I grew up in an area with a lot of Catholic high schools, and had lots of friends who attended. Let me assure you, there were no regulations requiring specific hairstyles for the girls - all they had to do was keep it neat. Likewise, there wasn’t any sort of “no make-up” rule - you just weren’t allowed to apply it with a spatula (which is a good idea anyway). If the girls from St. Louis looked plain, it’s much more likely that it was the result of a local cultural norms than Catholic school rules.
It’s nice that you can enjoy your “completely different mindset,” but don’t ascribe the difference to bullsh*t reasons.
I too hate to see tarted up little girls-I’m hoping that’s what you’re referring too, and not basic prettiness. Jewelry and hair styles, and pretty dresses. I was a total girly-girl, and I adored those things. Making them illegal just to avoid the rest of it?
However, making it illegal is completely impossible. I can’t see it working.
Now that is unfair and uncalled for - it is approaching a personal insult of a very nasty kind.
The OP was making a serious point based on an observation he made. As it happens I think his proposals are daft and I agree with what you say but there is no need to impune his motives.
Use shame and embarrassment. Spend some money to hire people to walk around and give condoms and/or The Pill to any skankily-dressed young’un. Also have them give advice about safe sex, contraception, and STDs. Preferably very loudly.
Yes, although it has also taken on a broader meaning encompassing the section of working class culture otherwise categorised as chav, charver, ned, and various other unsavoury terms by middle class snobs.
Do you? If only there was a forum where you could call Lust4Life a paedophile to his face, instead of dancing round the question and seeing how many people are on your side before you come out with it. :dubious:
No. When a person, male or female, of any age, dresses in such a way as to call attention to themselves, I think it’s unfair to call people out for actually, y’know, paying attention.
I dressed like a bona fide whore as a young teen. It had absolutely no impact on my actions or morals. I just liked sparkly things and thought my new body was fun. I attracted just as much attention, though, in my school-mandated uniform-- a pervert magnet that thing was.
I’m an American who went to Uni in England for a year, and yeah, I agree with the OP completely. I see the issue as just an example of children growing up much faster in Europe, too fast. Young girls all over the globe want to dress and look mature, but in a culture that promotes very young alcohol consumption and late night clubbing it has gotten out of hand. God, I sound like my grand father.
Bottom line, children this young dressing and acting this way is harmful to them.
On a related matter, what the hell is up with Essex girls wearing white shoes?
So he’s extrapolating a lot from one long gawk. My point stands.
Yet teenage pregnancies in Europe are much lower than in America. Dressing older and behaving in some more adult ways doesn’t necessarily indicate harmful actions.
The Independent
“The report said sexually transmitted infection rates have risen rapidly over the past 12 years, with chlamydia and HIV both increasing by 300 per cent, gonorrhoea by 200 per cent, and syphilis by 2,000 per cent.”
“A recent Unicef report put the UK at the bottom of a table of 21 countries for children’s well-being. It found that more children in the UK have had sexual intercourse by the age of 15 than in any other country”
