Sexting Controversy
Published by aimeelarooo on May 6, 2009 in Opinions-
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Growing controversy over texting.
A growing debate over teens sending sexually explicit photos via cell phones has some asking whether the behavior is dangerous or simply a new form of teenage rebellion.
Sending nude photos via text messaging – often called “sexting” – has become a popular flirting technique among teens that some say can have adverse penalties.
In some cases teenagers are being charged with crimes and being registered as a sex offender , now i do believe there should be consequences to such potentially dangerous behavior, but when you hear sex offender you think of a horrible person doing horrid things not of a teenager making a silly mistake and sending a simple photo to a fellow student or friend.A case in California where a young man is now registered as a sex offender until hr is well in his forties has me appalled, people get away with crimes much worse than this some get caught and just walk away such as cases where a man will get caught drinking and driving and the judge chooses to let him free with probation shouldn’t he be registered as “i could have killed an innocent person”.
Many people believe it is the right move to make to send teens to jail, and be highly punished,but i on the other hand believe we are exaggerating and forgetting we were once young and lustful.
post naked pictures!
This week’s multi-plex offering, The Taking of Pelham 123, normalizes sexting by a young woman (teen) showing her bra via laptop to the handsome boyfriend who says he loves her while riding a subway train publicly to watch her sexting. His love talk is that he’s “got her” and she (like the mythic Echo to Narcissus) echoes the words back to him as her shirt comes off to reveal the bra. The laptop on the highjacked subway train ultimately saves the handsome man’s young life, reinforcing what a good thing it is to sext. No two or more girls or women are shown onscreen at any time in any sort of relationship, friendship or otherwise. No mother onscreen has a relationship with a daughter (athough a key plot point involves a mother and a son).
To attempt prosecution against teen girls who sext their boyfriends in a mass media world of anti-girl normalized sexual politics is sick. The 180 degrees from sick in the fundamentalist religious world would keep the girls in gender ghetto behind rigid dress codes for girls and bowing to God in man’s image. More about this at http://thelongestwar.wordpress.com/
Thiss is BEYOND true!!!!!!!