Parent: Topless photo of female student circulating among students at Northland middle school

[RobinA]

81. What I'm Reading

here is that this girl was young and made a mistake, but that the boys involved are victimizers. In my book they either all get a pass for being young and unable to consider consequences or they are all equally at fault. Or both.

What I object to is this notion that the female is too young, dumb, immature to know that putting a nude picture of herself on the Internet is going to end badly, but the boys should not be too young, dumb and immature to take advantage of the situation. It smacks of the old, Females are fragile flowers given to irrational thought who need protecting from their silliness.

I am a female. I have done dumb things. But I never blame the person whom I do dumb things with when the inevitable happens. I reject the idea that females are incapable of looking out for themselves that I see in so many of these supposedly pro-female posts. If you leave your laptop on a table at Starbucks and come back a day later and it's gone, you have no one to blame but yourself. Which doesn't make the person who took it less of a thief.