{"id":9270,"date":"2012-06-06T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=9270"},"modified":"2012-06-06T01:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:22:05","slug":"quote-of-the-weekcolumn-attacks-anti-tan-motivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/quote-of-the-weekcolumn-attacks-anti-tan-motivations\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Week<br>Column Attacks Anti-Tan Motivations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cLet\u2019s be real. We\u2019re going after Patricia Krentcil not because we\u2019re concerned for her or her daughter\u2019s health and safety, we\u2019re going after her for the same reasons we always go after people \u2014 because she looks different and behaves a bit quirky. Let\u2019s stop hiding behind hypocrisy and \u2018good sounding arguments\u2019 and call it what it is. It\u2019s not concern for their well being \u2014 it\u2019s entertainment, it\u2019s bullying and it\u2019s very disappointing to see.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 Motivational Speaker Joel Waldron.<\/p>\n<p>Waldron argues that much-hyped \u201cTan Mom\u201d Krentcil is being demonized as a bad parent because of her tan appearance, but that parents who harbor actual vices \u2014 drinking or overeating, which subject children to real dangers \u2014 are not demonized. <a href=\"http:\/\/simsbury.patch.com\/articles\/the-tan-mom-isnt-the-only-one-who-should-get-scrutinized-c1fc7d22 \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read the essay click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be real. We\u2019re going after Patricia Krentcil not because we\u2019re concerned for her or her daughter\u2019s health and safety, we\u2019re going after her for the same reasons we always go after people \u2014 because she looks different and behaves a bit quirky. Let\u2019s stop hiding behind hypocrisy and \u2018good sounding arguments\u2019 and call it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Week Column Attacks Anti-Tan Motivations - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cLet\u2019s be real. We\u2019re going after Patricia Krentcil not because we\u2019re concerned for her or her daughter\u2019s health and safety, we\u2019re going after her for the same reasons we always go after people \u2014 because she looks different and behaves a bit quirky. Let\u2019s stop hiding behind hypocrisy and \u2018good sounding arguments\u2019 and call it what it is. It\u2019s not concern for their well being \u2014 it\u2019s entertainment, it\u2019s bullying and it\u2019s very disappointing to see.\u201d \u2014 Motivational Speaker Joel Waldron.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/quote-of-the-weekcolumn-attacks-anti-tan-motivations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Week Column Attacks Anti-Tan Motivations - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cLet\u2019s be real. 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