“Do It For Caylee”
So all over the fucking facebook, all sorts of people are posting these bullshit, self-satisfied “leave the porch light on for Caylee”, in memory of this 2-year old little kid whose mother Casey Anthony, everyone seems to suspect, has gotten away with murdering her. One person went the length of making a choo-choo train out of ascii characters. I’m not gonna do the screen shot, it’s too much work for something so stupid.
But you know what? You might as well write “eat a plate of spaghetti and meatballs for Caylee” for all the good it’s gonna do. She’s dead. She ain’t coming back. And it probably didn’t happen in your neighborhood.
And frankly, fuck you with your meaningless fucking symbolism. Oooh, you’re leaving the porch light on: wow. That’s so fucking DEEP, man.
Why aren’t you writing “become a foster parent for Caylee”? Or does that actually involve doing something that involves substantial effort?
For that matter, why aren’t you writing “Preserve safe and legal access to abortion for Caylee, because some people just aren’t meant to be parents”? Because if it’s true that Casey Anthony got off [and frankly, I have no interest in the case beyond the weird response I'm seeing on the intertubes, so i don't know if the lady's a crazy kid killer or not], this is the direct, if extreme, result of an unprepared person (single mom in her early 20s, correct?) bearing an unwanted child. Sorry abortion zealots, but there’s a big difference between aborting a fetus in the first trimester and murdering a two-year old child. It’s just not the same fucking thing guys.
So yeah, turn on your fucking porch light, and feel good about yourself for doing nothing other than wasting a few watts. You wanna do something useful, adopt an unwanted child, especially an older kid. If you can’t do that, become a foster parent, or even a Big Brother/Big Sister.
Otherwise, you’re reducing a kid’s death to just another cheap pop culture event, the national paroxysm of meaningless grief. And that ain’t right.
Over and out.
July 6th, 2011 at 7:52 am
I hope the jurors do not get any sort of backlash – it sounds like conditions for being a juror were horrible (sequestered, very long hours, no holiday weekend, …) and they were bulldozed right away for a decision. Combine with the constant pressure both attorneys placed on the jurors of being responsible for what happened to that girl. Whatever any of our guts say, we were not the jurors. If the media descend like hellhounds on these poor people, THAT will really piss me off. And your observations are dead on. What makes us go apeshit over a specific child but apathetic for many more is puzzling (like if any of these people into the Caylee Deathporn dare be republicans who want to cut WIC/head start programs – bitchslapping is in order).
July 6th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Some of you may remember the night President Reagan was shot- we stood on our front porch with lit candles.
Now we don’t even stand to ‘make a stand’. Me, I’m going to be apathetic for Caylee.
July 6th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
What are we “making a stand” about? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have had a vigil three years ago, when the kid actually died?
and what does a lit candle do, other than make you feel like you’re doing something when you’re not.