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man, I love this site...drama
- Dec 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM
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If you ever need some entertainment, some real drama in your life all you need to do is come to this site and post something contravercial. Then watch the sparks fly with your bowl of popcorn.
All I did was make a poll about some certain media extravaganza surrounding one little girl. I stated my opinion and left a few options. Talk about drama.
Now I'm getting hate mail and nasty messages in my chatterbox. Not only that but I found a whole post about little old me and how awful a person I am. I'm flattered you care so much about me as a person and can tell so much about me from one little poll.
I truly am. I was bored all day yesterday. Should have posted it earlier then I would have had some entertainment for the night.
As for my poll this is what I have to say on the subject of Caylee Anthony:
It's not that I don't care that the girl is dead. I'm very sad about it but if I let myself dwell more then a fleeting moment then I would have to dwell on every missing and abused child and then how do you live like that?
I don't know this kid. I don't know the family. I don't live in the area. The only connection I have is that I once spent a week in Orlando on my honeymoon. It's over with. The child is dead...let her rest already.
That's my opinion. I don't care that other people care. I don't understand why people are getting so wrapped up in this one case when there are thousands of other kids still missing and more go missing every day.
I also don't see why people are taking this so personally. If it was someone from my neighborhood I would take it more personally. I would be out there putting up flyers and searching, keeping my eye out. If it was an acutal neighbor or friend...I would be in tears.
Yes, I would want people out looking for my own kid if they went missing...people in the area. Would I care if they were all stuck to the TV wondering every moment of the day whether my kids was alive or not, making hundreds of posts a day on CafeMom...not really. I'd rather see people actually out helping find them.
Years ago in Chicago we had these two little girls go missing...Tionda and Diamond Bradley. I remember the case. The younger one was like 3 at the time. I think it got a little national news but then it just fizzled out. They've never been found. I looked it up on the Center for Missing and Exploited Children's website. They would be about 11 and 17 now. I checked the news and the last they heard was that they might have found the older one on MySpace but nothing has come of it (at least nothing that Google brought up).
How come they aren't getting any national attention?
I'm not cold hearted. In fact I've been told I let too much in. I let too many things out of my control effect me. One of the many reasons my depression was out of control for so many years.
I don't say "this happens every day" to be mean or to lessen what happened to this one little girl. It is just fact. I'm not desensitzed. I'm making a point...this happens EVERY day yet out of hundreds of kids that go missing and thousands that are neglected and abused only this one kid gets attention. That is beyond sad.
I guess there's nothing good on TV any more. Or the pull of reality TV has gone overboard (can't get closer to reality then actual reality). Not to mention people eat this stuff up.
I haven't watched the news. I never do...too depressing. The only reason I know anything about the case is from this site. Every other post for the last few months have been about it. Kind of hard to miss it. But I rarely read any of them. Just enough to know what was going on and to know there was nothing I could do about it so I moved on with my life.
I'm also kind of surprised that other people are so shocked and surprised at what the woman is suspected of doing (yeah, I still believe in the adage...innocent until proven guilty). What rock are you people living under? It didn't surprise me one bit. I find it sad.
I realize my opinions (on pretty much everything) are contravercial. When the whole Andrea Yates thing was going on every one was yelling for her to fry and I just felt sad for her. She needed medical help and slipped through he cracks and did something horrible. I felt utterly sad for her. Sad for the children that died but more sad for those that were left behind to deal with it and for her because eventually she will be right enough in the brain to comprehend what she did.
So, go ahead and leave me hateful messages, cuss up a storm in my chatterbox and call me awful names. Get your anger out. Rant and rave all you want on my journal. Luckily I care even less what random strangers online think of me. I find it mildly entertaining. It will be enough to keep me giggling all day...that you all care so much about me to call me names and swear at me or about me. If my one poll upset you so much that you needed to make a whole journal about me then you need to get a freaking life outside of cafemom. You're the one with issues, not me.
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I so hear you! I can't believe so many people got their panties in a wad. I always wonder why they pick one story over another to be blown up on TV.
Oh don't get me started on the Natalie case. Ask Joey, I rant & rave about that. Where is this post at, I thrive on drama. I did feel sorry for Caylee because I hate children being hurt by idiots but no it did not really affect me
OMG i read what she wrote, someone needs to bitch slap her ass all ready. I was good & did not leave what was on my mind when I looked at her profile. Call it my good deed for the day
I feel horribly about what happened to Caylee but I said a similar thing to my hubby the other day... Nancy Grace could use her show to help TONS of kids' story be known and for children to be searched for or their crime mysteries resolved but she's spent MONTHS following this case to the exclusion of all else and she's not the only show that has done so. I'm deeply sorry for the loss of the Anthony family but I'm just as sorry for those kids who are out there tonight, hoping someone will bring them home, that we're NOT hearing about on the news.
It is just like whole shaken baby thing. You heard all about Kaleb, how many other babies does it happen to a day? I would not wish that on any baby but come on. The media makes a frenzy about it.
It is amazing how you can get taken out of context on this site. Saying that you do not care to see the same story covered to no end is not the same as wishing death on someone. Some women need to get a life!!!!!
Hate mail? I am impressed. Have not have the pleasure of that, yet.
Jen, contrary to popular CM chatter, I think you rock!
And the Caylee Anthony case did and does get a lot of attention when there are plenty of other children who are missing. Where is their media coverage?
I agree completely!
I haven't heard anything about the Bradley sisters in a long time. I think the last thing I heard was about the picture on myspace. I think the parents of the girl in the pictures cleared it up or something. They just looked similar.
I think you rock too btw!
What bothers me is how heinous the crime was... I hate having to read about it over and over and over again, because it refreshes it in my mind and makes it impossible to move on. And every time I hear about ANY child being raped, victimized, abused, or murdered, I can't help but think about terrible things happening to my own precious baby.
THAT'S what bothers me about all the hype.
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I felt the same way with the whole Natalee Holloway thing. I don't know why certain cases get more publicity. But I do feel bad for the thousands other kids that don't have the media frenzy! ESPECIALLY BLACK KIDS!!
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