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» sugarmag - I remember ... when Ricki Lake first came out. I was 17 and stayed at home with my son. I was watching one day and found myself so enraged with the topic of one of her shows that I wrote her the looooongest letter. The show was all about bashing teen mothers, and about how none of them are any good, and could someone please help these poor souls. Grrrrr .... I wrote my letter, left off plenty of steam, though staying completely professional, else risk feeding into the stereotype she was helping, and sent it. Needless to say, I'm sure, I never recevied a response. In essence, I asked her why she didn't look up some real teen moms and ask them the questions.I hate those talk shows. They irk me to no end! Angela Giles Klocke One Young Parent - http://oneyoungparent.com Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~ Harvey Fierstein -- posted by sugarmag » sugarmag - Another post :) Well, I was fed up after a week of different talk shows bashing teen parents, so I wrote an open letter to talk shows. I invite you to read it and share it - http://teenwithchild.com/article1050.html
-- posted by sugarmag » gothrain - true the talk shows are a waste of everyones time yet i do watch them because i have nothing to do with my time. But then agian, the teenmothers that do go on there are helping the talk shows make their 'point' about teenmothers. It doesnt help that we get the teen mothers to go on the shows and go 'im such a slut and i slept with 11 boys and i dont know who the father of my baby is.' come on, the girls are dumb enough to do it so they are the ones who should be laughed at. Not us. We are smart enough not to sleep with that many guys and know who daddy is.-- posted by gothrain » Tery01 - Re: Talk show In response to Talk show posted by Mami17:I don't think that she was complaining. She was merely making a point that for some reason society looks at things differently when teenage mothers are portrayed on these talk shows and not knowing who the baby's father is compared to adults who are pregnant or don't know who the father is. It is OK for adults not to know, but for a teenage mother - society looks at this differently. She was, in fact, sticking up for teenage mothers not bashing them. -- posted by Tery01 » krazynativeangel - My Thoughts... I was reading the article teen mom stereotypes and I think those talk shows should reveal the positive side of teen pregnancy and teen mothers. Not all of them are bad. Most are tryin or already did turn they're lives around.Peace n much love~1~AnGeL -- posted by krazynativeangel
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