Slog - Comments on It's In the PI: Teenagers Aren't Adults! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g Super weird headline and story in today's PI. The headline is: "All-ages raves often trouble for young girls." The story fails to deliver on the alarmist headline, and so, just feels like an alarmist headline. In fact, the only concrete thing the article says about raves actually highlights why all-ages shows are part of the solution for teenagers, not part of the problem. The PI writes: Raves can offer protection not found at unsupervised keg parties, parking lots and other teen hangouts. The parties can come with insurance policies and security charged with helping to keep kids safe. As for... Copyright 2007 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:26 -0800 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:51:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Liberal Dad It's 6am and a fourteen year old girl is at a drug party with intoxicated twenty year olds.


...nothing to see here, keep moving along..

]]> Liberal Dad http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057443 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057443 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:33:08 -0800 Comment by dewsterling Gender inequality aside for a moment; 14 or 15 year olds should probably not be at an all-ages party until 7 in the morning, regardless of whether they are male or female.

However, since this article presents a one-sided representation and goes on to claim that girls are ill-equipped to deal with adult-responsibility; by default, does that mean that teenage boys ARE ready for those privileges? When are girls, then, ready to have adult responsibilites and privileges bestowed upon them? 20? 21? Maybe girls should be kept indoors and made to wear burkas in public? That will keep 'em safe, right?

]]> dewsterling http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057453 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:53:17 -0800 Comment by American Woman You guys keep talking about the house party. But the PI article purports to be talking about raves.

]]> American Woman http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057480 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:16:20 -0800 Comment by fnarf Surely there's some middle ground between "partying with dudes twice her age" and "burkas".

]]> fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057484 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057484 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:18:43 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist FNARF - there is middle-ground, it's called "parenting." I don't claim to know the family situations of the teens who were murdered, but I do wonder how many kids have gotten revised curfews this week.

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057897 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c057897 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:03:34 -0800 Comment by Josh Alright the article definately could have been thought about before written. I know as a 16 yr old male in the mid 90's I went to raves and was honest with my parents. They didnt appreciate me being out that late and all that but they would much rather me do that then going to a house party and getting smashed then trying to drive home. I used to party at naf, and the warehouses off of first, and then the x center when they opened that never once felt out of place or that I shouldn't have been there. I guess my point is that you cannot make a gereralization to an entire group of people like the media is doing with this. A person is a person and only they really know if they can handle the pressures.

]]> Josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c058164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/girls_will_be_g#c058164 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:51:03 -0800