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Later this month, a North Carolina high school student will appear in a state court and face five child pornography-related charges for engaging in consensual sexting with his girlfriend.
What's strange is that of the five charges he faces, four of them are for taking and possessing nude photos of himself on his own phone—the final charge is for possessing one nude photo his girlfriend took for him. There is no evidence of coercion or further distribution of the images anywhere beyond the two teenagers' phones.
Similarly, the young woman was originally charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor—but was listed on her warrant for arrest as both perpetrator and victim. The case illustrates a bizarre legal quandry that has resulted in state law being far behind technology and unable to distinguish between predatory child pornography and innocent (if ill-advised) behavior of teenagers.
The boy is being charged with child pornography for taking pictures of himself.
[These teens were of the age of consent in North Carolina and could legally have had sex with each other. Juvenile court jurisdiction ends at age 16 in North Carolina, however, so they are being tried as adults on felony charges of possessing child porn... of themselves. -Ed.]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 06 2015, @07:03PM
The word "normal" would be more than sufficient. "Plain" might work. Or, no descriptive terms at all. "Man" and "woman", "male" and "female", "boy" and "girl" have worked for eons. The normative group doesn't need a descriptor, unless maybe "control". Geez, Louise.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by SiriusStarr on Wednesday September 09 2015, @06:02PM
"Normal" is by definition normative, or at least strongly carries the connotation in the English language. It would be considered pretty damn rude to talk about normal people and black people, seeing as how it implies that black individuals are somehow inferior or abnormal, and the same is true of saying "gay people and normal people" or "trans people and normal people." To your later point, man/woman, male/female, and boy/girl do not distinguish cis and trans individuals, thus the necessity of cis (or natal) as a descriptive terms in instances where one does wish to distinguish them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 10 2015, @12:06AM
Rude or not - trans is not normative, "cis" is normative.
Rude? WTF? Why does anyone CARE that the non-normative think that the norms are rude? Why are we wasting people's time and energy catering to that tiny percentage of people who are out in left field?
They simply cannot demand that their way of life changes the lives of all about them.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.