It Starts on Daytime Talk-Shows, but Where Does it End?

As you’re reading this right now, play a little word association game to yourself. Ready? What comes to mind when you hear these words: NASA…James Bond..MAGA…Don Lemon…The View? For many of you, when you read “The View,” most average folks think of the daytime, all female gossip show on ABC.

Others may look into and have a deeper understanding about cultural icons. So they hear “The View” and think: washed up hags without careers, screeching about nothing, and acting all sanctimonious about stuff they don’t agree with. They ignore their pasts in their assertions and behaviors, especially when confronted on their own show.

What goes through your mind when you hear, “The Talk?” Again, for many, nothing. If you weren’t aware, “The Talk” is the CBS discount version of “The View.” It’s similar in that it’s another panel of women, but with an even more distinct racial mixture. The panel consists of Eve, the rapper from the Ruff Ryder days, an actress, a wife, mother, and now daytime talk show panelist.

Why are 5 grown women considering the notion of discussing a compulsory, “self-touching” lesson for children?

Other panelists include Marie Osmond of the Osmond fame; Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne’s wife whose meteoric rise to fame originated in reality TV show, “The Osbournes;” Carrie Ann Inaba, who appeared on “Dancing With the Stars,” and Austin Powers: Goldmember; and finally Sheryl Underwood, a comedienne noted for her random appearances in the movie “Barbershop,” and The Steve Harvey Morning Show. It is essentially a more visually appealing, but less popular version of “The View.”

Masturbation in School?

In terms of topics, “The Talk” ranges from having Julie Andrews make an appearance, to talking with actors and actresses about their shows and other topics in an hour that weren’t already covered by “The View.” What’s been interesting lately is “The Talk’s” Twitter account. They are generally benign and cringe, and fill their timeline with “The Talk” GIFs that run on a loop. But something interesting they recently tweeted posed a disturbing question that’s gotten everyone in a tizzy.

The tweet in question frames the concept of masturbation classes for kids as young as 6 to learn compulsory as a minor thing to consider. It ends the tweet with the question, “What do you think?” You can read the tweet here. With 6.9K comments, over a thousand likes to this tweet, and over a thousand retweets, one can only hope but the majority of the replies are generally negative at the concept. Some have taken aim at the producers of the show and the social media coordinator.

The Slippery Slope

This tweet raises a few questions. For one, why are 5 grown women considering the notion of discussing a compulsory, “self-touching” lesson for children? That says something either about the inclinations of CBS, the writers, or the panelists themselves.

Second, how are there over a thousand likes to this tweet? As if it’s something to much less talk about. Thirdly, even if we allow this type of class to be a reality, who would be the one administering it? How does one become qualified for it? What will be their credentials? Background check? It all just becomes this dirty, perverse direction, and opens the door to something that should not be normalized.

Six year old children should not be thinking about the best way to masturbate, as that is exactly what this tweet is “open to discussing.” Six year old children should be wondering what game to play outside, what their next drawing is going to be, or whether or not to jump on the couch to avoid the lava floor. They should simply do kid stuff that affords kids to be kids.

We’ve already begun slipping down the slope we have allowed. Five to ten years ago, homosexuality was a radical concept. Then someone inserted into the equation that homosexuality is genetic, and we now widely accept being gay as normal. The current fight is against the normalization of pedophilia. Genetics is becoming a new front, as “doctors” are stating that if you are a pedophile, you were born that way.

Between all of the degeneracies, the hypersexualization of children was something everyone knew you just didn’t allow. Yet now, we have daytime gossip shows that use social media to start a discussion to sexualize kids as young as six years old. It looks like 2019 is posing to be a very slippery slope. If we don’t pump the breaks before too long, we’re working on ruining a culture we built and rested upon for a very long time.