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To: mindprism.com
Not to pounce on you with an elephant gun, but your post makes me think of a little girl I know who is 8 years old and having to deal with the 'guilt' of tearing the world apart because she told what her daddy was doing to her.

Let's see you are comparing a father raping his little girl with a mom earning a living as a topless dancer?????????????????

444 posted on 05/20/2002 7:41:58 PM PDT by Nov3
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To: Nov3
Let's see you are comparing a father raping his little girl with a mom earning a living as a topless dancer?????????????????

I sure am. In the associative sense, not in the quantitative sense. Its a cultural question:

How long would the little girl who was raped remained silent if 'our' culture was different than it is now. It was sheer luck and acute perception that these rapes were even detected, because these rapes met the legal definition of penetration - amounting to parting of the labia - there was no penetration that would cause pain...

So the question becomes, applicable or not to this particular case --- How much does the sexualization of children by our culture permit and promote child abuse?

No one knows, but we can make educated inferences.

Im probably the most libertarian person you'll meet, but with those principles you must accept the rights of people who do not wish to associate with persons (or thier children) who are contrary to thier values.

THAT, however is on the legal level. On the philosophical level I will admit the school is being a bit of a stickler considering the age of the kid, but it does appear they tried to accomodate the mother with other means.

Personally, I got no beezkneez in forming any opinion on how the woman is raising her kid because Im way too far afield to form one. I applaud her for being a christian, but even that is qualified because, well, topless single parents is what our current situation needs less of. Sorry.

445 posted on 05/20/2002 11:33:12 PM PDT by mindprism.com
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