I understand you now. I think my issue with these reality shows is that by watching it, we support this kind of behaviour – both Draya’s past and these twitter antics.

What was Draya’s reward for stripping and chasing men, at the expense of her child’s well-being? Fame and (relative) fortune. In my professional capacity I work with “young Drayas” (from a policy perspective), and I think we sometimes neglect to realize the impact the Basketball Wives, Teen Moms and Kardashians have on young women from disadvantaged communities. There are young girls out there who think stripping and escorting/porn is a legitimate employment path. These women on TV that we may mock, are role models to some.

I do agree, we shouldn’t hold someone’s past over them, especially if they have moved beyond wrong behaviours. But I do think we need to remind young people that their past actions, especially in a world that loves to document everything, can and probably will come back to haunt them. If Draya was living right, these tweets would have been fewer and far between.

Draya’s downfall is that she really hasn’t changed. She is still, in my opinion, a neglectful mother. As I’ve said, I’ve never seen her show, but I have seen images of Draya leaving clubs in various stages of undress, pictures that show her “living the life”. And this entire time she has had a son living with her mom on the other side of the country. And when she finally does right by him and brings him to the same state she’s living in, she has the gall to brag about it on twitter asking other people what have they done for their family lately?

Twitter may not have been the appropriate forum, but she does need a dressing down.