Per this storywould you be OK with a group putting up billboards along your local highways with this message?
“She’s your daughter. Not your date”
I see the point of fighting sex crimes, but honestly if I was looking for a place to locate my business and I saw these peppering the town roadway I’d probably look elsewhere.
It’s the next step. Already all men are treated as potential child molesters whom you must not leave alone with kids, now they’re not even safe with their own kids.
I’m going with “not okay” on this one. Don’t get me wrong: I’m very firmly on the “Don’t do it” side of the “Should you rape your children?” debate. But if you’re the sort of person who looks at their own kid and thinks, “Yeah, I’m gonna get a piece of that,” I don’t think a fuckin’ billboard is going to drive home the point of how wrong it is. If they haven’t gotten the message yet, they’re not ever going to get it.
Also, the slogan is just creepy as fuck, and not in the way they intended. “She’s your daughter, not your date,” implies that it’s okay to force yourself on an unwilling teenager/adolescent, just so long as you’re not kin. Child molestation is unlike dating for a whole lot of reasons that are entirely unrelated to your family tree.
I’m not convinced it’s a great idea, but despite the billboard’s apparent audience, the article sounds as though the real audience is the community at large. It’s an attempt by a group who works with incest victims to make the larger community aware of the problem.
that reminds me of a short lived ad the center for missing and exploited kids
had years ago
theres two guys in a parking garage in a rundown building there sitting there and drinking beer and laughing and fron the narration it says theres a drug deal going on and the buyer has no income basically homeless ect and hes selling/renting the only thing of value he has left for the drugs and it shows a girl supposedly nude wrapped in a blanket on a filthy mattress in the corner with a hollowed out thousand yard stare and says “his daughter”
I think it only ran twice at like 1 am before people complained
Maybe it’s a group who believes all the hype and inflated stats about “white slavery.”
I gotta say, I admire your courageous stand.
Then tell them how bad it is. Not tell them what they already know. Tell them that 1 out of X children will have been molested by a relative. Or that 1 of X adults will commit incest with their children.
Maybe even take the same sign and say “He thinks she’s his date. But she’s really his daughter.”
“Let’s stop in the next town and grab some lunch”
<Incest billboard>
“Ok, the next town after this one”.
I really don’t see any way in which this could be effective. IMO a billboard aimed at telling victims how and where to get help has a better shot at being effective.
How does that tell anyone how bad it is? Is there some sort of long-term effect of this type of thing that’s actually been measured/quantified beyond saying “it messes people up”? If there is that’s what you’d use.
An admirable sentiment to be sure. But…there’s a debate about this? :eek:
Maybe in Perry.
Agreed. The use of the second person instead of the third seems strange to me. The current phrasing weirdly manages to accuse every random man who passes of being a child molester, while simultaneously making the problem seem more mundane than it is.
Like I’m going to glance at the billboard, and go: “Oh, I got it mixed up again. Sorry, silly me.”
So you are driving with your family and you pass that sign. Your child says “Mommy/daddy, what does that mean, she’s not your date? … Why did they have to put up a sign that says that?”
What do you say?
Ah, the one priority that always takes precedence over all others: Not having to explain things to your children.
Anyway, you say: “Shut up, and put daddy’s **** back in your mouth.”
That is disgusting and profoundly disturbing, for reasons others have amply covered.
What, my post? Thanks!
I’ll pass around the brain bleach, as usual. It’s on the house.
You know, it’s probably a good thing to tell your children that there are homosexuals in the world, and that we used to have slaves in the US but don’t any longer. But i don’t really see any upside in explaining to your 6 year old that some people rape their children.
And a billboard accusing every random man of incest seems nasty, also to no benefit.
I’d oppose that sign.
Well, that too, but I was talking about the sign.
But you bring up a good point. I’ve known some cops who had pretty heinous stories about men who raped their daughters. I don’t recall any of them taking their victim out on a “date.” What, exactly, is the basis for this billboard? Does it actually reflect the way child rapists treat their children?
How about “She’s your daughter not your dinner” to combat cannibalism?
I don’t think that the billboards would do much harm… but I also can’t see how they would do any good whatsoever. Little harm balanced against no good means they should be taken down.