Monday, August 22, 2011

Girls behaving badly

In the 1970s, in a high school in West Quebec, a girl named Constance did something that seemed uncharacteristic not only of her but of girls in general. During a break before the start of a music class, she picked up a recorder owned by a cute boy in the class. He was away from his desk. Then she turned so that only her best friend and a number of other girls could see what she was doing, and rubbed the mouthpiece of this instrument against her crotch and put it back at the boy's place.

Constance otherwise had well-earned reputation as one of the good girls at the school. A small number of us guys saw it happen despite her efforts to keep it a secret. We discussed it among ourselves a bit. At the time, things like this seemed isolated and did not seem to say anything about girls in general. That girls did crazy things driven by sexual tension was a common theme in male fantasies but no one believed girls really did these things. A single concrete example couldn't change the carefully maintained cultural illusion that girls are morally superior beings.

Then came the Internet and Facebook!

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