Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Stop Being Weird and Gross - Taylor Williams

Old dudes who sexualize kids and teens are super creepy and need to be stopped

Jessica Valenti's "The Cult of Virginity" speaks up about the wrongness of forcing "virginity" on young women (and children who don't even know what sex is). Scientifically, there is no such thing as virginity and yet society still obsesses over it. Many people feel ashamed because they are still virgins when everyone around them has been hooking up for years, others still are proud of this "achievement." My high school had no sex-ed program until after I had moved beyond my sophomore year and kids had to get written permission from their parents to take it. I imagine it was not very effective because the pregnancy rate at my school was the same after the class was added as before.

I'm concerned with the amount of focus people have on the sexualities of young people, as it could be either pedophilic or forcing the idea of sex onto the kids. Beauty pageants are bad about this, allowing girls to begin participating at very young ages and continuing to do so into adulthood.

Bisexuality is normal. People need to chill and stop saying things like "make up your mind" or "ha you're just greedy" or "that's not a real thing you're straight or gay there's no in between."

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