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Wow, I really want to ad hom here because you obviously didn't read the article or listen to the original (and excellent) WNYC Radio Rookie piece, but I'll resi
by tankbot 14y ago
Wow, I really want to ad hom here because you obviously didn't read the article or listen to the original (and excellent) WNYC Radio Rookie piece, but I'll resist.
This isn't about a girl or a case. It's about many girls (and boys) and how public "slut shaming" in the modern age affects their lives. Yes, Hester was forced to wear a scarlet "A" as her public shaming. But in today's world the scarlet letter is a digital record that follows you, potentially for the rest of your life because of a bad choice as a teenager.
Can you now understand Temitayo Fagbenle's allusion?
- pdonis 14y agoOk, s/girl/girls/ and s/case/cases/ in my post. How does that change the point? AFAIK, all of the girls involved did not cheat on anyone. Hester Prynne did. My point is that the "scarlet letter" analogy is unfair to the girls, because it implies that they have done something worse than just make a bad choice of who to trust.