretty high. Children wind up missing doing simple things like walking home from school every day. Not to mention the fact that many communities have passed laws that prohibit children from walking the streets unattended (pretty much the evolution of the old man screaming for kids to get off his lawn).
I'd question this lady's claims, and if they are true she had a rare and special oppertunity, and probably got very lucky besides.
Video Games are little more than the latest in a long line of scapegoats for the current problems with youth. Comics, Rock Music, and other things have been blamed through the years just as vehemently. In reality such scapegoats exist because the big problems are hard to deal with.
Let me put it this way, let's say you want to make your neighborhood safer for kids to wander around in, so they can have something resembling the Norman Rockwell ideal childhood. With a safer neighborhood, things like adult supervision become less of an issue.
Well, then it comes down to the fact that all of these wierdos have rights, and all of a sudden the same democrats and liberals doing the whining will get all up in arms as soon as you start trying to create standards that cause people to get arrested or infringe on their freedoms. Oh sure, some guy might be a wierd child perv, but unless you can actually PROVE he has kiddie porn or has attacked a child, you can't do anything about him. Try and enforce it so that kids can come and play on the blacktop instead of young adults hanging around gambling and selling drugs while they shoot hoops, and next thing you know you've got all kinds of people screaming about public space, or depending on the situation maybe even racism. That due who hangs out on the street corner or whatever, that everyone knows sells crack, is still there because under our laws knowing is not enough you have to be able to prove it, and that can be difficult to do given all the rules, loopholes, and ways even a dullard can make it difficult to be caught in a legal sense.
Address that kind of issue, among others, and you make a differance. Nobody will though because it's too big, and too ambigious. Video Games are small, aren't going to fight back, and don't cause legal and moral contridictions. After all when you deal with a liberal who fought for all those civil liberties, trying to get him to admit he made a mistake when the results are kids not being able to safely walk the streets in most places can be VERY difficult. Most would prefer to just avoid the whole thing... and truthfully video games are a good scapegoat for both parties.
^yup. I feel the blame should be placed on the lazy parrents rather than the videogames.rockytheboxer said:
^lol. Branches, the eyes natural enemy!
^ Agreed. Although I played SonicLono Shrugged said:
It would
Again, I say we need a committee for this sorta thing. The games industry is large enough now that it can do some serious damage to public opinion, if only it would quite being so segregated.
You good sir, have just expressed the most well thought out opinion I've heard on this subject yet(coming from the internet at least).Therumancer said:
Again, I say we need a committee for this sorta thing. The games industry is large enough now that it can do some serious damage to public opinion, if only it would quite being so segregated.
I don't think she was specifically slagging games really, just pumping out the bog standard messages of how the old days were the best (which they were) and video games got caught in the cross fire.
And anyway, she'll slag off are games, we'll slag off her religion and country and President, she'll slag of are social skills, and so on and so forth until one of us gets bored or dies.
And anyway, she'll slag off are games, we'll slag off her religion and country and President, she'll slag of are social skills, and so on and so forth until one of us gets bored or dies.
STICKS??? I have no idea what they are since I play video games indoors, nasty outside is nasty.
What the heck is up with all this outside nonsense? I keep hearing this and wondering what the hell is going through people's heads. You need to make friends, not go outside. I can go outside and sit on the ground and get cold/hot. That's totally better than sitting in front of the TV. Uh-huh.
I mean, what do they want from us? When I was a child, if I were to do something stupid like sit around outside of my house I'd look like an idiot. I can only go down that slide so many times or throw that basketball into the net so many times before I've done it enough. Doing it alone is excruciating. Boring.
So, I say we quit with this outside nonsense. Start telling kids to go make friends instead of being loners. Only, there's one problem with that. Most kids already do that by default. It's the other kids who reject them for being who they are. So how can this situation be remedied? I dunno', but sending our kids out in the middle of the goddamn street like Ms. America wants to do is not going to cut it.
I remember being a kid. Doing something other than playing by myself was a rarity because I couldn't make friends. I don't know why. It just didn't work for me. I certainly tried, but it just never came into fruition. All the way through school that had been a problem. It's still a problem now, I suppose. I had to find a way to entertain myself. What was I supposed to do? Ms. America would send me outside to huff car fumes. I'm sure I'd be a much better person if I had a mother like that. Certainly. What I DID do was pick up some video games and actually entertain myself. It's probably how I managed to not go completely batshit nutty.
The only thing I did was play by myself. It wasn't always video games, but it very often was. I regret I was never able to make any friends, but I did the best I could with what I had. I can't blame any child for being in the same situation as I had been in. The best we can do for our children is to encourage them to make friends at school and do our best to let our children get together with them. (Responsibly, of course. Don't want your kids going out and doing drugs and all that.)
Which brings up another point. Why are we always so concerned with getting our children away from the home? If they're at home we know they aren't getting high or doing irresponsible things that kids shouldn't be doing. Ah, screw it.
I mean, what do they want from us? When I was a child, if I were to do something stupid like sit around outside of my house I'd look like an idiot. I can only go down that slide so many times or throw that basketball into the net so many times before I've done it enough. Doing it alone is excruciating. Boring.
So, I say we quit with this outside nonsense. Start telling kids to go make friends instead of being loners. Only, there's one problem with that. Most kids already do that by default. It's the other kids who reject them for being who they are. So how can this situation be remedied? I dunno', but sending our kids out in the middle of the goddamn street like Ms. America wants to do is not going to cut it.
I remember being a kid. Doing something other than playing by myself was a rarity because I couldn't make friends. I don't know why. It just didn't work for me. I certainly tried, but it just never came into fruition. All the way through school that had been a problem. It's still a problem now, I suppose. I had to find a way to entertain myself. What was I supposed to do? Ms. America would send me outside to huff car fumes. I'm sure I'd be a much better person if I had a mother like that. Certainly. What I DID do was pick up some video games and actually entertain myself. It's probably how I managed to not go completely batshit nutty.
The only thing I did was play by myself. It wasn't always video games, but it very often was. I regret I was never able to make any friends, but I did the best I could with what I had. I can't blame any child for being in the same situation as I had been in. The best we can do for our children is to encourage them to make friends at school and do our best to let our children get together with them. (Responsibly, of course. Don't want your kids going out and doing drugs and all that.)
Which brings up another point. Why are we always so concerned with getting our children away from the home? If they're at home we know they aren't getting high or doing irresponsible things that kids shouldn't be doing. Ah, screw it.