text: HomeTagsComings & GoingsMight Shawn be Getting a Son on GH? Luke Kerr October 21, 2011 Comings & Goings, General Hospital 19 Comments Could General Hospital's Shawn (Sean Blakemore) have a son? According to ABC Soaps In Depth, GH has made a casting call for a "14-year-old African American male named T.J. An urban and rebellious teen, T.J. is an appealing kid who masks it with a huge chip on his shoulder." The magazine speculates whether-or-not the character could be Shawn's son or if TJ have a different connection to the canvas. As someone extremely interested in seeing things heat up even more between Shawn and Carly (Laura Wright), I'd prefer they didn't have such a distraction, but I guess time will tell. 19 Responses Angie Lucy October 21, 2011 [quote=Luke Kerr]GH has made a casting call for a "14-year-old African American male named T.J. An urban and rebellious teen, T.J. is an appealing kid who masks it with a huge chip on his shoulder." [/quote] Gee, this doesn't have stereotype written all over it, does it? [end snark] Log in to Reply soapbaby October 21, 2011 I really wish I saw what you all at DC see in the Shawn and Carly pairing. I see zero chemistry. In my years of watching LW from Loving/The City to GL to GH, I have never sen her lack this much chemistry in a romantic pairing. Laura Wright looks disinterested in her scenes with Mr. Blakemore. Shawn and Carly, like Steve and Olivia, is a pairing of two very attractive people that has no spark. Well, I hope that adding a family member will round out this very dull character. I am a bit surprised that GH is adding a 14 year-old to the canvas as he'll have no contemporaries besides Molly. I am also surprised that GH is casting a 14 year-old when Lexi Ainsworth was fired for looking too young. Hmm… Log in to Reply alstonboy4315 October 21, 2011 Wow, doesn't EVERY teen have to be an insufferable brat with a huge chip on his or her shoulder to be interesting? **eyeroll*** (insert tired cliche here!) P.S- I have had enough of annoying teens. Between NotJack on OLTL, Michael on GH, Abby on Y&R (who is technically not a teen, but you coulda fooled me!) and the other generic teens on Y&R, I find it difficult to care. Yes, it opens up a new realm of stories for Carly and Shawn, but GH right now is boring as hell. Is this really what is going to bring the ratings up? I love my diversity and giving minority characters a shot, but this just seems like another story that is going to be hyped up and then never really go anywhere. I hope I am wrong and it will lead way to an INTERESTING umbrella story, something GH needs desperately right now. Log in to Reply doctormo77 October 21, 2011 Why can't Shawn get a child that defies stereotypes. I can understand the kid having 'father issues'. Why couldn't Shawn's son could identify more with Spinelli or be a pacifist. I am just tired of seeing the same old nonsense. Log in to Reply tealita October 21, 2011 It has bugged me that Shawn has no back-story. I think it would be much more interesting if he had a wife, with a child in tow come to GH. That said, I'll repeat the mantra about vets being lost to cheap newbies, and state my preference to see both new and old Cassadine/Quatermain friends. Log in to Reply jphelps October 21, 2011 Yawn another boring ass newbie tied to another boring ass newbie. I agree. Shawn and Carly are a big yawn and Ingo was about the only one on GH I saw LW have a lick of romantic chemistry with and she's not engaged in this pairing at all. NO question this show needs a teen scene but isnt it a bit late now since both Michael and soon to be Kristina have been sorased out of their teen years. All thats left is Molly. Log in to Reply Bourgeois Nerd October 21, 2011 Is it just me, or is that just Baz minus a few years? And what do you want to bet him and Molly have a teen romance? Ugh. Can't stand that girl! Log in to Reply vancor October 22, 2011 WTF……….another NEW character! GH is falling fast. Why not bring back characters with ties to existing families in Port Charles….what about Dillion, Lucas. We don't need new people, we need BETTER STORY lines using the current actors-give them more screen time. What happened to GH when Gavin Wolf started it was like a new improved GH with everyone given screen time: ie the Monica, Edward, Alan was back briefly, Alexis, MAC ELQ, ETC…-then all of a sudden we get the same old garbage.–WHAT DID I MISS. –jason and sams wedding crap and honeymoon was a total bore, Sonny being a jerk, Carly screaming. This is the same stuff we have been watching for the last few years-same dialogue over and over again. Hate to say but I don't watch as much as I used too! Found an old CD, do you remember– Think of Laura, Baby come to me, lady of my Heart,the good old days. I want action, intrigue, romance, I want our HISTORY used correctly. bring back laura, bobbie, felicia, lucas, anna-BUT the story lines need to improve. NEW KATE SUCKS, Christina recast that SUCKS! GIVE US BACK OUR GENERAL HOSPITAL NOW! Log in to Reply SwanQueen59 October 22, 2011 When Shawn was first introduced I had the wish that he might be tied to Epiphany in some way. Part of the reason being they never finished the story about her son Stan being murdered as he was doing computer work for Jason (as I recall). I remember she asked both Jason and Spinelli (when BA I believe was new to the cast), for help solving his demise, yet nothing was ever resolved. As for a son, unless they age Molly, who will be available to work with him? And Morgan is in "millitary school". Will they bring him back into the mix as another older teen? There seems to be a "throwing stuff up against the wall and see if it sticks" feeling about a lot of this. Not exactly encouraging… 0:) Log in to Reply EricasEvilTwin October 22, 2011 I swear I feel like my head is spinning…yesterday the sentiment was Elizabeth Webber is a great character and they should bring on someone fresh for her because thats what soaps do, bring on new faces to mix it up with their vets. TODAY its stupid Sean is getting a stupid son, why is the show getting so many newbies. Log in to Reply liason4real October 22, 2011 Shawn gets a son on GH? Why? Molly is twelve. Morgan is in military school. Cam is seven. Aiden is one. Josselyn is two. Emma is three. Michael is almost twenty. JMO…GH blew it in killing off Jake who should be having play dates with Emma, Josselyn, Aiden, Spencer and Cam all while setting up future love interests down the road. Log in to Reply alexrochet October 22, 2011 Soapbaby, where did you see that everyone at DC is loving Shawn and Carly? More than 90% of the comments about them in Perkie's Obs are negative! Personally, I agree with you and I find that they have zero chemistry and aren boring as hell… And I hate how this thug character, this mercenary is presented like this new Jason. I hated the way he was talking to Jax and never minding his own business. And remember that it is a guy who was ready to hurt Brenda FOR MONEY. What does it say about his way of respecting women??? And now that stupid mobster-wannabe newbie is going to get a son? To eat alive the show? You must be kidding me… Enough of those newbies when actresses like NLG and JE are barely on screen! And give a real storyline to Johnny also! Two new docs, a new cop, this new teen? ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH! Why can't they write for the characters we love instead of stupid boring Shawn? Log in to Reply Dinah October 22, 2011 I give a damn about Shawn, just like NuKate, they both suck!! Log in to Reply soapbaby October 22, 2011 Hey alexrochet – I am sorry, I should clarify. I meant the DC bloggers seem to love the Shawn/Carly pairing, as evidenced by the comments on the podcasts. Btw/ I completely agree with your statements. Watching Shawn share scenes with Jason last week was coma-inducing. Log in to Reply GHvetfan October 22, 2011 "I swear I feel like my head is spinning…yesterday the sentiment was Elizabeth Webber is a great character and they should bring on someone fresh for her because thats what soaps do, bring on new faces to mix it up with their vets. TODAY its stupid Sean is getting a stupid son, why is the show getting so many newbies." My first thought in response to this is why does everything come back to hating on Liz? Second thought is that I am not sure it is the same posters on both days. Lastly, why can't they have it both ways? EET – You listed a bunch of reasons why you feel Liz is limited for story potential yesterday or the day before. I am not sure which because I have been working endless hours and cannot sleep. But, others listed reasons why Liz has a lot of potential because she is a vet and a legacy character. Why can't she get a fresh face with ties to the history of the show? How about ties that do not include the mob but would play on her history and the shows. Wouldn't it be awesome if Frisco had a child out there who came to town to meet Maxie but fell for Liz? That is only one idea that does not involve Liz hooking up with the mob or a new character whose only tie to Port Charles is a character that has only been round for half a minute and has no other ties to the canvas. It can be done. Log in to Reply Catharine October 22, 2011 :~ I am not seeing anything with Shawn and Carly. I do not see a spark at all. Friends I can see. Why does Carly have to be with anyone right now . She would be better off with Sonny, than putting her with the wrong person.. Log in to Reply Dew Chanin October 22, 2011 See this is why the writers make the big money because this is so creative, so inventive, that no one else in the last 40 years has thought of it. Wow. I'm in awe. A 14 year old kid with a chip on his shoulder. Genius! NOT. Log in to Reply EricasEvilTwin October 23, 2011 Sorry but Im with alex vet, I will have an interest in newbies AFTER Alexis and Johnny and the Qs have story (and Ill add Ethan doing something more than carrying a painting of laura around). BUt I will agree with you with one thing – much better to bring back a character we love, even with a different actor, or one thats tied to the canvas in some way than to bring on someone random. Im not sure I want a frisco love child unless the real frisco is coming back, but I wouldnt mind the idea of a recast Ned or a recast dillon or scott coming back with laura and serena in tow. If they are shooting for diversity, Id rather see lanie back or tom hardys son. And my point really only was tangentially about liz. If you are a carly fan, then arguably you want sean, jaxs return, carson reunited, a carjo pairing or some other newbie because otherwise where does she go. If you dont like the character of carly then I would think the reaction would be why are "we having newbies, just backburner carly if shes run her course and make (fill in the blank) front burner". Thats the emotional, I want my favorite to have story response, but you cant have it both ways from a rational pov – either you think newbies are important to keeping the core characters fresh OR you think newbies are unnecessary until other beloved characters have story. You cant say newbies suck unless they give my favorite character story. Personally I think newbies are necessary WHEN they give MULITPLE characters storyline and are tied in to history. For example, I wouldnt mind sam finding her dad IF it either turned out to be someone like Jeff Webber or robert because those arent newbies (unless the recast jeff) and because it would give storyline to potentially a slew of long term characters OR if they brought on a name and somehow tied him to johnny – maybe the doctor uncle that escaped the business and now wants to save johnny from anthony and thats how he runs in to alexis and sam. I usually have the biggest issue with characters like the last raft of newbies gh used that only gave story to one or two other characters. Sean ONLY provides story for carly, Siobhan ONLY provided story for lucky, abby ONLY provides story for michael. Again, they could have made siobhan 100 times more interesting if she was a long lost cassadine and was initially sent in to mess with lucky and then fell for him. The nu doc for liz/lulu has the most potential, but given the recent track record Im not holding my breath. Its like I dont want kate to have a long lost son with sonny…boring…I would rather see her son turn out to be spin and hes a love child with trevor lansing – sonny hates spin, spin would turn out to be rics brother (and hopefully they would make ric the guy thats been on the phone with kate) and makes spin related to molly. Id rather see story for him than some random new character. Log in to Reply GHvetfan October 23, 2011 Sam was some random new character who was brought on with no ties to the canvas and was supposed to slot into Brenda's story of angst with Jax and Sonny. Liz was a newbie who had ties to Audrey and was meant to mix it up with the teen set at the time. Patrick was brought in tied to Noah and meant for Robin. Anna was a newbie tied to Robert to cause issues with Holly. Luke was tied to Bobbie. Shawn has no ties and is totally random like Sam. I like the new characters that are not brought in simply because the writer wants to create new characters. I don't see any character that has run its course if the writer is creative. Sue me!!! But, I kind of expect a person who takes up writing as a career to be a little creative. I don't hate Carly except on days where she is reiterating the same dialog that she has been repeating for years. we get it. She and Jason are besties that care about one another. Do we have to hear her say it everyday? We get that Sam makes a great cup of coffee. Could we maybe see her mix it up and have a conversation with her sisters while she learns how to maybe make some fried dough? Liz carries a mean clip board and everybody in Port Chuck is up in her biznass. Could she have a conversation about the weather instead of her kids DNA pool? There are other things these ladies can do. The writers just have limited brain power. Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.


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Dynasil Corporation of America (NASDAQ: DYSL), a leader in the development and manufacture of detection, sensing and analysis technology, today announced that the board of directors has promoted President Steven K. Ruggieri to chief executive officer of the Company and appointed him as a director, effective immediately.
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Ruggieri, 60, becomes the eighth member of the board. He was named president of Dynasil in April 2011, succeeding President and CEO Craig T. Dunham. Ruggieri has more than 32 years of leadership experience in the research, defense, security and technology markets working at Foster Miller and its successor company, Qinetiq Group North America. He led business operations for Qinetiq North America's Technology Solutions Group for parent Qinetiq Group PLC, a $2.5 billion public UK company. The Technology Solutions Group was formed through the 2004 acquisition of Foster-Miller, an R&D and product innovation company. Following the acquisition, under his leadership, revenue grew from $120 million to $400 million in five years.
"During his first six months as President, Steve has demonstrated the skills necessary to lead Dynasil as CEO and to fill a key role on the board," said Peter Sulick, chairman of the board of directors. "The board is encouraged by the steps he has taken to commercialize our technology pipeline, revamp our existing products and further diversify our contract research business. We look forward to working with Steve to grow Dynasil and improve shareholder value."
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While everyone was fawning over Jonathan Taylor Thomas, they seem to have forgotten our favorite 'Home Improvement' star: Taran Noah Smith. We've got the lowdown on what he's been up to since the show ended.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in talks to take the lead in the reboot of 'The Toxic Avenger,' presumably because he has no other hobbies or personal interests.
Bryan Singer is still at it over on Twitter, where he posted a brand new photo from the set of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' featuring a very '70s Wolverine and Beast.
Back in the day, 'Punky Brewster' was a fashion icon and imaginary BFF to little girls everywhere, but where did she go when the show ended?
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Album Rating: 5.0The entire vocals are badass, really well done.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffO shit just listening to the bonus tracks. They are quite good as well. "Nobody" is an alternate, softer version of "Somebody".
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffLove both of those. I might like Nobody better.
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Album Rating: 3.5This is definitely the band's best, imo. The other ones just got annoying quick. Rating might go up in time.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffThe last albums was 3 stars. The one before that was less than 3. This I might rate 4 or more.
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Album Rating: 4.0heard one song vox were kinda ehh but instrumentals!!
Album Rating: 4.0Anybody else hearing the Yes influences in this?
A couple songs in and DAMN.. Just wish the voice was more tolerable, and slightly less epic. I'm sure it will grow on me. Doze instrumentals doh..
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A lamington ... origins more mysterious than the Chiko
THE MEAT PIE is English. The hamburger is American. The origins of the lamington are lost in the mists of time, and the origins of pavlova are tangled in bitter dispute between Australia and New Zealand.
That leaves the Chiko Roll as clear claimant to the title of Australia's Coolest Culinary Creation. Today this column begins a campaign to include the tale of Chiko's birth in the new high school history syllabus that will emerge from Julia Gillard's Education Revolution, and to insert its inventor, Frank McEnroe, in the roll of honour that includes Lance Hill (Hoist), Mervyn Richardson (Victa mower), Cyril Callister (Vegemite), Dare Jennings (Loud shirt), Edward le Roy (Drizabone), Max Schubert (Grange Hermitage), and Lewis Brandt (ute).
Like all great inventions, the Chiko was inspired by an earlier idea (McEnroe was a fan of spring rolls in Chinese cafes). There were hoists before Hills, raincoats before Drizabone, Hawaiian shirts before Loud, reds before Grange. But as with them, the Chiko was a quantum leap past its inspiration, and deserves recognition as a phenomenon in its own right.
Regular readers will recall that this column has tackled the Chiko before. We are revisiting it because its last appearance (in a list of local triumphs that included the pizza with pineapple, the potato scallop, the Pluto pup and the gozleme) apparently caused the producers of MasterChef to set up a challenge that involved the reinvention of Australian culinary icons. This was flattering. What was shocking was that six of the ten contestants had never tasted a Chiko roll before. What was also shocking was the patronising tone with which judges and contestants dissected the golden cylinders in front of them.
The Chiko is not molecular gastronomy. It exists to fill an urgent need. It is our equivalent of the Cornish pastie in southern England, the pork pie in northern England, the hot dog in Chicago, and the cheese steak hoagie in Philadelphia. But while those snacks are predicated on protein, salt and fat, the Chiko contains actual vegetables - cabbage, celery, carrots and beans. That's why it should stir a patriot's heart.
So what's the tale that every Australian teenager should leave school knowing? Francis Gerard McEnroe was a purveyor of fast foods around sporting events in the Victorian countryside. In 1951 he realised the filing of the Chinese spring roll was too monotonous and the wrapping too fragile to have mass appeal to sports fans. So he boosted the size, thickened the dough and diversified the stuffing.
The Chiko might have remained a regional curiosity if not for a fateful meeting. The small factory McEnroe set up in Mt Alexander Road, Melbourne, happened to be near an iceworks run by a family called Floyd. They encouraged Frank to experiment with freezing his product so it could be distributed around the country.
Eventually the two factories amalgamated into Frozen Food Industries, and by the mid 1960s the Chiko had reached every fish and chip shop in the land, ready to be dropped into a vat of boiling oil, then slipped into a long thin paper bag which had previously been squirted with tomato sauce, and then munched triumphantly by three generations of homegoing schookids.
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.- The renowned film-reviewing duo, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, has given Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ" their highest trademark rating: two thumbs way up.
The pair offered an early review of the movie, which will hit theaters Feb. 25, on their syndicated series "Ebert & Roeper."
"This is the most powerful, important and by far the most graphic interpretation of Christ's final hours ever put on film," said Roeper, calling Gibson "a masterful storyteller."
Ebert said it is the only religious movie he has even seen, with the exception of "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", "that really seems to deal with what actually happened."
The movie "focuses relentlessly on the price that Christ paid for redemption and it emphasizes that Jesus wanted this to happen," said Ebert. "His death was the instrument of his purpose, and we should be grateful to him instead of critical of those who were the instruments of his will.
"I don't think the movie is anti-Semitic," said Ebert, addressing the film's controversy that has swept the media. Roeper added that the movie "does not blame all Jews past and present for the death of Jesus."
"Christ was born as a Jew, his disciples were Jewish," said Ebert. "Yes, some Jewish priests call for his death. They were threatened by his assault on their establishment. … Most of the Jews in this movie are horrified by what they see."
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Thursday Odds and Ends
-Let football season begin, thanks to Tide (above).
-Considering that the agency's moving into Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, it's only fitting that the entity now known as Lowe Campbell Ewald has been tapped to handle lead creative duties for the NFL franchise this season.
-Baltimore-based agency Carton Donofrio Partners is shuttering operations after nearly 50 years. One tipster says, "Kudos for [12-year CDP vet] Ellen Moore — a very very smart woman, just not the CEO type — for going out with class." link
-Los Angeles-based prodco Boxer Films has signed Italian directing duo CRIC for their first U.S. commercial representation.
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What Jennifer Lawrence can teach us about sexting among teens
This week, the Washington Post proclaimed that "sexting is the new first base." This assertion was grounded in the results of a research study first published in 2012 (based on data from 2010). Researchers found that over one-fourth (28%) of 948 teens from seven public high schools in southeast Texas had sent a naked picture of themselves to someone else at some point in their lifetime. Other interesting findings included the fact that 31% of those surveyed revealed that they asked someone else for a sext, compared to a majority of respondents (57%) who indicated they had been asked for a sext. So, while it shouldn't be considered a new norm and the majority of individuals simply don't do it, it is happening to some extent. That is our reality.
Yesterday, a friend pointed me to a Vanity Fair cover story which shares a very candid and vulnerable interview with Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence (if you don't know her, I don't know where you have been over the last few years). In it, she discusses how violated, angry, and devastated she felt after hackers stole private pictures of her from her iCloud account, images that she had shared with her significant other over time. And then a specific sentiment she expressed struck me:
"Every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he's going to look at you."
Without a doubt, I feel for Jennifer. I cannot imagine how unbelievably awful it is for something like this to happen. And I am not here to blame her in the least for what happened. I hope that the FBI succeeds in tracking down the culprits, and I hope that time helps bring healing (as she mentions in her interview) and she can put this behind her. Furthermore, those who sext really need to consider the depth of harm and pain she has experienced because of it, and determine if the benefits of their own participation outweigh the risk.
Where am I going with this, and how does all of this come together? I'm glad you asked. To me, Jennifer Lawrence's words in the quote above underscore (in part) why sexting is a "thing." You might say, what does it matter – every adult has a right to take and send naked pictures of themselves. I don't disagree with that. But I spend my professional life trying to help and support a comparatively vulnerable population of adolescents make good decisions involving their technology use. And when nude pictures sent initially between possible or actual romantic partners get spread much more widely involving adolescents, it sometimes leads to disastrous consequences, like cyberbullying, threats, extortion, and suicide. To note, I am focusing in this blog on girls in heterosexual relationships since Jennifer Lawrence is a young woman esteemed by teen girls far and wide. We know that girls solicit sexts too, and we can bracket the other issues of sexting by guys, sexting in non-heterosexual relationships, and laws related to hacking and distributing personal images of others for now, and cover them in future blog posts.
I think most of us would agree that we live in a hypersexualized society. And in our culture, sexting can be construed as a way for adolescents to explore their sexuality without actually participating in the act of sex. Indeed, several teens have told us that they engage in sexting because "it is safer than having sex." They don't have to worry about getting pregnant or contracting a disease. "I can trust my boyfriend," they say. "It's not a big deal, and everyone in a relationship is doing it." A study by Cox Communications in 2009 identified the following major motivations among 655 teens: because someone asked me to (43%), to have fun (43%), to impress someone (21%), to feel good about myself (18%), to try and date someone (8%). Another study involving 378 college freshmen in 2012 found that 17% did so because they felt pressured by a boyfriend. In still another study among 155 undergraduate psychology students also in 2012, 48% of men and 55% of women who had ever been in a committed relationship had engaged in unwanted but consensual sexting.
We know that if youth learn that sexualized behavior and appearance are approved of and rewarded by society and by the people whose opinions matter most to them, they are likely to internalize these standards and consequently engage in "self-sexualization." Specifically related to gender, the American Psychological Association found that as girls participate actively in a consumer culture (e.g., often buying products and clothes designed to make them look physically appealing and sexy) and make choices about how to behave and whom to become (e.g., often styling their identities after the sexy celebrities who populate their cultural landscape), they are, in effect, sexualizing themselves. Keen observers of how social processes operate, girls anticipate that they will accrue social advantages, such as popularity, for buying into the sexualization of girls (i.e., themselves), and they fear social rejection for not doing so.
And this is where I want to bring the conversation back to Jennifer's quote. She asserts that she needed to take and send those pictures to her boyfriend because it was a long-distance relationship, and since they couldn't physically be together, pictures could help to keep his interest and perhaps sexually satisfy him because otherwise he would meet his sexual appetite by looking at porn. This is so crushing for me to hear, mostly because it may very well legitimize any rationalizations a teenage girl might make to engage in sexting just to not be rejected.
Let's compare two hypothetical heterosexual relationship scenarios among teens, for the sake of argument and illustration. In one, a guy doesn't ask his girlfriend for nude pictures because he doesn't want to objectify her. And the girl doesn't (and wouldn't) send her boyfriend nude pictures because she wants him to love her for her mind and for her heart, and not just for her body. Those perspectives seem much more representative of a loving, great, healthy relationship then another one where A) the guy doesn't have the self-control to wait to be with his girlfriend B) the guy decides to arguably cheat on his (exclusive, long-term) girlfriend by temporarily enjoying porn (i.e., other girls) in her stead C) the girlfriend feels compelled to send him pictures to satisfy his curiosity and urges, pictures she probably wouldn't send if she didn't think he "needed" them and/or if she felt fully safe and secure in the relationship and D) the girlfriend is frankly unable to trust him to not let his eyes and desires wander.
As mentioned above, there are a number of reasons why individuals engage in sexting. And I am not judging them at all, as I want to always let people be people, and do as they desire. Please understand that before telling me I am a prude, or extoling the virtues of embracing one's sexuality in this manner, etc. I am simply making a point that regardless of if or why you take and send nude pictures to someone you like or someone you're involved with, don't contribute to your own objectification. Don't allow social or personal obligation or pressure to compel you to do something you otherwise wouldn't. And finally, let's remind the teens we care about to really know their worth, fully own their body, and not fear being rejected (socially or individually) because they didn't defer to the sexual appetite of another.
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Revenge Porn and the Purge trend on Instagram and Twitter
Since last weekend, our site has received a lot of reports from both victims and other concerned social media users about the #purge phenomenon that has gone viral. For those of you unfamiliar, The Purge was a movie that came out in 2013. The storyline featured the premise of all crime being legal for one night of the year. The sequel – The Purge: Anarchy – just came out and has seemingly served as the impetus for some users on Twitter and Instagram (and perhaps other platforms) to (sort of) replicate the storyline. How, you might ask? Well, for a twelve hour period, people are posting and saying whatever they want, and including a hashtag consisting of some variation of "purge" in it (for example, #twitterpurge, #instapurge, #purgenight). Apart from individuals mouthing off in malicious, cruel, and offensive ways (typically against others), the most troubling subset of participants are posting nude pictures of ex-girlfriends and others they wish to humiliate and demean (including those who are underage). This has in the past been termed "revenge porn," as the motivation is often the desire to get back at someone else. You can imagine the emotional state of someone who has been victimized: they are crying out for help as their privacy and trust has been violated in the most extreme way, and don't know how to make the continual harassment and cruelty stop.
Thankfully, many are speaking out and labeling the #purge phenomenon as immature and ignorant, and pointing out that these accounts ruin lives and could push people to suicide. We've also seen anti-purge hashtags surface like #purgenightmuststop or #purgenightnomore, in an attempt to spread the message that this entire idea is horrible, ridiculous, and must end. Finally, I am happy to report that Twitter and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) have been actively taking down offending accounts in these situations once we let them know of them. The only issue has been combating the copycat accounts which have quickly replaced the ones that were deleted. To be sure, these newer accounts are not really getting as many followers and participation as the originals, and so the hope is that we have reached the tipping point of this particular phenomenon – and its end has begun.
We have written about revenge porn in the past, and unfortunately this is just another instantiation which has gained some traction. The hope is that the speed with which it became a "thing" will be matched by the speed with which it is denounced and quelled. A number of states have specific laws that criminalize this behavior in some capacity: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. And more than two dozen are considering legislation. Also, there is a federal proposal being floated in DC called the Relationship Privacy Protection Act, which would make it a misdemeanor to intentionally distribute sexually explicit images or video "with the intent to cause serious emotional distress." This would be punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine – and third parties who knowingly engage in it could face felony charges and a five-year prison sentences with fines of up to $12,500. The concern, though, is that punitive laws will be passed without thoroughly thinking about a number of issues. Eric Goldman brings up a number of valid points as it relates to California's law: How do you measure intent of causing emotional distress when one distributes the images? What if the recipient of the inappropriate image never agreed it should be completely kept in confidence? What about the role of third parties – those who forward or provide external links to the image? What about hackers (instead of current or former romantic partners) who access and distribute images? These complex questions require great consideration before moving forward legislatively.
I know that this is a sensitive and emotionally-laden topic, and affects those who are involved on a visceral level. And as much as I would like to write a scathing diatribe that indicts those who participate in the #purge and other trends that cause pain and embarrassment to others, I know that won't really solve anything. The bottom line is that while there will always be a minority of social media (or other technology) users who marshal its power in negative ways. And while those who try to get back at their exes or at others by posting private shared with them in confidence are completely in the wrong, we have to be honest with ourselves and remember that these situations can avoided if consider all possible long-term implications before putting ourselves out there.
Part of me wants to shout from the rooftops that you can't truly trust anyone anymore, and so please don't ever take and then send risqué pictures or videos – even using "ephemeral messaging" like Snapchat (or the new messaging features due out in iOS 8), even to someone to whom you are married or have been with for a very long time. And you'd think that all of us would have learned from the sexting horror stories we've heard before (including those which have tragically resulted in suicide). But perhaps those lessons don't sink in deep enough, or we just believe that it's just a casual, fun, and exciting way to flirt, or we're so in love and nothing bad will ever happen, or that the other person would never dare to screw us over. Or we just don't imagine something like the #purge could possibly ever spring up, let alone happen to us. All of these rationalizations are natural. And of course, I want to be gracious to everyone, because we've all been in vulnerable positions and we've all made mistakes we regret.
The premise of the Purge movies and now this #purge trend on social media is that you are free to do whatever you want, and that there are no consequences. But that is Hollywood, and not real life. The reality is that there are always consequences (of some kind, even if not immediately obvious), and though we can't often control what someone does with a compromising image of us, we can often control the creation of that image. And by controlling the creation of that image (by never taking it or allowing it to be taken!), we preempt the problem before it can even possibly happen.
Restorative Group Conferencing and Sexting: Repairing Harm in Wright County
Editor's note: This is a guest post written by Nancy Riestenberg, who works for the Minnesota Department of Education. In it, she discusses an innovative approach used to address the harm that results from sexting images that are distributed beyond the originally intended recipient.
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Three years ago, in a middle school in Wright County, Minnesota, students discovered sexually explicit pictures of a student on the cell phone of her boyfriend. The students ran to the bathroom with the cell phone and sent the pictures on to eight other students. By the time the adults in the school discovered them, many student cell phones had received the pictures. The administration asked the school resource officer from the Sheriff's Office to investigate. Potentially many students could be charged with sending or receiving sexually explicit pictures of a minor, a felony offense. What was the County Attorney going to do?
Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily thought cell phones. If the photo is of a child under the age of 18, the photo could be considered child pornography. Possession and dissemination of child pornography is a felony and could carry a sentence of one year or more in jail and a minimum $3000 fine or both. Collateral consequences of a felony on a student's record could include being barred from certain jobs, entering the military and being accepted to college or university.
As a result of this case, the Court Services Department, Sheriff's Office, and the County Attorney Office collaborated with the school district to develop the process currently used to handle sexting cases in Wright County. The process uses community conferencing, diversion and charging based on facts of the cases. The Restorative Justice Agent works with the County Attorney, school resource officer and school administrator to determine the proper approach in each case.
Restorative group conferencing, like victim offender dialogues and circles are a face to face communication processed facilitated by a trained adult, which brings together the persons harmed, the person who did the harm and other affected parties to engage in dialogue about a specific offence or rule violation. The facilitator usually meets with or talks to participants prior to bringing everyone together, 'so they will know what to expect' in the conference. The Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota describes process:
The focus of the encounter nearly always involves naming what happened, identifying its impact, and coming to some common understanding, often including reaching agreement as to how any resultant harm will be repaired. Use of these processes can take place at any point in the justice process, including pre-arrest, pre-court referral, pre-sentencing, or post-sentencing and even during incarceration. (Umbreit, et. al, 2006).
In this incident, the decision was made to divert the case to the Wright County Restorative Justice Agent, who set up a restorative group conference to address and repair the harm. In addition to the students, parents of each student participated in the conference as well as the county attorney, the investigating officer, the school administrators and teachers—almost 40 people total. Some parents were initially angry that their child was participating in the conference since they had not made the pictures, but just sent on what they had received. It was the story of the girl who made the pictures that helped clarify the harm. She thought the pictures were just between her and her boyfriend, but now, she was the one who would live with the consequence of the pictures being forever floating on the Internet.
The conference results in an agreement that is made thorough consensus and all participants sign it. In addition to a three day suspension that was imposed before the conference, the students agreed to apologies, to write a written report on the risks and dangers of sending or receiving child pornography and all agreed to immediately report to the school administration or the SRO any sexually explicit pictures they might receive in the future or believe are circulating. The parents agreed to more closely monitor their child's cell phone and internet use. The school district and county probation agreed to develop a presentation for parents as well as one for all students in the district with age appropriate lessons on sexting, legal and school consequences, and cyber literacy. Everyone signed the agreement. The county attorney agreed to a stay of adjudication or dismissal of charges if the agreement terms were met.
This incident and terms of the conferencing agreement resulted in the development of a county-wide protocol for both prevention education and investigation of sexting incidents.
1. County-wide, age appropriate education. Presentations on sexting, the law and its consequences are presented at the middle and high school levels. Presenters include a county probation office, a school social worker, county social worker and the restorative justice agent. Some schools developed ad campaigns designed by the students to educate their peers and parents. Presentations have also been made to parent groups.
2. Policy regarding cell phones and investigations. School policy regarding cell phones bans them in class; if a phone is found to have sexually explicit pictures on it, the Sherriff's deputy takes the phone, conducts an investigating, and sends the investigation to the Sherriff's office. The pictures are captured as evidence. The Deputy deletes the pictures.
3. Diversion or charges. The sergeant in charge of the juvenile and sexual predator unit recommends diversion or charges to the County Attorney. Diverted cases go to the Restorative Justice Agent for conferencing. A student is considered for diversion if he/she has no prior offenses, is not on probation, and if there are no extenuating circumstances. If a student receives an image and deletes it, the sheriff's deputy will speak with the student and the parents, giving information on how to make cell phones more secure from such images.
Since the first case, there have been over 200 students involved in sexting investigations. All but a few were handled through a diversion process and many of the diversions are conducted as a community conference. Brian Stoll, Wright County Probation Officer presented the following reasons why the process works:
- It gives all those involved a chance to provide input, including school officials;
- It allows the perpetrator/victim to accept responsibility, but also to acknowledge the harm they experienced; and
- It holds individuals accountable without damaging his/her future.
In the three years that the educational and restorative program has been implemented, the seriousness of the cases, the number of youth involved in a case and number of referrals has gone down. "In the early cases," said Eric Leander, Sergeant in charge of the Juvenile and Sexual Predator Unit, "we saw a lot of graphic video and close ups of body parts. Now, there are no videos and much less explicit pictures of the body."
"Many of the cases now are between boyfriend and girlfriend, rather than the 10 to 15 person cases we started with," reported Karen Determan, the Restorative Justice Agent, "and the images have not gone much past the two of them." "Now students tell teachers or the SRO's or administrators that they have seen or heard about sexting, so we get to stop the images before they get too far," said Jeff Scherber, a middle school principal. "Students report even if they just heard about an image or if it has not happened in school. And the parents have been great supporters of our work. It used to be that parents would say, 'my kid, my phone.' We don't hear that any more. They support our policy."
The goals of the process include educating both the juveniles and the parents, attempting to repair the harm done, help all participants to understand the collateral consequences of sexting, and to deter further incidents. Most importantly, the process helps to keep juveniles out of the criminal justice system.
Umbreit, M.S., Vos, B, and Coates, R.B. Restorative Justice Dialogue: Evidence-based Practice. Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking, University of Minnesota, 2006.
Wright County Court Services, www.co.wright.mn.us. Michael J. MacMillan, Director firstname.lastname@example.com; Brian Stoll, Probation Officer, email@example.com.
State Sexting Laws
By Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin
This regularly updated fact sheet provides a brief overview and link to each of the state sexting laws. If you are aware of updates to the sexting laws in your state that are not included, please let us know.
Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. (2014). State Sexting Laws. Cyberbullying Research Center. Retrieved [insert date], from http://www.cyberbullying.us/state_sexting_laws.pdf
Law Enforcement Views of Cyberbullying and Sexting
Earlier this summer, Sameer and I (along with our good friend Joe Schafer), published an article in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin that describes the perceptions and experiences of law enforcement when it comes to responding to cyberbullying and sexting. This article stemmed from my work a few years ago as a Futurist in Residence with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. For the study, we surveyed 979 police officers (336 school resource officers [SROs] and 643 traditional law enforcement officers who were not assigned to schools). We wanted to know what they thought about these high-tech teen problems and to see if there were any differences in perceived roles when comparing SROs with traditional police officers.
Perceptions and Experiences
The vast majority of the SROs (94%) agreed or strongly agreed that cyberbullying is a serious problem warranting the response of law enforcement. Similarly, 93% agreed or strongly agreed that sexting is a serious concern for law enforcement. As far as experience, 78% of the SROs reported that they had investigated an average of 16 cyberbullying cases during the previous school year and 67% of the SROs reported that they had personally investigated a sexting incident in the previous year (average=5 incidents).
Like the SROs, the majority of the traditional police officers (82%) agreed or strongly agreed that cyberbullying as a serious problem warranting the response of law enforcement. Seventy-eight percent agreed or strongly agreed that sexting is a serious concern for law enforcement. Relatively few of the traditional officers had experience investigating cyberbullying and sexting cases. Ten percent reported investigating an average of 2 cyberbullying cases during the previous school year and 7% reported that they had personally investigated a sexting incident in the previous year (average=3 cases).
The Law Enforcement Role
As a part of this study, we asked officers to rate (on a scale of 0-10, with 10 equaling a "very important/significant role") the extent to which law enforcement should play a role in ten different cyberbullying scenarios. The scenarios ranged from relatively minor (e.g., "A teacher confiscates a cell phone from a student in class and wants to determine if it contains any information that is in violation of school policy.") to much more serious (e.g., "A male student receives an email from an unknown person threatening to kill him at school tomorrow."). In all cases the SROs rated the law enforcement role significantly higher than the traditional law enforcement officers. Clearly, the officers who work in the schools, who most directly confront these problems, see themselves has having a greater responsibility in dealing with the cases than the officers who do not regularly work in schools.
Experience with cyberbullying and sexting cases was also big predictor of officer perceptions about their role. Specifically, officers who had experience with investigating a cyberbullying or sexting case were over 2.5 times as likely to view cyberbullying and sexting as a significant concern for law enforcement, compared to those who had no such experience. For both cyberbullying and sexting, female officers were significantly more likely to report that they strongly agreed that there was an important role in getting involved in the behaviors. Moreover, officers who had children under the age of 18 living at home were significantly more likely to agree that cyberbullying was something law enforcement needed to be involved in dealing with.
Appropriate Law Enforcement Response
Law enforcement officers, especially those who are assigned to a school, will undoubtedly need to become involved in cyberbullying and/or sexting incidents at some point during their careers. They will be most frequently called upon to act after incidents occur within the student body. While most instances of cyberbullying do not warrant the formal intervention and response of law enforcement, some cases do. Even if the cyberbullying behavior doesn't immediately appear to rise to the level of a crime, officers should use their discretion to handle the situation in a way that is appropriate for the circumstances. For example, a simple discussion of the legal issues involved in cyberbullying may be enough to deter some first-time bullies from future misbehavior. Officers might also talk to parents about their child's conduct and express to them the seriousness of online harassment. The law enforcement response typically varies based on how the case is discovered, how much harm has occurred, how evidence is collected, who all is involved, and how well-trained the officer may be. All officers, but especially those assigned to a school setting, should educate themselves about the online behaviors of adolescents. They should also seek to respond to misbehaviors in a reasonable and appropriate manner, with the goal of preventing subsequent problem behaviors without imposing unnecessarily harsh disciplines.


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