May 10
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Sex pervert parents let tweens watch Glee
This is why we have socialism – because incompetent and immoral parents refuse to raise civilized children. As a result, they appeal to a messianic state to pick up the pieces and fix the problems. And responsible parents are expected to shut up and pay the (tax) bills, instead of rebuking shameful parenting and calling all parents to exercise their divine obligations in a responsible fashion.
The Summerside Journal-Pioneer – May 20, 2010
Parents of tweens ponder the question: To ‘Glee’ or not to ‘Glee’?
By Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press
Excerpt…
“OK,” went the email that circulated among parents recently at a New York City elementary school. “Is ‘everyone’ in the fifth grade REALLY watching ‘Glee’?” A discussion ensued: To “Glee” or not to “Glee”? At issue wasn’t the quality of the hugely popular Fox series about a high-school glee club, which in just its first season has won a Golden Globe, seen its cast perform at the White House, launched a national concert tour, and is, to hear many tell it, approaching the status of a mini-pop culture phenomenon. The question, rather: Is “Glee” just too racy for the tweens who love it?
It’s a dilemma, and not just because it’s hard to fight with one’s offspring. “Glee,” which kids love for its infectious musical numbers – a few critics call them overproduced or sloppily lip-synched, but let’s not be grumpy about it, because “Glee” is the very antithesis of grump – has an upbeat, inclusive message that recalls the “High School Musical” films.
But this ain’t no “High School Musical.” For where those rosy-cheeked Disney Channel films barely contained a kiss on the lips, “Glee” has sex. And teen pregnancy. It tackles issues of homosexuality and losing one’s virginity, and one scene showed a character, well, ejaculating in a hot tub.
So what’s a parent of a tween “gleek” – as fans call themselves – to do? For Scott Bienstock, the answer is to keep his hand nervously on the pause button, ever at the ready to order his nine-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son to close their eyes. “It’s pretty uncomfortable,” says Bienstock, a sales representative in New York. That hot tub scene particularly unnerved him, and he thinks some of the numbers can be a little provocative. But his kids and his wife, Ruth, love the show so much that he has, basically, given up the fight. “They look forward to it every week,” he says. “I feel like I’m being a prude.” …