Thread: ANON and the "Internet Hate Machine"

I have more sympathy for Jessie Slaughter than I do Kenny. Jessie is one of many little girls with daddy issues and a pathological need for attention - given the way the media and our society is focused on sex, it is perfectly reasonable that a child with no effective role models or guidance in their life and no healthy foundation of self-worth or self-esteem would behave in this way. This sort of behaviour is not new in young kids - it's just new to the internet. Children are deeply sexualized and without someone to help them develop into a well rounded adult, it is very easy to stray into attention-whoring, cam shows, and girly thug talk. Without the wakeup call from Anon, I would wager that Jessie would have eventually been taking off her clothes on cam and would then be guilty herself of producing child porn or would have become sexually active in real life and ended up pregnant before middle school. Scarier still would be that she would play a grownup game with a predator and feel invincible in the way that kids do and end up getting raped or killed due to her own immaturity and arrogance that would not be a stretch at all, I dont think. It would have been a matter of time. Being that I am jaded and have a twisted sense of humour, I can laugh at what happened and see the justification - however I do recognise how terrifying it must have been for her and her family. I might even think that it was not funny at all if her parents had shown any sort of remorse for failing so miserably at being there to protect their daughter from herself, but instead they act like idiots and refuse to acknowledge the facts. If this had happened to me my mother would have been pissed and fought off ANON like a champ, but she would have demanded to see what I had done and would have slapped me silly and told me that if I didn't want to people to call and treat me like a slut, maybe I should take my brain out of prepubescent vagina and grow the fuck up. She would have no sympathy for my hurt feelings or embarrassment, and I would know that it was MY FAULT and whether those people overreacted or not, I brought it on myself. A parents job is not just to kiss the booboos and wounded egos, but to teach their children that they are not a special snowflake after all, and must be aware that for every action in this world there is an equal and opposing reaction. To do anything other than toss this kid into counselling and educate her on the risks of being a big-mouthed slut would be irresponsible and selfish. Nobody wants to call their children out for being slutty, or annoying, or just plain unlikeable but when they are too young to be able to see the consequences of their actions or to fully appreciate how much of an impact they have on their surroundings, somebody has got to be the bad guy and prevent this kind of thing from happening. Kenny and his sick little brother, however, deserve nothing from me. There is a difference between a misguided child who does not feel loved enough in her own life deciding to look for validation elsewhere, and sadistic and selfish little idiots that not only derive pleasure in things that are smaller and weaker than them, but who are arrogant enough to feel entitled and justified and broadcast it, as if to say Look at what I can do, I am untouchable, unlike this animal. Well, the same rules apply. There is always going to be something bigger and stronger and more malicious than yourself, and if that takes the shape of ANON then more power to them. If the parents did not know what was going on they were simply blind to the truth in their children nobody wants to see a psychopath in the eyes of their child, but I am sure they want to see that same psychopath bathed in the blood of the family pet, and worse, on the internet for the entire world to see. It is the responsibility of the parent to be diligent in watching for this sort of behaviour and correcting it. Kids that torture animals need to be evaluated, and if the reality is that they were indeed a psychopath or sociopath accurately referred to as antisocial personality disorder, no amount of crying or praying or ignoring is going to change that. Counselling and education, however, can mediate a tense situation and prevent atrocities from happening and the scorn of the world coming down on your household.