so i read that post - the one Mrs Hall wrote to explain to teenaged girls in her community why she had unfriended them from her boys' facebook (basically, that her boys were helplessly in thrall to their hormones and couldn't be trusted alone with cute girls).
i'm not posting a link because i don't want to give the satisfaction - but you've probably already read it anyway but you have got to read this rebuttal by Iron Daisy: http://theirondaisywrites.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/fyi-if-youre-a-teenage-boy/ -- i just about died from laughing!
i wasn't sure at first - on the surface, Mrs Hall seemed to make a lot of sense. it seemed nothing more than motherly concern... and then i thought "wait a minute, what kind of family checks out teenaged girls' braless selfies around the dinner table?!" and it all started to unravel. i mean, even when i had to go hardline on one of my kids, it was between her and me; i didn't go dragging out everything all over the dinner table and ask for committee approval and the only ones i absolutely forbade her from communicating with again had no business talking to her in the first place! (not kidding). when she finally got herself sorted, that was it - end of subject, here's your internet back, don't ever make it necessary for me to do that again.
i was upstairs making chocolate muffins (and experimenting with replacing the oil with puréed mandarin sections - didn't work but they did well as part of the liquid) and i thought about girls who commit suicide because of embarrassing photos posted online and i thought about ppl who lost jobs or job opportunities or clients or whatever bec of stuff posted years before and i thought holy fuck - even rape has a statute of limitations!
in california, aggravated (type 3) rape carries a 3-yr statute of limitations: if no charges are laid within 3yrs, the rapist walks free. if he posts a picture of the victim, there's a chance she'll be dead within three years and if she's not, she could be 30 years older and here comes her grandchild asking "is this you, gramma!!!? what's he DOING to you!???".
and i thought about girls dressing skanky. i've always thought that there is an element of responsibility when a girl dresses in a sexually provocative manner. i'm not saying that "men are pigs" - i'm saying that to go into a club where ppl are drinking, doing drugs, and basically ensuring they are not in full possession of their normal good judgment is rather tantamount to walking into a burning building carrying a gas can. i figured it was that element of provocation - kind of like how someone gets the crap kicked out of them but then the court finds out he'd been taunting the guy for the past three weeks - that resulted in reduced sentences.
but then i had an epiphany! a blinding burst of enlightenment!
ppl who rape prostitutes and sexually promiscuous women shouldn't get reduced sentences - they should be punished even more harshly!
think about it. who gets the worse sentence: the guy who robs a bank or the guy who robs a lady on her way home from shopping? the one who steals smokes from a convenience store or the one who steals smokes from someone's house while visiting? drugs stolen from a pharmacy or from some little old pensioner while doing the house cleaning?
in all three cases, the business crime nets the higher sentence. why?
because the goods were there for the asking - all you have to do is meet the contract! if you want money from the bank, just meet their lending criteria. if you want drugs from a pharmacy, get a prescription. if you want cigarettes from the store, hand over the money.
prostitutes and sexually promiscuous girls ARE willing to have sex with you - you just need to meet the requirements (hint: regular use of soap and water is a good start).
so not only did the aggressor commit violence against their person, but it was *gratuitous* violence. all that was needed was to buy the girl a drink or hand over a 20 or a 50, and there you go - sex on tap.
instead, no - you had to go beating her up.
why? because that's what Mrs Hall told you to do! she's written you a Mrs Hall pass! remember: you're just a man so you can't help yourself from acting on your impure thoughts!
i was so amazed by this realization, i had to go eat some muffin batter.
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