Just when I thought I'd seen the bottom of the barrel...
I considered not giving this issue any airplay for fear of being perceived as condoning it, but I decided to do so as a measure of my disgust with the culture of celebrity.
Apparently the nuptuals for disgraced teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and former student Vili Fualaau will be televised.
(Anyone wishing to play "Mrs. Robinson" in the background, please indulge.) For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, she is the teacher who had sex with the then 12 year-old Vili. He fathered two children with her. Of course she already had 4 kids with her husband.
There was a sensational trial, jail, parole, violation of parole, more jail, husband taking the 4 kids and moving to Alaska...
These two dumb bunnies are getting married. Entertainment Tonight bought the rights to the May event. The sad thing is, this event will be in high demand at Trailer Parks all across North America. What would possess them to do such a thing? I won't get into the debate about the moral issues about their relationship, but considering the stigma attached to the whole thing, money had to be a factor. Shit, why not give her her own talk show? She could guest host for Jerry Springer, maybe?
Just seems like televising this event and bringing it all back in the limelight just re-opens a lot of wounds. I can't imagine how her husband feels (having been cuckolded by a 12 y/o), but I've got a pretty good idea what her kids are going through. Do they need this? Probably not. Pretty sure the rest of her family isn't thrilled about it either.
This is like giving Jean Chretien the Order of Canada...or Pol Pot a posthumous award for Human Rights...or Josef Stalin, for that matter...why do we condone and often tacitly celebrate bad behaviour?
2 comments:
Unfortunately because it sells. Sells big time. People love to see smut & scum and all low forms of life. Makes them feel superior when really it shouldn't.
I'm with you on this one.
Hmmm. I won't comment on Jean Chretien. I won't comment on my man Springer. I will comment on the sick perversion that this whole thing is. North Americans as a whole have too much damn time on their hands. But, more importantly, generations have let too much good moral ground slip from the next generation following them.
How the hell could ANYONE a)want to have anything to do with this story for profit and b)want to waste time out of their life to watch a story about it?
It is so sad when these things happen and it actually makes you long for some stricter laws in the land like those places we love to vilify.
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