JonBenet: A Commentary

[30gAy]

JonBenet, A Commentary



A Ranting Commentary by 30-gAy:



War in the mideast? ?heard it. Growing Federal budget deficit? ?whatever. International terrorism? ?yawn. Rising Insurance and Interest Rates?-please.



Finally, the world?s media has woken up and given us a news story we can sink our teeth into! JonBenet our savior from boredom! St. JonBenet of Ark as I like to refer to her. Child beauty stars, murder, pedophilia ? the case has it all.



It goes beyond just the obvious however. I am one who believes that so many of the world?s problems stem from the unresolved JonBenet case. Did we hear of terrorism prior to her murder? We were surely running a record budget surplus at the time. The world was at peace.



If we could just get to the bottom of this unsolved mystery them I believe all of these issues will just go away. That?s why I am glad that every media outlet in America has turned to the JonBenet case full time. What?s the point of discussing anything else?



Few people realize that the Sunni-Shiite split that is currently ravaging Iraq began over a quarrel over who killed JonBenet.



She was working on, and most believe was close to discovering a cure for AIDS before her untimely death.



I felt the weight of a decade of bad news stories fall from my shoulders as I gleefully turned from ABC, to MSNBC, to FOX, (and yes it was even on NPR this morning) and watched the all JonBenet, all station, all the time coverage.



I?m going to cut this story short, as I need to head over to my favorite news websites (the same ones I haven?t looked at in months because of the blah-blah mideast crap) so I can soak up more of the JonBenet bacchanalia.

 

[Cheering472]

Soak it up, as soon as another blonde blue eyed girl goes missing somewhere, THAT will be the only news available 24/7. Sad but true. I agree it should certainly be reported, but this is crazy.

 

[Hollibird]

BUt think of how many other kids have been raped and abused since the cops missed it 10 years ago and assumed it was the parents. at least he can't hurt anyone anymore. what a freak! his eyes scare the sh** out of me!

 

[Cheering472]

He's scary that's for sure. I'm still not convinced he's the killer. He may just be after exactly what he's getting from the media, attention. Alot of his story doesn't make sense. He may well be guilty,and I hope so, but I want to see what the DNA tests say.

 

[Jdarg]

I guess it was the freak show aspect of this story- at least it was a freak show to me. Parents who pile makeup on a child not much older than my daughter, make her prance around on stages, and basically throw her to the predatory wolves have some real parenting issues and they were a People magazine wet dream. That poor little girl's life before this tragedy totally disgusted me.

I just shake my head when I think of the recent popularity of girls' activities like these pageants and and now, the "dance team". Dance team is a perfect example (actually cheerleading too lately). If your daughter is going to wear clothes that look like a stripper's, dance like a pole dancer, and generally look old beyond her years, then nobody should be very surprised when she attracts "unwanted" attention. What kind of attention do you really think she should be getting? Recruitment to Bible school?? Let's start the hot babysitter jokes now.

We went to a 6th grade open house when Will started middle school. The "dance team" was part of the floor show. Sixth, seventh and eight grades girls in spandex hot pants, tight tank tops, bare midriffs, all well endowed. We were laughing (albeit ruefully) with some other parents of boys- how are we supposed to tell our boys not to "touch that"? My God- these girls have practically put themselves on a platter. The cheerleading routines aren't any better- yuck. What a mixed message we send our kids about sex.:shock:

 

[Teresa]

some very good and insightful points there Mr 30gay man.

just how does the media decide to zero in on certain horrible cases (JonBenet, Natalie/Aruba, etc) when there are so many such incidents around the world just as sad and terrible... folks just flock to it. now, OJ - that was a good all around scandal that was well-deserving of all the media hype... :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

[Bob]

I guess it was the freak show aspect of this story- at least it was a freak show to me. Parents who pile makeup on a child not much older than my daughter, make her prance around on stages, and basically throw her to the predatory wolves have some real parenting issues and they were a People magazine wet dream. That poor little girl's life before this tragedy totally disgusted me.

I just shake my head when I think of the recent popularity of girls' activities like these pageants and and now, the "dance team". Dance team is a perfect example (actually cheerleading too lately). If your daughter is going to wear clothes that look like a stripper's, dance like a pole dancer, and generally look old beyond her years, then nobody should be very surprised when she attracts "unwanted" attention. What kind of attention do you really think she should be getting? Recruitment to Bible school?? Let's start the hot babysitter jokes now.

We went to a 6th grade open house when Will started middle school. The "dance team" was part of the floor show. Sixth, seventh and eight grades girls in spandex hot pants, tight tank tops, bare midriffs, all well endowed. We were laughing (albeit ruefully) with some other parents of boys- how are we supposed to tell our boys not to "touch that"? My God- these girls have practically put themselves on a platter. The cheerleading routines aren't any better- yuck. What a mixed message we send our kids about sex.:shock:

Patricia Ramsey was Miss West Virginia in 1977. I don't think your views about her mother are valid.

 

[Jdarg]

Patricia Ramsey was Miss West Virginia in 1977. I don't think your views about her mother are valid.

I'm confused Bob- are you being funny? Or are you making the point that JonBenet didn't have a chance to NOT be an exploited pageant child because it was a family pattern??

 

[Cil]

There has always been a beauty pageant culture, and there have always been stage mothers.
But the sexualizing of very young girls is relatively new.
(We won't go into forced prostitution, that's a whole other category.)

It is partly marketing in our jaded,consumer-driven, indulged society--I mean, when 9 year hollaback girl wannabes are buying thong underwear, maybe it's time to stop and take a deep breath (and take a break from MTV or 'Desperate Housewives.' Better yet, simply turn off the TV.)

Back when the JonBenet murder happened, the media frenzy that came along with it did produce an outraged backlash. People protested that violence to children happens *every single day* while in the media, it was all JonBenet all the time.
Some of you might remember Girl X, the young housing project girl in Chicago. On Jan 9, 1997, she was raped, beaten and poisoned. She survived her brutal attack but is blind and paralyzed. Her plight did not receive the breathless national attention that a murdered beauty queen in Boulder, Colorado did.

America has a short attention span. No doubt the exploitation of JonBenet's mysterious story sells a lot of advertising.
The media, sad to say, give us what we want.

Me, I am following the pull-out in Lebanon and scratching my head over the President of Iran's blog. I will certainly be paying attention to the upcoming elections and the recent terrorist arrests.

But I also will likely be checking out the latest installment of the Ramsey case.

 

[Bob]

I'm confused Bob- are you being funny? Or are you making the point that JonBenet didn't have a chance to NOT be an exploited pageant child because it was a family pattern??

Just a late night thought. The whole five and dime pschychobabble about pageant abuse was used as a justification to make the Ramseys guilty in the public eye when law enforcement failed in their task to find the perpetrator. The Ramseys did not deserve what came of losing their daughter or their reputations. The Ramseys were normal, above average, people. Mrs. Ramsey was obviously a beautiful woman who had success in the paegent venue, and thought her daughter could do the same. This, in my mind, is no more abusive than any parent involving any child in a sport or activity. I'm tired of the talk of exploitation/sexuality linkage. This is what society does in the America. It's what we are good at, either at work or watching Oprah/Dr. Phil at home. I think the thread with the longest legs on this message board may have been about the penis cake[very funny!] If you want to rant about abuse, look at those poor, robotic girls deprived of a childhood in gymnastics competition. The Ramsey case is huge because the family and victim were white, wealthy, and pretty. All the extrapolation from the crime forward is, in the words of George Carlin, "sick American s--t".