Call Me a Prude
...Call me a prude, but it seems to me that teenage girls need to be more circumspect about their appearance. It’s not just that they are wearing make-up at age eleven, but they are wearing skirts up to their navel, and their tops reveal, expose, and otherwise market hills and valleys that leave very little to the imagination.
What ever happened to modesty? Where are their parents? Why haven’t the schools stepped in? Is this what we want, to reduce adolescence girls to slutting their futures away at an ever-earlier age? Are we to revert to some sort of meat-marketplace where the attraction is simply availability? What happened to feminism? Yeah, right.
There seems to be an abundance of poor white trash in this neck of the woods. A horde of teenage mothers, and plague of round-heeled daughters following them along this disastrous course. I remember reading an article about these kind of girl/women. They look fetching until they are twenty, and then they look fifty.
They hawk their obvious wares, as though they were trawling for bites. And there are plenty ready to take the bait. Brain-dead teenage boys, if that isn’t redundant, with out-of-control hormones, and a very confused sense of reality. Like their mindless female counterparts, the boys have been raised by television, groomed by shallow fantasy and future-less goals. What’s to stop them from falling into a life-squelching trap of a mis-managed late-night debauchery in the back of a car?
Probably the sight of their older friends — the high school parents — whose lives, if they aren’t over, are at least on hold f or twenty years. And then what.
In Redding a while back, an attractive 16-year-old girl disappeared. The last person to apparently see her was her 29-year-old boyfriend, a martial arts instructor with a police record for violence. They’d been having sex for more than a year. Sorry, but I think that when people do such a lousy job of parenting, it’s hard to have as much sympathy for them.
I remember a story of another 15-year-old who shot her mother to death because the mother wanted her to stay in school. The mother was thirty.
The problem with all of this is not the issue of fallen virtues, but that most of those who get knocked up are either ignorant or emotionally damaged or both. And that does not auger well for civilization as we know it. How does the cycle end? How do these people feed themselves?
I believe society has a right to be protected from the failure of parents. I suggest that the schools enforce dress and social codes, and instill not the morality of tightly wound, but the logic of the clear mind.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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