Christy's Soapbox

I've decided to bless you guys with a new feature called, "Christy's soapbox." I will discuss things that just really "ERK" me...ok so I've lost half of my audience because all of my family members just shut this page.....whatever.

Dateline NBC has been doing a show for the past two years they call, "To Catch A Predator." Basically, they get men to talk to decoys posing at 12-14 year old girls, or in some cases boys. Most of these disgusting men chatting with little kids online will send them photos of their genitals before meeting them. All of them carry on sexually graphic conversations telling them what their intentions are and what they want from the children. They arrange a time to meet them at their home and the cameras are there to film the men giving their excuses instead.

They've been doing this show now for the past two years and nearly everyone has seen it. Yet, they still come. Doctors, Teachers, Rabbis, Marines...a guy who worked for Homeland Security even showed up. We all sit stunned and amazed this sickening behavior is so prevalent in our society...but why are we so shocked?

We (as a society) have turned our little girls into sexual objects. We put 12 year old little girls on stage with makeup and provocative clothes and have them sing seductively to the camera. We (again as a society) view our young female actresses through a sexual camera angle. The magazines and talk show "size them up." There was a website with a countdown to when the Olsen twins were "legal!"

Turn on the television and tell me how we are training our little girls to look and behave. Gone are the days of leg warmers or bobbishoes - now our teens are sporting hip huggers and bellyrings. Yet, we're stunned when we live among this many grown men who are stalking child victims on the internet...

Our society is now paying some consequences for making Britney Spears a pin-up as a pre-teen if you ask me.