Facebook has a solid history of making breastfeeding moms mad, and now the site has moved to the other end of the parenting spectrum. An angry petition aimed at getting a page called "12-year-old slut memes" taken down hasn't worked. Moms who have found their young daughters' photos and words are being used by the page run by two 19-year-olds from Australia whose stated mission is "slut shaming" are mad.
As they should be. Two grown men have no business picking on young girls! And the very words "slut shaming" are despicable.
And yet, moms, dads, there's a very important something being ignored in all the sturm and drang here. Would this page exist if girls weren't loading the web with questionable images and inappropriate?
Hold up, let me be clear. This doesn't excuse the lascivious nature of the 230,000-some people who are checking out pictures of young girls on Facebook. It doesn't mean 12-year-old slut memes belong on Facebook.
But while you're fighting the good fight against Facebook to get the page yanked, you might want to do a double-check on your kid's wall. Is she posing half clothed with that ridiculous duck face? Does your 15-year-old have a status like this one (warning before you click ... it was so bad we didn't want to repeat it here)?
I try to avoid friending kids, but a few have slipped in here and there. And some of the stuff I see on there makes it pretty clear their parents NEVER check in. Fifteen-year-olds building elaborate beer can pyramids? Fourteen-year-olds talking about sex? Something tells me they aren't worried about Mom and Dad getting a look-see.
This disgusting page needs to be pulled off the Internet, and the whole controversy should be a wake-up call to parents: your little darlings aren't just talking to friends about their homework on Facebook. Now do something about it!
And let's get this page down! Sign the petition.
What's your Facebook policy? What would you do if your daughter ended up on a page like this one?
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Nobody has any right to pick on children. Gross old dudes especially.
My fb policy? Is no. You're not allowed to have one until high school, if its still around by then. And no twitter either.
When they ARE old enough, I WILL have that password, or I will block the site entirely from their phones & the family computer.
If they abuse the privelage, I will personaly delete their account. Its about their own protection, and good behavior. I don't need my kids to be perfect angels, or even polite all the time. But they will NOT be bullies, or inaproperiate in photographs. They will act like the intelligent, fun, young people I know them to be.
Start acting and dressing like a lady and then people will stop treating you like garbage.
Should people make fun of 12 year olds? Possibly not, but maybe this will teach them that society won't accept slutty behavior and they can clean up tgeir acts before they truly become sluts.
BTW, what the heck is a 12 year old doing having a fb account? That right there is why 12 year olds think they are adults...they are allowed to act like them!
Anyone who is saying these girls should be shamed for dressing like this remember that the reality of today is most of these girls have very young mothers themselves that probably condone this. MTV is no longer for music, but reality shows that pay you to get pregnant or wear skimpy clothes and drink yourself stupid. Teenagers are sneaky and parents can check up on their kids all the time and still not see this. Two Facebook pages are normal for teenagers these days, one for parents and one for friends. Personally I do not think "kids stopping these behaviors with bullying" is the right way to go or ever think. Let's condone one bad behavior to stop another. Schools need to be more involved, calling the parents and telling them their children are not going by dress code and if it continues, suspend them. It was that way when I went to school, but now they seem to not care.
I agree that what these two young men are doing is wrong, and no, I don't think that facebook, as a social media company, should allow these types of pages. I think it's exploitive. But, if you read the original article, it says most pictures were copied from the girls facebook accounts. A better question to ask would be- why are these underage girls posting sexual pictures of themselves on facebook? If you don't want someone to see it, don't post it on the internet. If these girls took/agreed to take the photos and disseminated them by posting them on the web, I don't feel sorry for them. Bad judgement aside, what on earth made them think it could possibly ok?
Anyone that thinks its okay to label a legal CHILD as a slut has their head up their ass.