Posts by Tess Rooney
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Michelle Obama is a grown woman who can wear what she wants to fully aware of the consequences of doing so. I'm not suggesting that we curtail adult women from dressing how they want to.
Nor was the girl grown out of her skirt, she had hitched it up on purpose.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Having sex at 14 didn't ruin my life on the surface. I avoided all the traps that Family Planning warn one about. But it wasn't good for me. It certainly affected the way I saw myself. If I had my time over I wished someone had warned me of the deep but subtle consequences of embarking on adult relationships when one is still a child.
My point is that we should not be allowing teenagers to dress provocatively. The teacher should not have said what she did, but the rule she was trying to enforce was IMO a sensible one. No one should call anyone a slut. And I loathe the way the girl has been spoken about and the way people have been nasty about her name.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
" Or they might feel like people with sexual feelings and agency! Which is BAD."
I'm sure what your experience has been, but mine was that I was sexually active at 14. He was a nice guy, we used a condom, I didn't get any STIs or pregnant. But it doesn't mean that 14 year old girls are emotionally mature enough to be sexually active. I think we should encourage teenagers to wait until they are adults before having sex because with sexual activity comes adult consequences.
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My point is here: short skirts
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Oh COME ON! I was a teenage girl and I definitely dressed to make boys notice me. Why can't we be honest about the fact that girls dress to attract the male gaze?
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Heh, check out this:
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In Greymouth there's a variety of school and each sort of has it's own niche. There's one that's very academic, one sporty etc. Parents can choose the school that fits best with their child's needs.
We chose to send our kids to the Catholic school which is known for being small and quite a kind school. It's focus is very much on Christian values - kindness, forgiveness, loving your neighbour, charity towards the poor. The parents who sent their kids to St Patrick's wanted a school environment that focused on that, but how can you measure that in a national standard?
I'm not saying that the school fails the kids in academic or sporting ways, it doesn't, but I'd hate to see the focus of the school shift because of national standard pressure.
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That was a very sad read... Thank you for sharing with us. I think it's criminal that children don't get a proper lunch time to play, eat and relax.
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I have no real idea what's gone on in this case, but I do anticipate that it is likely there's more going on than has been reported.
I hope you're right, but still the media reporting gives us the message that we can't share sexual fantasies online because it provides consent for a future sexual encounter that we may not actually want.
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No. The question is "is it reasonably possible that she provided consent for this sexual encounter?" It is a decidedly different question.
Fair enough. Although I'm unsure of how date rape, or rape within a relationship could ever get prosecuted then.
The whole thing give me the heeby jeebies because it shows me how vulnerable rape victims are to the attitudes of others.