Yay!  Let’s glorify how fantastic it is to be pregnant at 16!  woo woo.  Nickelodeon is off my list of kid channels.  The network that gave us Dora, Diego, Wonderpets, and Backyardigans is on the blocked list.  In what amounts to nothing less than shameful, they have decided to go ahead and air the final season of Jamie Lynn Spears’ Zoey 101. 

What the hell, right?  It was already in the can and ready to go and after last season’s success what is the harm in airing the show?  Well, I for one am disgusted.  I am anything but a prude, but I am sick and fucking tired of everyone making as though teenage pregnancy is no big deal.  I was twenty when I had my first child and it was traumatic and overwhelming.  The idea that this child is pregnant is tragic and yet predictable with the mother of hers and the sister.  Should she have to wear a scarlett A?  No, but she shouldn’t be plastered all over my kid’s favorite television network either.

I read they are going to do a special with Linda Ellerby about teenage pregnancy.  Well that is just peachy, considering there aren’t many teens watching Nick.   It is a bunch of 7-12 year olds.   Gee that idea makes me feel sooo much better.

I think The Superficial has it right:

If Nickelodeon is worried about kids thinking pregnancy is cool, right after Zoey they should air episodes of John & Kate Plus 8. I watched John & Kate once and literally got five vasectomies. I even paid the neighbor kid to come over to my house each morning and punch me in the nuts.