Pulled Ad Is Victim-Shaming: CULLEN
Alex … if you keep talking like this we will have to give you a timeout.
This is not victim-shaming, whatever that woke clap-trap means.
Let’s call this ad, in a world of no responsibility and in a language you might understand, consequence-sharing.
If you step out onto a street in violation of some bylaw from the dark ages that you probably voted for when you were on council, there’s a chance you will get whacked by a car. I was in Grade 2 when a girl beside me in front of my school ran out into a very busy road to get her ball and was hit and killed immediately by a car. That’s not pretty, Alex.
Graphic City Accident Ad Stirs Controversy
When you’re dead, there are no more coaching opportunities. No more team-building exercises. And giving someone a time-out for misbehaving is a little hopeless. They’re getting a time-out into eternity. That’s a big price to pay for a little beautiful child.
Would you rather be ‘consequence-shared’ or dead? And be assured in the most emphatic way possible that the jaywalking ad is a bed of roses compared to the real mashed child. Sorry, apparently we are not allowed to use the term ‘jaywalking’ now. For what reason? It is beyond me. Maybe it disrespects our recognition of a much-defiled avian species. But dead is dead. Can we still use ‘dead’? It is so harsh. Maybe we should call it going to another plain of existence but I stand to be corrected by the woke, over and over again.
We are producing generations in which there is no responsibility for actions, just excuses and entitlement.
While I’m ranting, let’s try this example.
I’m at the Western-Carleton football game on Saturday night when this young man seated behind me kept kicking me in the back. After a while, that became tedious.
So I turned around and said: “I’d appreciate it if you would stop doing that.”
So the answer was not “sorry, I’ll try to avoid doing that,” it was “my legs are too long.”
Well, my back isn’t too big. Perhaps my back was kicking his foot. That’s it.
Maybe I got it wrong. I think perhaps ‘you are invading my personal space’ might have been better.
Obviously, he was being victimized by me for not allowing him to kick me in the back. Furthermore, he was not responsible for the actions of his legs which were beyond his control.
“Maybe you could find another place for them.”
It was a good game once the kicking stopped. Maybe that’s why it’s called football … very little kicking in the game but in the stands …? I believe I was pro-active in a kind-and-caring manner that would eventually contribute to team-building and a better relationship in our play-place.
We’ll Meet These Transit Targets Whatever They Are
Anyway, Western, my old school, won. Suck it, kid. I hope he gets some grief counselling after his loss.
And as for you, Alex, I think you invaded my personal Twitter space.
But I’m sorry if I harshed your mellow.
Ken Gray
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I suspect that the use of the word “jaywalking” was deemed to be judgemental by the powers that be. Being judgemental is inappropriate, unless of course the person who is being judgemental is criticizing someone they don’t agree with. Then it is acceptable. It is all in the context Ken.
Perhaps Mr. Cullen could provide us with some practical input on how to retroactively fix poor road design. The roads that are set, figuratively and sometimes literally, in concrete.
In the meantime, given the physical constraints of the situation, we have a problem. Some people are being injured when they cross the street mid-block. Not always. Just sometimes. The one person who has the most control over the situation is the person stepping into a traffic lane.
Therein the problem lies. This whole mantra of being offended at apparent instances of victim blaming is so very wearying. The constant effort to point the finger of blame at “the man”. To absolve the individual of any responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.
To put not too fine a point to it, the advertisement that has caused so much contrived angst was using a photograph to show the possible consequences of entering a roadway at an uncontrolled point. A very specific situation. It did not state that this person’s injuries were the sole result of his poor judgement. It did not absolve the driver of the vehicle of any responsibility for failing to take sufficient evasive action. No. That is all being assumed by the righteously indignant. What the picture showed were the potential consequences of a specific action. The action being entering a street mid block. The physical consequences don’t change based on the allocation of blame between the driver of the vehicle and the pedestrian.
I have not seen anyone jaywalking in a long time. Not where I live. I live in an extremely busy area and it’s not jaywalking that’s the problem. The problem is worse than jaywalking. It children ranging from approximately 3 years old to approximately 7 to 10 years old. Worse than jaywalking, how would you like to drive down my street and all of a sudden these kids suddenly drive out in the middle of the road and not a care in the world. I watch from my balcony and every day I think it’s a mircale that no one has been hit and killed. The cars actually stop for the kids, and those kids couldn’t care less. There are no parents keeping an eyes on any of them. Those kids are driving old broken down bikes. I don’t want to be the one to call the police. The only good thing sort of is that it’s getting dark earlier. But last night that didn’t matter, they were driving on the street in the dark and again it’s a miracle that there weren’t any accidents. If I call the police I have a feeling that they couldn’t be bothered with this because they are looking for people jaywalking.