Her parents didn't teach her this, we did. Honestly if she was some plain jane ugly girl people wouldn't pay any attention to this. Right now this girl is probably worth more than some of us would see in our lifetime. She's 17. Even if she pulls out of the whole mess and says "I was young and manipulated" so what, she's made her retirement.
Why are so many people mocking this girl and calling her a *advertiser censored* and a **** and all sorts of things, she's 17. She's obviously not very worldly or deep and she's giving it a run for the money.
If people were really offended they'd ignore them but instead they are turning them into media celebrities. I bet her sex tape is just waiting to be leaked once she's of legal age.
You make a good point about society giving these people the attention that rewards this behavior. But, with one important exception (perhaps the most important) I can't really agree with most of the rest of the post.
Society did not teach this child how to be cheap. Society does not look kindly on such creatures or treat them well. They are looked at as tragic figures who inhabit the lower echelons of society and are able to be just more than common street walkers because of their underlying nice bodies and basically decent features, and some funds, which they use to accentuate, usually in ridiculous ways, those features.
And it is widely believed/known that most women who market themselves in the way Courtney has been marketed, were molested as children - people gawk, but not in a good way.
Further, her parents had to give this child permission to marry a perverted old man. And they had to allow her to dress in a cheap fashion and adopt the attitude and attire of a *advertiser censored* star, and then to produce videos marketing that style, which were promoted publicly, when she was only 16 years of age.
Society ultimately can be held at bay, if you still adhere to the "society made her do it" view point, when the subject is a 16 year old little girl who has parents who can legally control her behavior. Not only did they fail to control her behavior, they encouraged it. In fact, I sincerely believe that they raised her to be this way and created situations that would result in what we are seeing now.
The parents wanted this more than anything. This child's own father handed her off to the creep. And I am sure they got a hefty "gift" in return.
This is a train wreck. It is tragic, what this child has been raised to become. She really was fated to this and can see no other options. It is disgusting. And to say that, hey she can get wise when she gets older and realize the error of her ways, and no problem then because "So what, she's made her retirement." is, wow. I don't know. I feel that's the same as saying that a child prostitute who gets out of the business at a certain age after making money from it should not be pitied and the practice of child prostitution should really not be scorned because hey, she earned a buck or two.
I don't give a darn how much money Courtney Stodden makes from this. It's horrible. It's sad and IMO, it should be illegal. Her parents sold her to an old man. We watch in horror, amazement and disgust. This girl was made into a freak by the adults in her life and she will always be known as the freaky, child bride who was compelled to sell herself to an old man for notoriety.
No amount of money can make up for that. No amount of money can make up for the fact that a little girl was transformed into a pornographic cartoon and will always be known for that, or the fact that her first sexual experiences were as a minor, with a dirty old man, not with a fellow, sweet teenager - but with a pervert, a predator.
All of this is super offensive. People almost never ignore that which is super offensive. They watch with disgust and repeat what was done or said, bringing to light that which could be hushed up. Bringing light to something offensive has an effect. In this case, I hope that effect is to bring shame on the heads of the adults involved, to expose them as child prostitute pimps and to ruin their reputations and careers.
As for Courtney, I think you are right about mocking her. This is really not her fault, yet we are casting scorn on her more than anyone else involved in this train wreck. She is called trashy, slutty, etc., Not her horrible parents or molester husband.
And I admit to enjoying that scorn at times. I laughed at Anderson Cooper when he mocks her. I do find it hilarious.
So, perhaps that is really wrong. We are *advertiser censored* shaming the child bride, mocking her for being on drugs adults gave her, mocking her for the lack of education her parents created, when really, we should be calling the police.
In our defense, however, the most meaningful adults in this kid's life - her parents, the man who may have taken her virginity, her husband - have surrounded her and brainwashed her with the idea that being a child prostitute is an honorable thing. They have made money off her, or hope to, no doubt about that, IMO. So they are never going to tel her the truth about what she has become, about what they have made her to be.
So let society do it.
If this kid can see that she has been used by those who should have loved her most, that she has become a freakish, pornographic cartoon character, the type that is reviled by society, perhaps she will break away and break out.
I only wish that instead of being "uncomfortable" with the spectacle of Courtney Stodden and her molester husband, the women of that house had embraced her and taken every opportunity to give her affection, attention and to show her the truth. Of course, I don't know what kind of women they are. They may not be far off from what she was raised to be.
Maybe that is what we need to do. Instead of mocking her into reality, we should love her into it. Because she is a victim. Really, she is the only victim in this.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to vent. The tragedy of Courtney Stodden has bothered me from the beginning. I will never understand how this was legal.