Sexting. You want it. You like it. You're a fourteen old girl who knows how to work your cellphone. Apparently minors sending dirty messages and/or nude pics over the internet/cell-phone-er-net is all the rage.
Now, lots of people are concerned that these minors are being sued for sexual harrasment, even child pornography. Yes - one girl is being convicted of underage child pornography -for sending posting naked pictures of herself online. If she is convicted she will be labelled a sex offender on a permanent criminal record. This is clearly very messed up. I would sooner convict our rather messed up society for inspiring such activity in a girl too young to legally drive. I would also maybe say that if taking pictures of yourself is harassment, then masturbation is rape? I don't have any of these answers. Read Ms. Magazine or something if you want them.
My primary concern is the nature of this "sexting" itself. I'm like: really? Porn? A 13 year old with a blurry unfocused camera-phone flashing her 13 year old crush with her left boob? Netlingo has compiled a list of what it deems most common sexting acronyms among teens. Alot of them are pretty grown-up. But if fourteen year old are really saying FDN to each other, I doubt they are fond of the kind of leather we they think they are.
And I don't think this sexting-craze describes your every day average teenage girl. No, she has other things on her mind. And even if she's saying NIFC (Nude in front of the computer), I doubt that she actually is. She's too insecure about her flat chest, excema on her tummy and fat (they're not actually fat, but she thinks they are) thighs. Yes, teens sometimes get naked in front of each other. And that can lead to sex. But it's hella awkward. The average teen girl is too busy thinking about the less glamorous, less sexy things real teens think about to be writing her own X-rated movie staring her self.
What is it that she's thinking about, you ask? Well, happily for you, I have compiled a list of a few. And I call it PLEXTING C2009 for that oh so awkward and perplexing age that the CW (which I adore) sometimes makes us forget.
SELECTED PLEXTING GLOSSARY:
HDYKIYMGTM - How do you know if you mom's going through menopause?
JFOMUHTC - Just found out my uncle has testicular cancer
TWTSFFF - tampon was too small - fuck!
SCOB - Serious case of bacne [back-acne, for you geezers out there]
TTCBFFF - think the condom broke fuck!
PTNIC - Pregnancy test negative. In the clear.
IAMOWMC - I accidentally made out with my cousin
UI2BR? - You into Battlestar?
3I- Is Incest Illegal?
URXCD -I think you are dyslexic
PD/URPN - I peed on your phone.
So come on people. Let's give these tweens some sympathy, condoms and maybe a copy of a Judy Blume novel. But a lawsuit is just TRPCW! (Totally Retarded in a PC way)
