Safety zone: Fox’s Megyn Kelly says she won’t ask the Duggars any ‘tough’ questions

[hamsterjill]

11. These people simply need to go away.

Seriously, they had a niche in the market with some viewers, but now that "goody two shoes" image has been tarnished forever in my opinion. They need to simply shrink back into the existence that they had before their series - WITH all the money that they made off the series - and be thankful that no one in their family has (yet) wound up in jail.

Someone the other day commented to me that I shouldn't be so jubilant about a family's downfall. I don't see it that way. I see this as nothing different than rooting for one sports team over another. No one forced the Duggars to make their lives public. They did it FOR THE MONEY just like every other reality television star/family has done. Reality television is just that - reality. How they kept this secret for almost ten years without someone long ago revealing it is something that bewilders me. But their little black secret is out now, Josh has ADMITTED to what he did, there was most definitely a cover up, and things just aren't as perfect in that family as they tried to make America believe.

I'm fine with them seeking and receiving forgiveness from God. But that doesn't mean a police report shouldn't have been filed timely and that doesn't mean that the victims still don't need proper counseling.

But mostly - in my view - we need strong female role models on television for young girls and women to emulate. Not submissive, mousy females cowering to a mighty patriarch. Women have come quite far in my lifetime in becoming equal to men in most respects. This trend needs to continue forward; not regress backwards.