That is the Washington Post talking about a girl who was about to have her 14th birthday, in an article that the Post has at the first page of its website today.
It is not a quote that the girl said; it's how the Washington Post has portrayed her, in its relentless, ongoing attempt to normalize the sexual exploitation of children and teenagers.
A picture of the girl sitting on a couch or bed with most of her bare legs showing is part of the article; so is a picture of the girl's 8-year-old sister, wearing short shorts and a t-shirt that says "WOLFHOUNDS BASKETBALL CAMP." There's also a picture of the older girl and her father, with a caption that has their names and says that they're "at a park near their house."
Another quote from the article is:
"In the past, you have heard all of your teachers talk about you. You are 'so mature,' 'intelligent,' '14 going on 45,' and you possess 'so much potential.' Where has that gotten you, may I ask? Absolutely no where!"
Is there someone who wants to try to say that the media doesn't bully me, or that its motive for bullying me isn't that it wants to make sexual abuse legal?
How many people is the media going to exploit?
"The right guy?" THAT'S what the Washington Post is calling whoever it is that a young girl sends a naked picture to, the naive beginning of social torment that not infrequently ends in suicide?
It takes less than a second for a picture to be received and then sent to hundreds or thousands of people or uploaded to a website. Probably, all the phone companies and Internet providers are already hacking the phones of teenagers and children and getting all the pictures from their phones, even those that are never sent to anyone. There's nothing stopping those businesses from stealing pictures and videos from people's phones and computers, circulating them, and uploading them to thousands of websites all over the world.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, May 29, 2016 @ 6:42 a.m.
