Wednesday, December 08, 2010

When bad fiction leads to sexual assault

One of my staff has a 15 year old daughter who was bitten by a boy on the neck this week. The child swung at him and pushed him away, but he did leave a horrible mark (teeth identifiable) on her neck that was highly visible in photos three hours later.
This is assault and the boy will be removed from school and sent to a different facility to learn.
Now get this... girls are being bitten all the time now. It's a fad. Engendered by ... wait for it... the success of the Twilight series.
Sigh.
I'm going to find Stephanie Meyer (who's a horrible writer, btw) and make her personally pay for the counseling these young girls are going to need after they are sexually assaulted by some poor young boy who thinks he has to be a vampire to be cool, accepted, or "in." Oh, and I might bite her, too. She deserves it.
In the mean time, please please talk to your daughters. It's not OK for someone to bite you.
It's not sexy, it's not funny and it's not "in." It's assault.

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