I'm shocked...that it's not 100%


/I do get that access to the internet makes it much different than it was in the '80's
//at 12 I thought Porky's 2 was a documentary

It's called flirting.....

Maybe all females should wear a burka, it would solve this problem.

So when the girls wanted me wearing sweat pants to see how dangle I had, I could have sued for big bucks? Sonofabiatch.

How many of them are running for President?

Eddie Adams from Torrance: How many of them are running for President?

Well, ever since Bill Clinton we know that sexual harassment is private and not something to divert anyone from the White House.

It doesn't help that the idea that teenage boys are so horny all the time that they can't be expected to be polite or treat others with respect is reinforced so often.

The "boys will be boys" mentality is pretty harmful when it comes to dealing with sexual harassment.

QT_3.14159: Yes, because exploring your own sexuality means that you're a slut and must now receive any and all verbal and physical advances with equal fervor.

Consenting to one person one time means you've consented to every person all the time!

Ugh. What a gross mindset.

These kids are pathetic. My kindergarten, middleschool, and highschool were far worse than anything described. It reads like the expect to live in some bubble where no one says or does anything that makes them feel bad.

seadoo2006: but seriously, I want to know when exactly the feminist movement got it in their heads that a cat call is now harassment?

There's a spectrum. I don't think catcalling should be grounds for filing a complaint against the person, but I do think it's incredibly rude and obnoxious and it does make me feel uncomfortable. I'd rather be able to go about my business and enjoy my day to day life without some guy I don't know and have no desire to interact with deciding that not only is he going to check out my ass, he's going to make damn sure I know he's doing it.

Genevieve Marie: It doesn't help that the idea that teenage boys are so horny all the time that they can't be expected to be polite or treat others with respect is reinforced so often.

The "boys will be boys" mentality is pretty harmful when it comes to dealing with sexual harassment.

/shrug teenagers are hornballs without fully developed emotional reasoning capacities and with immature self-concepts. They are trying to figure out who they are, and how they fit in with other people around them. Sex is a BIG part of that. That applies to both sexes; the fact that there are gendered rules for how that behaviour expresses itself does not mean its not done by both sexes.

The "boys will be boys" mindset comes from the fact that if you don't actively try to control them, a teenage boy will do various sorts of things to try and get teenage girls to have sex with him, some of them stupid, some of them not, some of them agressive or abusive, some of them not. The way that behaviour expresses depends on the individual and his social context. The trick is, teenage girls will engage in analogous behaviours intended to attract the boys left to their own devices. It's just that our society tends to be more controlling towards the girls while promoting a narrative that girls are somehow innocent or pure compared to boys.

It's a crock. In early times, a woman was almost always a mother by the time she was 15, because in the absence of social pressures otherwise, most girls are just as interested in the boys as the boys are interested in the girls.

The problem is not that teenagers are sexually agressive towards each other, it's that the limits society places are poorly and unevenly enforced, and that there are double standards of what is acceptable in both directions.