News Idiots

I was watching the Today Show this morning. There is a story about a girl who goes to Duke. She slept with a bunch of athletes, and then made a professional-grade PowerPoint about how good or bad the guys were in bed. She emailed it to her friends, and then it spread like wildfire.

Now, some of you might think that the girl in the story is an idiot. I don't know that she is. I think that idiots are the people at the Today Show who think that a college student being slutty and everyone finding out is a news story. They had on some expert who talked about how everyone should "start early" talking to their children about sex and the dangers of the internet.

Really? This girl is a college graduate, not a 15-year-old. If she wants to be in porn or be a stripper, she can. If she wants to have sex with all kinds of football players and the infamous Duke Lacrosse team, she can. In the words of Britney Spears, that's her prerogative. If she wants to make a funny PowePoint about it "didn't last very long," kudos to her.

The Biggest Idiot of All was the "internet safety advocate" that they interviewed. She went on and on about the dangers of posting things online. "Everyone will know!" "Young children don't know what they're doing to themselves when they put things online!" The kicker for me was when Meredith Viera pointed out that this is the type of thing that frat guys do all the time. This "expert" said something along the lines of yes men might do it, but "women have lost all their modesty this days." Double standard there much? Can we please get past the boys will be boys mentality? Girls wanna be slutty, too!

Now throw in the fact that most people would have never heard this story if it hadn't been broadcast on the biggest news show in the country, and you have a bunch of idiots.

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