Dear Editor,
An advertisement is currently being aired on television by GT&T about the Bluetooth contraption that is affixed to the ears, thus leaving the hands free, to do anything – or so the advertisement says.
Now the main characters in the picture are an adult male and two young girls, chosen to depict teenagers. The storyline is clear: use the Bluetooth, for your hands are now free to do anything.
While she would be doing her homework, etc, she could chat with this adult philanderer, as the ad clearly shows. Then the other teen drives up, and reminds Bluie to call her; her hands would also be free, as would be her morals.
The makers of the ad are clearly bent on getting their message across. They could have chosen mature actors and a theme consistent with the needs of adults, for after all, the telephone was intended in the first place to be used for serious matters.
In this country, as seems to be the problem everywhere on the planet, adult men want to have sex with immature females/children. My contention is that ads like these aid and abet this nastiness.
Most of what occurs in our society is encouraged by the money-making culture. Witness the fact that for 14 years persons have been writing to the love columns in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News. The responses given to the letter writers suggest that those columnists condone the above.
Yours faithfully,
Hafiz Rahman
Editor’s note
At no time in the ‘agony aunt’ columns of Sunday Stabroek has paedophilia ever been condoned; quite the opposite, in fact.
