Can the idiot Olympics be moved to a spinoff thread?
Which event? Reading comprehension? Understanding the fundamental lifestyle? Ability to express phonics? This thread has been one confused person after another from the first page.
they've sold a looooot of advertising on these people's shows. this is a financial disaster for them, I am sure.Â
I don't remember the timeline, but I thought they canceled Honey Boo Boo pretty quickly, didn't they?
I think so. But I think it's possible they'll keep the show if there's enough support shown for the Duggars. They can toss Josh aside and everyone can denounce him, and they'll still have plenty of fodder for the show with 18 other kids. Not like Mama June, who was a central figure in Honey Boo Boo. There was no way around keeping that show and not having her in it.
It's not on the same level at all, but even when the Gosselin family exploded, they turned it into a whole new show and made Jon out to be horrible.
I don't think they are going to cancel it. Which means I am going to have to give up Say Yes to the Dress, which I think is the only show I watch on TLC.
People magazine doesn't have a damn thing on their web site except the "apology." (Use of air quotes is completely justified here.) You wouldn't even really know what he was "apologizing for" if that was the only site you went to.
Oh wait - I just looked and now you have an article about Mike Huckabee expressing support for the family.
I don't think they are going to cancel it. Which means I am going to have to give up Say Yes to the Dress, which I think is the only show I watch on TLC.
People magazine doesn't have a damn thing on their web site except the "apology." (Use of air quotes is completely justified here.) You wouldn't even really know what he was "apologizing for" if that was the only site you went to.
Oh wait - I just looked and now you have an article about Mike Huckabee expressing support for the family.
I don't think they are going to cancel it. Which means I am going to have to give up Say Yes to the Dress, which I think is the only show I watch on TLC.
People magazine doesn't have a damn thing on their web site except the "apology." (Use of air quotes is completely justified here.) You wouldn't even really know what he was "apologizing for" if that was the only site you went to.
Oh wait - I just looked and now you have an article about Mike Huckabee expressing support for the family.
I know. I like the little couple and the wedding dress shows, but I'm giving them all up because the network is shit.
Which sucks because I enjoy vapid entertainment.
Eta: lest anyone pearl clutch, I am not asserting that the suckitude of not being able to watch people spend obscene sums of money on a white dress is 1. A major loss or 2. Remotely on par with dealing with sexual abuse/assault.
Jim Bob and Michelle let all of their children down in a most spectacular way. A teenage boy who molests his four year old sister is deeply and profoundly sick and in need of significant psychiatric help. It sounds like he went to his parents for help and their solution was to pray it away. The fact that they allowed him to continue to have access to their children is more depressing than I have words to express.
The sad reality is that he is likely to have more victims, probably his own children. You don't simply "grow out" of pedophilia. I am so worried for his poor babies.
YES. Hell, they went and manufactured MORE potential victims for him without skipping a beat.
I don't think they are going to cancel it. Which means I am going to have to give up Say Yes to the Dress, which I think is the only show I watch on TLC.
That's the only reason I like the network either. The little couple is good to watch too.
Honey Boo Boo wasn't, as I understand it, giving moral advice.
That show seemed more like making a spectacle of these backwards yokels. There was never a pedestal. The network was probably poised to swiftly address something that would inevitably happen that crossed their line from exploitanment to liability. I have a feeling TLC didn't have an exit strategy at the ready for the Duggars and they're working on crisis management now.
I don't think it's that hard to cancel a show and play some re-runs of some other shitty reality TV show in its place. The lack of a comment 24 hours later is bullshit. I just wish I watched something on TLC so I could stop. So, they suck at crisis management. What I have learned from "The Learning Channel" is that Christian white boys "mistakes" get swept under the rug. Oh, wait, I already knew that.
I don't think they are going to cancel it. Which means I am going to have to give up Say Yes to the Dress, which I think is the only show I watch on TLC.
People magazine doesn't have a damn thing on their web site except the "apology." (Use of air quotes is completely justified here.) You wouldn't even really know what he was "apologizing for" if that was the only site you went to.
Oh wait - I just looked and now you have an article about Mike Huckabee expressing support for the family.
I know. I like the little couple and the wedding dress shows, but I'm giving them all up because the network is shit.
Which sucks because I enjoy vapid entertainment.
Eta: lest anyone pearl clutch, I am not asserting that the suckitude of not being able to watch people spend obscene sums of money on a white dress is 1. A major loss or 2. Remotely on par with dealing with sexual abuse/assault.
I think my boycott is going to have to include everything owned by the parent company Discovery, which includes the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.
Interesting note - they also own the Oprah network.
Also, there is an American Heroes channel? Who knew.
The only way they are going to cancel it is if advertisers bail. And advertisers won't bail unless enough people are outraged. And from what I can see (outside of this site), not enough people are outraged. And the people who watch the show are really not outraged. "Boys are curious" and all that shit.
Honey Boo Boo wasn't, as I understand it, giving moral advice.
That show seemed more like making a spectacle of backwards yokels as exactly what they are. There was never a pedestal. The network was probably poised to swiftly address something that would inevitably happen with them that crossed the line from exploitanment to liability. I have a feeling TLC didn't have an exit strategy at the ready for the Duggars and they're working on crisis management now.
There have been rumors about something like this with Josh for years, and if it's true that CPS investigated them, or that there was more involvement with the police, in 2006, then TLC should have fucking known.
Apparently there is a Duggar marathon that is supposed to be playing right now on TLC but according to Instagram comments on Anna's photos they are showing the Little Couple. I am not home so I dont know if this is correct or not.
I hope it is and it is just the beginning of taking them off TV and having their show cancelled.
This is correct, I am home now and was scrolling through the guide and saw 19 kids listed and turned to it out of shock/curiosity, and yes, it's actually the little couple playing.
The only way they are going to cancel it is if advertisers bail. And advertisers won't bail unless enough people are outraged. And from what I can see (outside of this site), not enough people are outraged. And the people who watch the show are really not outraged. "Boys are curious" and all that shit.
IDK about that. If you check their FB page, there are tons and tons of people posting that it should be canceled. And they would be right. That family is vile.
I didn't want to speculate openly about this (guess I am now), but I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe I shouldn't have... I am reading a book about a girl escaping polygamy and it talks a lot about this and the prophet telling her to submit to her husband. Sorry if this was disrespectful.
I commented on someone's status and their friend was all "haven't you ever played doctor? Little boys are curious and want to sneak a peek or get a feel, I am a foster mom and all my boys did this. Little boys are just being boys"
I replied back that I have brothers and no, none of them ever touched me inappropriately or while I was asleep or against my will. Omg! And so many people sided with her that boys just do these things. Wtf!
A) 14 is old enough to not be a little boy. B) 14 is old enough to know right from wrong. C) Their parents majorly failed them by doing nothing. D) I let her know that she is continuing rape culture by saying boys will be boys. E) OMFG.
I can't. I cannot understand how ANYONE sees this as okay. "but he was 14! He has apologized! His sisters are okay" No.They.Are.Not. You know why the police reports that the children forgave him? Because that is probably what they were told to do. They were just tiny kids....whose parents didn't stand up for them.
This angers me so much and breaks my heart so much that people think since he was a "little kid", he can just go free now.
If this had been any other child, any other family, the internet would be all over this with "omg where were the parents?!" and "omg, that child should be kept away!" But everyone love's their duggers. Barf.
I highly doubt that the Duggars are not insignificant contributors to the Huckabee presidential circus.
I don't know why but it superdeeduper bugs me that the Duggars windfall of TV dollars will help someone try to become president.
It's not a rational thought I am having, but because I hate all the aforementioned, I don't care if it's rational or not.
Eh, it's Huckabee. They'd get more out of lightning their money on fire.
But yeah. I hate that they've used their notoriety to forward their bigoted agenda (Michelle and those robo calls last election still have me seeing red).
I commented on someone's status and their friend was all "haven't you ever played doctor? Little boys are curious and want to sneak a peek or get a feel, I am a foster mom and all my boys did this. Little boys are just being boys"
I replied back that I have brothers and no, none of them ever touched me inappropriately or while I was asleep or against my will. Omg! And so many people sided with her that boys just do these things. Wtf!
A) 14 is old enough to not be a little boy. B) 14 is old enough to know right from wrong. C) Their parents majorly failed them by doing nothing. D) I let her know that she is continuing rape culture by saying boys will be boys. E) OMFG.
I can't. I cannot understand how ANYONE sees this as okay. "but he was 14! He has apologized! His sisters are okay" No.They.Are.Not. You know why the police reports that the children forgave him? Because that is probably what they were told to do. They were just tiny kids....whose parents didn't stand up for them.
This angers me so much and breaks my heart so much that people think since he was a "little kid", he can just go free now.
If this had been any other child, any other family, the internet would be all over this with "omg where were the parents?!" and "omg, that child should be kept away!" But everyone love's their duggers. Barf.
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
BYE, MIKE HUCKABEE! BYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEE!!!!!
That being said, I have this happy imaginary line of thought where all of the Duggar girls and their fundie friends says, "Screw this! We're done!" and get their own reality show while they leave home, branch out and go to college, live in the real world, and have their horizons broadened and their bigotry vanquished while all the menfolk are left behind with no reality TV money. THAT is a show I would support.... On a different channel.
You should totally post this on TLC's facebook page.
I commented on someone's status and their friend was all "haven't you ever played doctor? Little boys are curious and want to sneak a peek or get a feel, I am a foster mom and all my boys did this. Little boys are just being boys"
I replied back that I have brothers and no, none of them ever touched me inappropriately or while I was asleep or against my will. Omg! And so many people sided with her that boys just do these things. Wtf!
A) 14 is old enough to not be a little boy. B) 14 is old enough to know right from wrong. C) Their parents majorly failed them by doing nothing. D) I let her know that she is continuing rape culture by saying boys will be boys. E) OMFG.
I can't. I cannot understand how ANYONE sees this as okay. "but he was 14! He has apologized! His sisters are okay" No.They.Are.Not. You know why the police reports that the children forgave him? Because that is probably what they were told to do. They were just tiny kids....whose parents didn't stand up for them.
This angers me so much and breaks my heart so much that people think since he was a "little kid", he can just go free now.
If this had been any other child, any other family, the internet would be all over this with "omg where were the parents?!" and "omg, that child should be kept away!" But everyone love's their duggers. Barf.
Playing doctor? Seriously? This is so so so so vile. Why are people like this protected?
I commented on someone's status and their friend was all "haven't you ever played doctor? Little boys are curious and want to sneak a peek or get a feel, I am a foster mom and all my boys did this. Little boys are just being boys"
I replied back that I have brothers and no, none of them ever touched me inappropriately or while I was asleep or against my will. Omg! And so many people sided with her that boys just do these things. Wtf!
A) 14 is old enough to not be a little boy. B) 14 is old enough to know right from wrong. C) Their parents majorly failed them by doing nothing. D) I let her know that she is continuing rape culture by saying boys will be boys. E) OMFG.
I can't. I cannot understand how ANYONE sees this as okay. "but he was 14! He has apologized! His sisters are okay" No.They.Are.Not. You know why the police reports that the children forgave him? Because that is probably what they were told to do. They were just tiny kids....whose parents didn't stand up for them.
This angers me so much and breaks my heart so much that people think since he was a "little kid", he can just go free now.
If this had been any other child, any other family, the internet would be all over this with "omg where were the parents?!" and "omg, that child should be kept away!" But everyone love's their duggers. Barf.
That would upset me so much that I'd report her.
It's incredibly alarming that she doesn't seem to grasp the difference between healthy, normal sexual curiosity/behavior and abusive or predatory sexual behavior. Touching your sisters while they're sleeping is not normal!