Need Something To Use In Your Discussion With Your Teens About Binge Drinking And Sexual Assault And Personal Responsibility?
After watching it, the glaring question to you here is - what about the binge-drinking girl? What can SHE DO specifically to change things? I mean, does she have any freaking responsiblity here at all? Because when the video is backed up and we see the scenario go in reverse, she's the only one who doesn't seem to have any accountablity at all. I was waiting for it, but I waited in vain. Could the video makers have included HER in this scenario, too? Why is she exempt?
WHY? She's the main character here. I just don't get it.
How on God's green earth does treating this chick as a helpless victim somehow EMPOWER women....how is that helpful at all to young teen girls? HOW? By teaching young women that they can go off into the world and binge-drink and then count on all of their little knights-in-shining-armor around them to save them?
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If I showed this to my daughter one day, I would say - "Sweetie...this is how you DON'T want to do it." I'd be straight with her....I'd tell her that - like pretty much every action she takes in this life - binge drinking is on HER. The world isn't a safe place, and she needs to learn to control herself FIRST, and then - and only then - can she rely on other people. It's not the responsiblity of OTHER FREAKING PEOPLE to SAVE HER from alcohol that she willingly ingests. If she goes out and gets sh*tfaced in a bar somewhere, it's not her friends' responsibility...it's not some bartender's responsibility...and it's definitely not some random strangers' responsibility to save her from another strange guy that she decides to walk away with, while holding his hand and giving off the signal to the world around her that she's OK with walking away with him - mind you (how do people know that they're not a couple? Not engaged? Not MARRIED?) In reality, people are not going to make her their business. And in reality, it's not other people's responsibility to save her from the fact that she's out of her mind from alcohol that she willingly shoved in her piehole.
No one else put those drinks in her body but her.
Knowing "who she is" starts with getting HERSELF and HER BODY under control. No one else is going to do that. THAT, ladies, is real empowerment.
After watching it, the glaring question to you here is - what about the binge-drinking girl? What can SHE DO specifically to change things? I mean, does she have any freaking responsiblity here at all? Because when the video is backed up and we see the scenario go in reverse, she's the only one who doesn't seem to have any accountablity at all. I was waiting for it, but I waited in vain. Could the video makers have included HER in this scenario, too? Why is she exempt?
WHY? She's the main character here. I just don't get it.
How on God's green earth does treating this chick as a helpless victim somehow EMPOWER women....how is that helpful at all to young teen girls? HOW? By teaching young women that they can go off into the world and binge-drink and then count on all of their little knights-in-shining-armor around them to save them?
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If I showed this to my daughter one day, I would say - "Sweetie...this is how you DON'T want to do it." I'd be straight with her....I'd tell her that - like pretty much every action she takes in this life - binge drinking is on HER. The world isn't a safe place, and she needs to learn to control herself FIRST, and then - and only then - can she rely on other people. It's not the responsiblity of OTHER FREAKING PEOPLE to SAVE HER from alcohol that she willingly ingests. If she goes out and gets sh*tfaced in a bar somewhere, it's not her friends' responsibility...it's not some bartender's responsibility...and it's definitely not some random strangers' responsibility to save her from another strange guy that she decides to walk away with, while holding his hand and giving off the signal to the world around her that she's OK with walking away with him - mind you (how do people know that they're not a couple? Not engaged? Not MARRIED?) In reality, people are not going to make her their business. And in reality, it's not other people's responsibility to save her from the fact that she's out of her mind from alcohol that she willingly shoved in her piehole.
No one else put those drinks in her body but her.
Knowing "who she is" starts with getting HERSELF and HER BODY under control. No one else is going to do that. THAT, ladies, is real empowerment.