Is it any wonder?

Is it any wonder that so many people live in fear of being ridiculed? Bullying, it would appear, is not only to feared and expected in middle school. One only has to turn on the tv to be regaled with non-stop ridicule.

You could argue that these folks were asking for it by showing up to this audition, afterall, this is not the first year of the show. But, cruelty for cruelty's sake appears to be the order of the day. Any pretense that this was about finding talent has been dropped.

It's about making fun of people.

This is what I have suspected all along.

We can't expect children to stop bullying and ridiculing and reacting to this cycle of VIOLENCE (yes, I said it, this is violence) when the adults of the world find this entertaining.