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snooper2

(30,151 posts) Fri Jun 27, 2014, 12:11 PM Jun 2014

VICE - Kids Telling Dirty Jokes: Ruby (NSFW!, TRIGGER WARNING!, RUDE LANGUAGE!, OFFENSIVE!) [View all]

now that the disclaimers are out of the way-

The comments on the video have some saying this is child abuse- others think she is a funny young girl-
You decide!

VICE

Published on Jun 27, 2014

Check out Logan in Episode 3 now!: http://www.vice.com/kids-telling-dirt...

Meet Ruby—the type of girl the Tea Party would be happy to have on their side. Yeah, she might look like a doll straight out of an American Girl catalog, but at least she's not afraid to share her thoughts on circumcision and the modern women.

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VICE - Kids Telling Dirty Jokes: Ruby (NSFW!, TRIGGER WARNING!, RUDE LANGUAGE!, OFFENSIVE!) [View all] snooper2 Jun 2014 OP

I can't imagine who would think that was a good idea. MineralMan Jun 2014 #1

I have to agree, more or less. This seems exploitative. n/t nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #15

Parents seem to have forgotten about their own kidhoods Warpy Jun 2014 #2

were you put front and center denigrating your own sex, for grown men to giggle at the seabeyond Jun 2014 #5

But I doubt you told them to your parents or teachers rocktivity Jun 2014 #13

Not from my own parents Warpy Jun 2014 #14

DING DING DING! Warpy, you're our grand prize winner!!! rocktivity Jun 2014 #20

Yup--I picked up on that exact point. Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #27

It might be funnier if she got the jokes aikoaiko Jun 2014 #3

seriously? and who taught her this shit? the men just a laughin' and a laughin'? you know, grown seabeyond Jun 2014 #4

not sure where they find the kids, been a couple seasons now- snooper2 Jun 2014 #6

i do not do this with my kids. if it is not good enough for my boys, i am not going to seabeyond Jun 2014 #8

I've heard (and repeated) the Clapton one before. So cruel but so funny. nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #16

too bad you stopped, you could have heard the one about the lesbian and the walrus CBGLuthier Jun 2014 #12

Under different circumstances, I would have voted that as a stealth personal attack rocktivity Jun 2014 #22

This most certainly does merit a visit from child protective services rocktivity Jun 2014 #7

It's not an audience, just the producers from VICE Media snooper2 Jun 2014 #9

So none of the kids are theirs? rocktivity Jun 2014 #10

Dirty is one thing but the homophobic one at the end was over the top. CBGLuthier Jun 2014 #11

Yeah, I'm not the easily offended type, but some of these jokes are just gross and mean-spirited nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #18

The concept is somewhat amusing, the actual execution not as much. nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #17

It's obviously scripted,she looks uncomfortable sufrommich Jun 2014 #19

A perfect storm of appallingly bad judgment, exploitation, and pedophilia normalizing rocktivity Jun 2014 #21

Fucking creepy ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #23

Somehow I don't have a problem defacto7 Nov 2014 #24

The question of child abuse is for trained, child psychologists. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #25

I think any time anyone uses children in an age - inappropriate context it's just not cool. MADem Nov 2014 #26