Posted on 08/26/2013 10:27:52 AM PDT by tom h
If social media sites target teenagers to join in the first place, why should they not be held accountable when they are used as vehicles for malice, asks Charlotte Lytton.
Why did photos of a teenage girl performing oral sex on a boy in a field become the second worldwide trending topic on Twitter on Monday? And why were there endless jokes, insults and disapprobation slung her way, and not at the boy concerned?
The incident happened during an Eminem concert at Slane Castle in Ireland. And immediately the girl was branded a slut online with hashtags: 'slanegirl' and 'slaneslut' fast becoming trends.
When it comes to online safety, social media is repeatedly and unrepentantly failing teenagers. ...
A teenage girl giving someone a bl-w job is not shocking standing by and taking photos before posting them to millions of people is ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
" this sort of thing from being high or drunk or tripping - and skinny dipping, nudity, blowjobs, group sex, orgies, and gang bangs are not the least bit new - it was not uncommon then either" We must've grown up in different countries, because I was born and raised in So California and I didn't see any of this ... skinny-dipped once in college and accidentally walked in on a flagrante delicto couple at a party. I think you had a much more dissolute life than most.
"difference now is it's on someones smart phone posted to the world in real time" No, the difference is that girls are sluttier today yet do not want to be told that. In the 1970s, a slut was a slut and they were few and far betweeen. Today, 50% of girls hook up but want to think they retain a shred of purity. They don't.
Boy's haven't changed. It's the girls that have. Girls becoming sluttier have just made it easier for boys to get the milk for free (to those of you who don't know old sayings, "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free").
As a postscript... this afternoon I checked with three of my good buddies (all male, all same age as I am), and questioned them as to whether they had ever witnessed a “public” sex act. Nope. Like me, none of them had. And these aren’t particularly cloistered guys. Average redneck joes.
Semi-related: none of us have ever seen two homos swapping swit in public, either. Just on tv.
That’s a good point about much of the change as being with the girls. It’s a big part of it.
But I still think there are some new things going on. The whole trend about teens taking pictures of their privates, while even diddling with them, and sending them all around. Or instances of students having oral sex in the classroom in front of fellow classmates. Or, how the whole grave topic of something like child-molestation is now a common butt of twitter jokes amongst the teen crowd. Things like that, to the whole mentality and worldview of earlier generations, are so mind-bendingly inconceivable. It’s less about “sex” as it is some kind of bizarre, monstrous cultural depravity.
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