The Judgement of Paris
May. 5th, 2014 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootSo a friend of mine posted this up as his status update:
Is it just me but are teh boobs on 14 and 15 year old girls getting bigger than in the day when I was 14 and 15
And the response has been about how little they wear and the decay of morality and kids on the street and how dangerous they are, and how it's growth hormones in the meat, and how they know the effect they have and they like the attention and how men are programmed to be turned on by post-pubescent women and how lots of countries around the world have the age of consent at 14... anything and everything other than admitting personal responsibility. The sense is that once a girl starts to develop breasts, it's not fair for men to have to treat her like the child she still is; and god knows, once menses have started, all bets are off. She is now officially in phwoar land, where it's only natural for men to stick their hands down their pants whenever she is in the vicinity.
It made me recall Romeo and Juliet:
CAPULET […]
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
CAPULET
And too soon marr'd are those so early made.
(1.3.2)
It's incredible that a point well understood in 1595 should be questioned in 21st century Britain.
Is it just me but are teh boobs on 14 and 15 year old girls getting bigger than in the day when I was 14 and 15
And the response has been about how little they wear and the decay of morality and kids on the street and how dangerous they are, and how it's growth hormones in the meat, and how they know the effect they have and they like the attention and how men are programmed to be turned on by post-pubescent women and how lots of countries around the world have the age of consent at 14... anything and everything other than admitting personal responsibility. The sense is that once a girl starts to develop breasts, it's not fair for men to have to treat her like the child she still is; and god knows, once menses have started, all bets are off. She is now officially in phwoar land, where it's only natural for men to stick their hands down their pants whenever she is in the vicinity.
It made me recall Romeo and Juliet:
CAPULET […]
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
CAPULET
And too soon marr'd are those so early made.
(1.3.2)
It's incredible that a point well understood in 1595 should be questioned in 21st century Britain.
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