Tuesday August 12, 2008, 7:23 pm
As I said a few days ago in another post,I think this is totally wrong and should be pulled!If they do not have the sense to do it themselves then maybe someone should help them understand just how harmful it is!!

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 7:24 pm
Thanks,Mary this needs to be brought up again!

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 7:27 pm
I am posting this news to note for a dear friend, Victoria Kelly. Not only is she a survivor of child abuse, but she is becoming a one woman army, speaking out for those who cannot speak for themselves. Please sign her petition and tell all those who think child exploitation is acceptable that it will not stand. Thanks, MJ

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/child-abuse-seen-as-a-funny-comment-by-facebook-users

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 7:31 pm
Novice here does anyone know how to create a hyper link to the petition. Thanks. MJ

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 7:43 pm
Petition already signed. I agree this is wrong and not the least bit cute or funny. Sadly things like this and worse are posted in many of these websites. Time for the laws on this to be alot stricter and more enforced.
Thank you! You signed at 8:25 PM PDT, Aug 10, 2008 Thanks Mary.

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 8:02 pm
Child abuse????
I think this is in poor taste but it is not child abuse...in my opinion.
And this is not typical of facebook either

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 8:28 pm
I think it is more than just poor taste, if this were a picture of a little black boy and the caption ended with F.... this, I'll be a drug dealer, would any of us think it remotely funny? I think not.

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 9:10 pm
signed and noted thank you

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 9:35 pm
Not to worry - I signed the petition last week. Thanks, Mary.

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 10:18 pm
Thanks, Mary. Noted and signed..

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 11:09 pm
Mary, I signed
I was really upset when I saw it...
exploitation involves a persistent social relationship in which certain persons are being mistreated or unfairly used for the benefit of others. This corresponds to one ethical conception of exploitation, that is, the treatment of human beings as mere means to an end — or as mere "objects". In different terms, "exploitation" refers to the use of people as a resource, with little or no consideration of their well-being.

Tuesday August 12, 2008, 11:19 pm

At the very best, this is demeaning to women. At it's worst, it
is very suggestive of child sexual abuse. Victoria was right on
to catch it. (I signed the other day.)

Thank you.

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 4:02 am
thanks, mj... signed, noted and forwarded to friends... i am glad this was taken care of, i was sickened when i saw this...:(

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 4:30 am
Just pathetic is it not???

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 12:17 pm
join my webgroup: A Helping Hand for Healing Souls for more ideas and ACTION! http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/AHHHS You need to apply but I will check back often to get everyone who wants to help with this and other issues of abuse (in all it's forms).... I welcome all discussion!

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 7:38 pm
signed and noted Thanks :)

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 7:53 pm
signed & noted...thanks for bringing this to my attention Mary

Thursday August 14, 2008, 1:42 pm
I can understand this being offensive to strippers, in fact I'm outraged that the supple and nubile young things out there working the pole dancing clubs are subjected to this kind of heinous misrepresentation.

Stripping is an art form, and requires strength, coordination and flexibility.

Facebook should be doing more to promote stripping as a valid career choice.

Thursday August 14, 2008, 2:14 pm
stripping as a valid career choice?
That is why women describe the experience being similar to sexual abuse? They have to use drugs and alchohol to "do it"..
If you can squat down and pick up a buck in your you know what... You can be as stripper!

Thursday August 14, 2008, 2:19 pm
Oh that last post you don't even have to do that!
Being a Survivor of Systems of Prostitution, I will tell you that stripping is just another form of violence against women! (sorry, sometimes I get too sarcastic about it)..

I have worked with victims and survivors of the sex industry and I will tell you there arte more victims than we can help! and they just grab another young girl/boy to fill their "JOB"!

It is disrespectful to tell victims of abuse that sexual abuse (to another woman/child) is YOUR JOB!

Thursday August 14, 2008, 5:44 pm
Dancing is an art form Trife, even Gypsy Rose Lee, probably the most famous stripper of all times, stripped because she was rejected by her mother. A good friend of mine had a sister who thought it was a good way to pick up some easy money, she ended up hooked on drugs and dead at 30. Did she come from an abusive family......YES.

Thursday August 14, 2008, 5:54 pm
Relax people it is just a joke ...the kid cannot read...that is the joke...period How did this become a child abuse issue???

Thursday August 14, 2008, 8:09 pm
This was originally political satire against the Victorian Government's serious cutting back on reading programs in their schools. As political satire goes, it is quite good and effective.

Thursday August 14, 2008, 10:41 pm
If you had ever had your body sold... IT IS NO JOKE! and kids as young as this (and younger) are exploited and ussually never do get an education! If it was about reading programs they all need to WISE UP! I think they are the ignorant ones!

Friday August 15, 2008, 1:11 am
Noted and petition signed, thank you.

Friday August 15, 2008, 10:56 am
When I first saw this I was totally sickened by it. Whoever came up with this & whoever put this on Facebook has one mighty warped sense of humor. This is not the least bit funny or cute.

Friday August 15, 2008, 6:27 pm
The original essence was to shock the Victorian Government into re-installing the reading programs. The message is that if they don't, children will be so handicapped as to have to seek otherwise unacceptable careers. It worked too.

This petition is way over the top.

Friday August 15, 2008, 8:24 pm
the Cat in The Hat was written by Dr Seuss and published around 1958, hardly the Victorian era. Seuss wrote a series of books aimed at making the learning process more colorful and fun for children. He dedicated his life to it and I doubt that he would see the humor here. I could say a lot of thing right now, but let me just say that Victoria chose this poster because it was one of the least offensive and show able ones. Do the research, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Saturday August 16, 2008, 9:34 am
Everybody has a point, although this is only a joke. There are hundreds of other HTMLs like this about all races, all are equally a joke. No need to take this personally, there are many people out there who have been abused, who have worked through thier shame, and can laugh at jokes like this.

Saturday August 16, 2008, 7:17 pm
and that says so much about our society, that it is the victim's who feel the shame, not the perpetrators.