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- I couldn’t go into Boston to watch the fireworks and listen to the Pops with Alicia at her boathouse because my mom thinks a terrorist is going to blow up the train. Which is real sound, logical thinking. Isn’t the point of terrorism to affect your everyday life? And isn’t letting them do that letting them win? Bravo. Tacy can’t go to Boston because terrorists will get her.
- I can’t go camping with my best friends either because… well because they have penises. And Penises are evil. Because even if you don’t touch them at all, being near them is enough to get you pregnant. Through thin air. I swear to God.
- And if that’s not the case then it must be because I’m a teenage girl, and all teenage girls are sluts. After all, there’s no way Tacy could sleep at the same campsite as 3 boys and not get pregnant or an STD. This is because she is a teenage girl, and the #1 rule of raising a teenage girl is: She is a slut. No exceptions.
They may have cut health for my 4 years at high school, but I’m almost positive you need to have sex to contract STD’s and/or get pregnant..
- But what if she’s not a slut? Then the reason is what they say it is: they don’t want their daughter to get a reputation. Which is brilliant. A reputation from whom? The spies who follow me? Going camping with your friends means you get a reputation. A reputation for what now, may I ask? Because people are going to say “Tacy went camping with boys. Ipso Facto, she’s a slut. Never done a bad thing in her life, but she goes camping with boys... God help the whore”. Furthermore, people are going to find out. Because it’s a big deal, you know, when you go camping. Everyone in town finds out about it… BIG GOSSIP! TEENAGERS WENT CAMPING!
You’d have to tell people that I went, and then imply that I’m less than a lady
- Well at least the Zysks aren’t the only parents who think this way… even though it was Mr. and Mrs. Bouzinov who told Max he ought to invite Tacy to camp with them. Even though Mr. McCabe and Mrs. Wilson asked who was going and said “have fun” with no change in manner after a girl was mentioned. But Mr. and Mrs. Bouzinov are super-liberal parents. They let Max get away with studying for the AP tests in February, giving him all of January off to do regular school work! Can you imagine? I guess growing up in Soviet Russia really gives you a laissez-faire attitude on life.
Even Max’s parents, as nuts and overbearing as they are, can’t see why it’s a big deal if I go… Because it isn’t a big deal. At least the rocket scientists get it.
My best guess is that my parents don’t have anyone to boss around anymore. They’ve sent two off to college, and next year they’re in an empty nest. Sure, they love me. I don’t doubt it. But they also love being able to tell me what I can and cannot do. Next year they aren’t around to tell me that they “trust me” but they “don’t trust boys”. Next year they can’t dictate what I do and where I go, and give me a “NO, you may NOT go have fun with your friends” without a valid explanation. Without discussion.
So they’re getting in it now. While they still can. 49 days to control my life. Don’t think I’m not counting.
- I can’t go camping with my best friends either because… well because they have penises. And Penises are evil. Because even if you don’t touch them at all, being near them is enough to get you pregnant. Through thin air. I swear to God.
- And if that’s not the case then it must be because I’m a teenage girl, and all teenage girls are sluts. After all, there’s no way Tacy could sleep at the same campsite as 3 boys and not get pregnant or an STD. This is because she is a teenage girl, and the #1 rule of raising a teenage girl is: She is a slut. No exceptions.
They may have cut health for my 4 years at high school, but I’m almost positive you need to have sex to contract STD’s and/or get pregnant..
- But what if she’s not a slut? Then the reason is what they say it is: they don’t want their daughter to get a reputation. Which is brilliant. A reputation from whom? The spies who follow me? Going camping with your friends means you get a reputation. A reputation for what now, may I ask? Because people are going to say “Tacy went camping with boys. Ipso Facto, she’s a slut. Never done a bad thing in her life, but she goes camping with boys... God help the whore”. Furthermore, people are going to find out. Because it’s a big deal, you know, when you go camping. Everyone in town finds out about it… BIG GOSSIP! TEENAGERS WENT CAMPING!
You’d have to tell people that I went, and then imply that I’m less than a lady
- Well at least the Zysks aren’t the only parents who think this way… even though it was Mr. and Mrs. Bouzinov who told Max he ought to invite Tacy to camp with them. Even though Mr. McCabe and Mrs. Wilson asked who was going and said “have fun” with no change in manner after a girl was mentioned. But Mr. and Mrs. Bouzinov are super-liberal parents. They let Max get away with studying for the AP tests in February, giving him all of January off to do regular school work! Can you imagine? I guess growing up in Soviet Russia really gives you a laissez-faire attitude on life.
Even Max’s parents, as nuts and overbearing as they are, can’t see why it’s a big deal if I go… Because it isn’t a big deal. At least the rocket scientists get it.
My best guess is that my parents don’t have anyone to boss around anymore. They’ve sent two off to college, and next year they’re in an empty nest. Sure, they love me. I don’t doubt it. But they also love being able to tell me what I can and cannot do. Next year they aren’t around to tell me that they “trust me” but they “don’t trust boys”. Next year they can’t dictate what I do and where I go, and give me a “NO, you may NOT go have fun with your friends” without a valid explanation. Without discussion.
So they’re getting in it now. While they still can. 49 days to control my life. Don’t think I’m not counting.