“I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours.”

ROTW Contributor: Angela Durden

There’s a new book out wherein the author interviewed 200 girls around 13 years old. “Wait what????” was one girl’s reaction when a boy texted his need for seeing nude pictures of her. The author went on with all the usual politically-correct claptrap about how these girls weren’t victims but they really are, and wow, aren’t we all now confused since we women are all so much more educated and wasn’t education supposed to stop all this sexual stuff by boys and girls?

Here’s a full quote from the author’s Linkedin posting about her book.

Ms. Sales said, “This isn’t a book about how girls are victims. ‘Victim’ isn’t a word I’d use to describe the kind of girls I’ve seen, surviving and thriving in an atmosphere which has become very hostile to them, much of the time. How can this be, when girls are graduating from college in higher numbers than ever before, when they’re becoming leaders in their chosen fields in greater numbers? From what we hear, American girls are among the most privileged and successful girls in the world. But tell that to a thirteen-year-old who gets called a “slut” and feels she can’t walk into a school classroom because everybody will be staring at her, texting about her on their phones. ‘We need to puzzle out why women have made more strides in the public arena than in the private arena,’ says Elizabeth Armstrong, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan who specializes in sexuality and gender. Women, and girls as well. We need also to examine the ways in which girls sometimes echo the sexism they experience in their dealings with one another. For it isn’t only boys who slut-shame, not only boys who hold girls to a double standard.”

Oh, boohoo, cry me a river. Yes, the above paragraph is claptrap, and for this reason: People are people and always have been.

If you’ve read my memoir, Twinkle, you’ll know that my childhood was fraught with abuse from grown men. But there is one story in there about a young fella, a second grader like myself at the time, who said to me in the woods one day, “I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours.”

Given my history with sexual abuse you would have thought I’d have known what he was talking about. But I didn’t know a boy was a miniature man. To me, at that time, boys were icky. The young fella saw I was clueless and so volunteered to show his first.

Oh! Helloooo! Got it!

And down came my pants wherein we then proceeded to sort of mutually admire the others equipment. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was my first good experience with human sexuality. He was admiring me for the awesomeness that I was. He wasn’t abusing me. And I knew the difference between the two.

So you see, little boys have always and will always want to see little girls in their naked state. They’ve always asked to see what is usually covered. And there have always been and always will be little girls who’ll gladly let them see it.

But the fact that Ms. Sales asks the question above (in bold and blue) completely shows she has absolutely no understanding of the role of human nature in these things. Therefore, what assumptions, conclusions, and fixes she comes up with are nothing but claptrap destined to become social engineering laws of the land.

As a kid, I saw men who gave in to their abnormal desires for little girls. So focused on handling them and their perversions, I missed all the good men who would gladly have taken those creeps back behind the woodshed and beat their butt if I’d have asked. I know that now. And I appreciate these good men.

I bet the young fella who politely asked to see mine (and eagerly showed me his) grew up to be a good man. How do I know? Because he asked politely, hell, worshipfully even.

Since that second grade time in the woods I’ve been asked plenty of other times by other boys in various grades for a peek. I told all of them no. They went away. Boom. Done.

Now, I know Ms. Sales is somehow trying to fit social media into the narrative as if that is the problem. After all, there has to be a demon somewhere and she wants to sell books, so titles are very important, right? But social media isn’t the problem. The problem are these idiot parents who buy their kids the smart phones that can connect to social media, and take and send pictures.

Hey, Parents, want to stop your daughter from dropping trou and and sending naked photos to boys? Get them a phone that only dials numbers. But there is nothing parents can do to stop girls and boys from calling their precious little baby girl a slut — whether or not they are one. It’s human nature — and human nature will not change. All parents can do is guide their children through how to ignore those idiots.

So all you social engineers out there with your fancy degrees, you can stop scratching your head in puzzlement that your brilliant solutions did not work because, you see, God made us that way, to want to procreate. In order to make more humans, we must see, touch, and — dare I say it? — enjoy parts that belong to others. Hormones pretty much start acting on a human body from when the sperm hits the egg, so from early days we’ve got kids naturally drawn to those parts.

The problem isn’t social media or lack of brains.

It’s the Nanny State’s policies of “you’re too stupid to handle it yourself, let us legislate human nature out of existence” come to haunt us. It’s the inevitable decline in personal responsibility brought on by socialist-style thought processes when applied by decree to change human nature.