Re 6: Hostile Hallways analysis

From: Carlotta Tyler (odc@tiac.net)
Date: Sat Mar 20 1999 - 11:52:55 EST


John wrote:
>Some of it, maybe, but I don't think that all of it can be attributed to
>that. Quite simply, every generation has to undergo a rebellion from their
parents. It was true with our parents, it was true with theirs, and even our
own sons and daughters will rebel against us someday...

John, I hear your experience in high school and I honor that as yours.
For myself, as a teenage girl, the remarks by the boys leaning against the
walls of the long corridor, the gauntlet I needed to run each day, about my
early developing body hit my chest like rocks. It was not benign, it was
not casual. It felt malicious. It did not happen the other way, the girls did
not comment on the boys bodies, sexual prowess, etc.

Later, we got back in college when we followed and 'rated' guys and guessed what
kind of underwear they wore. Their responses, duly recorded on our notebooks,
were angry and chagrined, 'pumped' and turned on.

Carlotta
<odc@tiac.net>

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