I know some of you may have seen this already since Jesus’ General linked to it, but for my money this is the best thing I’ve seen on You Tube all year:
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I find it offensive that the author of this script has given this little 8 year old a script with expletives.
What’s the point there? Parents WILL NOT find this amusing. I work hard with my 16 year old to get him to remove the nasty words. I have nothing against nasty words per se, but they make you sound boorish and ill-raised.
Well, she’s not your kid, for starters, and if the worst thing my kids have ever said is “god damned” then I will be forever grateful.
Not a problem. Juvenile, but your call.
It’s offensive, regardless. Swearing 8-year-olds are amusing only to other juveniles.
I guess I’m a juvenile then, albeit one with a PhD.
I guess.
Hey, I’ll see your PhD, and raise it one Masters degree.
Wow, degree poker.
Degrees have nothing to do with this. Anybody who deals with very many children has seen too many children badly used. We’ve rammed commercialism down our children’s throats and this video had just turned another kid into a commodity. It’s a left-wing commodity, but that doesn’t make any better. I think it makes it worse. I expect us to uphold a higher standard.
I’ve often thought that one of the jobs of a parent is to teach young people that the appropriateness of language depends on the setting and context. Granted, 8 years old might be a little young for that, but still… the context of this is pretty funny precisely because it demonstrates wisdom “from the mouth of babes.”
But the alleged wisdom is not from this child. And the means of expression are not appropriate to a child. This child is being used. Children need to learn that there are things appropriate children and other things appropriate to adults. Otherwise the freedom we think we are giving our children is really a premature adulthood that they can not handle and that destroys there childhood.
Here’s something really obscene:
Where are you going with this?
Maybe this child understands more than you know. And she`s too young to have a masters or a phd, but in my book she won this hand. I don`t think she could come up with a “root canal” scenario, but give her a few years. Don`t be discouraged yet.
The “coolth” of this is that a child has been given an adult-written script that expresses ideas that many progressive adults like to hear. She’s good at speaking the script as if she were really generating the ideas on her own. Hearing those adult-written words, complete with adult language is the humor, to some. Sort of a cross between Emily Litella, Dorothy Parker & Maryscott O’Connor — in miniature.
I’m not particularly fond of this technique when it’s used in commercials, and I don’t like it here, either though it is funny. Guaranteed to irritate many who have kids or work with kids, regardless of their political persuasion.
I’m willing to step up and be the cranky teacher here. This isn’t funny. To begin with, I don’t like to see little girls dressed as adults. Also, she’s parroting some adult rant which was obviously written for her. If an adult said this, no one would care. It’s not original or funny. The joke is supplied by the kid saying the words and that is exploitive of the child. It’s like cats dressed as humans. Not funny, folks. But it’s much worse, as a child is being exploited.
It’s child abuse to provide an 8-year-old with filthy language to parrot.