Replies to '01/15 Internet Mistakes'
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January 15, 2008, 4:46 pm PST
 Quote From: pumpkinsforme I am currently viewing this show. I am a mother of three teen daughters. I am HORRIFIED at what I saw on the facebook pictures on the show. The degradation these young ladies have submitted themselves to is incredible! It is not FUN, as one young lady stated. The situations these young ladies are in are dangerous, degrading and humilating and it indicates the onset of an entire generation who will have alcoholism and drinking problems. Other outcomes will include how these young ladies will eventually view themselves once they have matured and realise the impact of their actions. The horror of the photos of the two young ladies passed out with graffiti written on their bodies. As a mother I would CRY if my college aged or high school daughter came home with Sharpie all over them from being passed out drunk. The horror that it was likely that no one at the parties even cared if these girls were alright as they were passed out. That they were just objects. What did or what could have happened to them during their passed out period? The implications from this show are far beyond if it is appropriate to post your pictures and if a future employer will see them!!! It is an indication of something much more sinister having an impact on our youth and the general decline in the society they are living within and what is being felt as acceptable. A young college student drinking at a party and making a mistake by becoming too drunk on one occasion is what used to be for girls. Maybe it occured a few times BUT with a son in college I am hearing that every weekend -all weekend the kids are very drunk and girls passed out. It is very scarey and I feel someone needs to reach out to these young ladies and say it is not okay to behave this way or to put yourself in these situations where your safety and self respect is at stake. I would love to see Dr. Phil continue with this theme and go into other outcomes this behavior could bring forth. Please have your young high school age and above daughters watch this show! I am taping it for mine. Please talk to them and tell them of the danger of this behavior. It is way beyond someone seeing your embarrassing moment! I agree with many of your comments. My husband and I both watched this show today and were just incredulous at the lack of awareness that these young women seemed to have regarding the very real dangers of getting so intoxicated that they end up wrapped around a toilet vomitting for hours or passed out in what looked like a public area where anyone could have come along and done whatever with them. I just shook my head at what I saw.
I wonder if these girls realize that they could have been raped at the hands of a stranger or worse yet, could have choked on their own vomit and died on account of their binge drinking? Women are so much more susceptible to alcohol poisoning than men that they must develop an awareness of this and take care not to abuse themselves in this way. From what I have read, binge drinking is on the rise in young women and they will pay the price in their later years. Drinking excessively can also have a great affect on bone development and bone mass in later years.
To me it's just very destructive behaviour that these young women are desperately trying to defend as self-expression? My sense here is that these girls lack much of a real sense of self, of conscience, of morality and probably haven't received much in the way of positive direction in their lives to the point where they feel inclined to defend all of their actions as just being who they are? Pretty sad indeed.
To the matter of whether or not the substitute teacher crossed the line, I agree completely with Dr. Phil that absolutely, a teacher, doctor, judge, any professional who serves public interests, particularly those involving children, has a duty to be above reproach in their 'public' lives and act accordingly and appropriately in all that they do. I believe this teacher knew what he was doing but thought that he could use freedom of expression to defend his choice to post explicit material at his website, knowing his students would discover it.
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