I was treated to an audio-visual feast courtesy of BBC iPlayer last week. Program: Panorama. Running Time: 30 minutes. Presenter: Jeremy Vine. Opinion: Brilliant.
Our schools are rife with a rather new phenomenon that has not manifest itself until this generation. Kids are running around, calling eachother 'Gay' and 'Slut', grabbing eachother in the playground and only god (or teachers) knows what else. Experts have coined the phrase "Sexual Bullying" to describe the problem, and are pointing to Britney Spears' scantily clad moaning as the root of this catastrophic change of behavioural habits amongst children.
Not wanting to be a damp squib here, but I'm fairly sure that kids have been calling eachother 'Gay' and prodding and poking one another since we emerged from primordial soup. Now of course, if real abuse occurs, then this is definitely a problem, and child abuse is never funny, not even on this blog. Having said that, to label childish name-calling as sexual abuse is to turn one's back on the years of all childhood fun.
If calling a child gay is sexual bullying, then I'm guilty. If calling a 13 year old girl a slut is inappropriate and sexual bullying, then I'm guilty. If grabbing a cohort by the dick and balls and hanging on for dear life as he runs around the playground screaming is sexual bullying, again I say, I'm guilty.
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Sexual bullying goes beyond namecalling and grabbing your mate. It involves daily harassing by continuosly making sexual suggestions to someone whose mental capacity is fragile and naive. It can be a group of boys who call a girl with big bust and a deep shame because of it a slapper. The same boys also try to fondle you and brag when theyb manage. and a girl is too scared to tell anyone because if you do everyone sees you as a whiner and a problem. So you just try to evade ALL boys and be invicible all your life. It's when the boy you liked joins the other boys and humiliates you in front the whole class by sneaking up to your and revealing your bra yo everyone.
F you too.
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