Sex and the Ivy

Quotables: Adolescent Angst

Filed under: Quotables — Elle October 17, 2006 @ 1:46 am

“It’s so awkward when people assume I’m some slut like you.” –my 14-year-old sister

I am horrified. She’s just a kid. And why is my sex life a topic of conversation in California? High schoolers, cease fire. Pronto.

9 Responses to “Quotables: Adolescent Angst”

  1. Evelina Says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 2:38 am

    wow

  2. jb Says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 1:02 pm

    Is your high school that garrulous? Or were you really that ‘involved’ there?

  3. Sam Jackson Says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    Welcome to 2006.

  4. wtf Says:
    October 18th, 2006 at 12:32 am

    maybe if you didn’t have a sexblog that could be seen anywhere in the country it wouldn’t be a topic of conversation in places you didn’t want to be, especially in places where your sister can get shit for it

  5. elle Says:
    October 18th, 2006 at 12:36 am

    Irrelevant. Strangers shouldn’t stop me on the street and teenagers shouldn’t bug my sis. A blog is not an invitation to intrude on one’s life.

  6. wtf Says:
    October 18th, 2006 at 1:08 am

    people do a lot of things they shouldn’t do whether it’s stop you on the street or bug your sister. But you have the choice to broadcast your personal business and in so choosing you open yourself and your family up to intruding on your life. You leave the opportunity there even if people shouldn’t take it. If you make that choice you need to take responsibility for it and not complain about the way it may be hurting you or your loved ones.

    I mean seriously, even if it is totally immoral and obnoxious of people back in california to mention these things to your sister, what do you really expect from a bunch of high school kids? No matter how right, wrong, fair, or unfair. what do you expect?

    the comment was harsh indeed, but you can’t deny that you present yourself as extremely sexual and sexual outside the context of a monogomous relationship. Again, your choice, but you have to be accountable. and especially accountable if you are going to tell the world about it.

    i’m not quite sure what your intentions are with this blog, but if you are going to be so explicit and upfront about your sexual escapedes, i’d also appreciate you not acting surprised or completely innocent when people judge your behavior.

    if you talk explicitly about your life on a blog that anybody with a computer can see, do expect people not to talk about it? and not make judgements? granted it is unfair to judge your sister based on your actions, but you weren’t just responding to people judging your sister. You were asking teens to stop taking shots at you for your sex life. but what do you really expect people to do with this information if not make opinions about you or the character of elle.

    you write very effectively, but the effect seems to be that you create a persona who whoever cocky she may be, doesn’t have much respect for herself sexually.

  7. N Says:
    October 18th, 2006 at 1:20 am

    WTF does it mean to “have respect for [yourself} sexually?”
    What century do we live in, again?

  8. diana Says:
    October 22nd, 2006 at 7:38 pm

    Comparisons between you and your sister are inevitable if unfair, unwarranted, and uncalled for.

    As for your sex life, I’m not too sure that’s the topic so much as the other similarities between you two. More often than not, it’s she who brings up the “slut” issue.

    Sorry if this comment in itself is an intrusion.

  9. julie Says:
    January 9th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    oh sweetie, you admit to being an attention whore and then pretend that you don’t want to be stopped on the street? yes you do. you aren’t even really a slut, you’re just a chubby, unattractive little girl who talks about who she fucks so as to seem interesting.

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