Many of you will have read about the horror of the 2 year old who was dragged into a lagoon and drowned by an alligator in Florida. His parents witnessed the whole thing and Dad tried to grab the child from the alligator's mouth, unsuccessfully.
The thought of it makes me feel sick. I have a 2 year old son. We also have friends who lost their 2 year old son in an accident a few months ago. I've seen firsthand the utter devastation that his death has left behind. His mother can barely function.
A FB friend today posted a "meme" with a photo of a young child covered in a beach towel with an alligator graphic on it. The design is such that the child looks as though it's in the jaws of an alligator. The tag line? "Disney's new range of beach wear."
I'm just sickened that anyone can see comic value in the violent death of a toddler. IMO there's something wrong with you if you are amused by that. It's not witty or pithy it's simply cruel and grotesque.
I posted a response that said essentially, "Not funny. At all." The predictable response was that I needed to "lighten up" and that "I didn't need to look at it" which was something of a red rag to me. I told her that I wished I'd had a moron filter on my FB page so that I hadn't seen it." (Not my finest moment - I'm usually pretty quick witted - but I was still dumbfounded that she thought that was amusing in any way.)
The woman in question is my husband's (equal) business partner's wife, and part time employee. My husband has just told me this puts him in an awkward position and why couldn't I have just ignored it?
I'm pissed off beyond belief, moreso with my husband than anything else. This "don't make waves, don't ruffle feathers" attitude. The older I get, the less time I have for "keeping the peace". People need to be told when they're spouting BS. Particularly BS about a child's death.
I'm so disappointed that my husband thinks that I should just have ignored something like this. And I can't believe anyone could make fun of a child's death.