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conuly
If I catch anybody sending around this poem, I'm going to have to rant. You don't want that.
Honestly, I don't know what was going through this person's head as she wrote this poem. I can only hope it was better before it got edited by being spread. Right now the rhyme and meter are both off, and the whole thing seems... trite.
It seems like the sort of thing written by somebody with no experience of child abuse, not even second or third hand experience. Somebody who just thinks child abuse is wrong and should be stopped.
Well, everybody thinks child abuse is wrong and should be stopped. I bet abusers even think that, whether or not they realize they're being abusive. That's one of those statements you can't help but agree with. Truth, justice, freedom, and child-abuse-should-be-stopped. Child abuse, much like Carthage, delenda est. You can just tack that line anywhere, and everybody will nod sagely. What else would they do?
Here's the thing. Passing on a stupid chain letter will *not* end child abuse. It won't help abused children get help, and it won't help abusers stop. It'll make you feel good, if you're that sort of person, but then you'll go along in your life and never think of it again, because you're the sort of person who passes along chain letters, and that's about as much as you think about this issue or that one. Great help.
Please forward this letter if you are AGAINST CHILD ABUSE. And if you're not, you're a horrible heartless person. Oh, and pray a lot. Because prayer has been proven to be effective in 87% of all child abuse cases. 25% of cases improved with a placebo. Side effects of prayer may include....
And while you're sitting there praying, some of the rest of us might be doing something. I don't know what, but I'm sure I can find something.
Of course, what really pisses me off isn't the standard stupid spiel you always find in chain letters, it's the poem. What on earth possesses people to take serious issues and type them up so badly as to make them laughable? When talking about Hitler, we don't have to preface all statements with "He was a very, very bad man". When we discuss genocide, we don't have to start out "Now, kids, this isn't very nice. Don't try this at home!" When talking about child abuse, we cheapen our argument by starting out with a sappy poem. It makes the entire issue into a joke.
And that's just not right.
And I've rambled, and I'm sorry, but I *hate* this sort of stupid thing. Anybody I catch passing around stupid chain letters is going to have some serious explaining to do, you can be *quite* sure.
Honestly, I don't know what was going through this person's head as she wrote this poem. I can only hope it was better before it got edited by being spread. Right now the rhyme and meter are both off, and the whole thing seems... trite.
It seems like the sort of thing written by somebody with no experience of child abuse, not even second or third hand experience. Somebody who just thinks child abuse is wrong and should be stopped.
Well, everybody thinks child abuse is wrong and should be stopped. I bet abusers even think that, whether or not they realize they're being abusive. That's one of those statements you can't help but agree with. Truth, justice, freedom, and child-abuse-should-be-stopped. Child abuse, much like Carthage, delenda est. You can just tack that line anywhere, and everybody will nod sagely. What else would they do?
Here's the thing. Passing on a stupid chain letter will *not* end child abuse. It won't help abused children get help, and it won't help abusers stop. It'll make you feel good, if you're that sort of person, but then you'll go along in your life and never think of it again, because you're the sort of person who passes along chain letters, and that's about as much as you think about this issue or that one. Great help.
Please forward this letter if you are AGAINST CHILD ABUSE. And if you're not, you're a horrible heartless person. Oh, and pray a lot. Because prayer has been proven to be effective in 87% of all child abuse cases. 25% of cases improved with a placebo. Side effects of prayer may include....
And while you're sitting there praying, some of the rest of us might be doing something. I don't know what, but I'm sure I can find something.
Of course, what really pisses me off isn't the standard stupid spiel you always find in chain letters, it's the poem. What on earth possesses people to take serious issues and type them up so badly as to make them laughable? When talking about Hitler, we don't have to preface all statements with "He was a very, very bad man". When we discuss genocide, we don't have to start out "Now, kids, this isn't very nice. Don't try this at home!" When talking about child abuse, we cheapen our argument by starting out with a sappy poem. It makes the entire issue into a joke.
And that's just not right.
And I've rambled, and I'm sorry, but I *hate* this sort of stupid thing. Anybody I catch passing around stupid chain letters is going to have some serious explaining to do, you can be *quite* sure.
