Do tween girls typically make 'body part' jokes?

[Anonymous]

For lack of a better way to phrase it...for example giggling when they see something that they think looks like a penis? Expected it from my DS, but didn't realize my DD would be the same.

[Anonymous]

Ohhh yeah. I remember doing this as a tween and now I work 2 weeks at a summer camp and see it in groups. Last year we had to have a sit down with a group of girls who found a phallic looking stick and were touching other campers with it while laughing hysterically and saying that a penis had just touched them. We've also had to do reminders not to make boobs out of the sand.

Then there was the year one poor boy wound up accidentally flashing a group of campers. The boys, after initially laughing, never brought it up again. The girls were fucking vicious. They were 13 .

Granted I've seen bad behavior from the boys too, so I think it's an age thing .

[Anonymous]

Of course they do. Does no one else remember the "PEN 15" club from middle school?

[Anonymous]

Oh hell to the yes they do!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course they do. Does no one else remember the "PEN 15" club from middle school?

I was a charter member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course they do. Does no one else remember the "PEN 15" club from middle school?

I was a charter member.

Huh? I went to one of the top private schools in the country and still had the dumb Pen15 thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh yeah. I remember doing this as a tween and now I work 2 weeks at a summer camp and see it in groups. Last year we had to have a sit down with a group of girls who found a phallic looking stick and were touching other campers with it while laughing hysterically and saying that a penis had just touched them. We've also had to do reminders not to make boobs out of the sand.

Then there was the year one poor boy wound up accidentally flashing a group of campers. The boys, after initially laughing, never brought it up again. The girls were fucking vicious. They were 13 .

Granted I've seen bad behavior from the boys too, so I think it's an age thing .

What a double standard;
Girls being fucking vicious=fun and games
Buys even mentioning an embarrassing girl fail=sexual harassment

[Anonymous]

Yea. The wiener game

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh yeah. I remember doing this as a tween and now I work 2 weeks at a summer camp and see it in groups. Last year we had to have a sit down with a group of girls who found a phallic looking stick and were touching other campers with it while laughing hysterically and saying that a penis had just touched them. We've also had to do reminders not to make boobs out of the sand.

Then there was the year one poor boy wound up accidentally flashing a group of campers. The boys, after initially laughing, never brought it up again. The girls were fucking vicious. They were 13 .

Granted I've seen bad behavior from the boys too, so I think it's an age thing .

What a double standard;
Girls being fucking vicious=fun and games
Buys even mentioning an embarrassing girl fail=sexual harassment

Pp here. Working with that age group has been an eye opener. Dont get me wrong, there is plenty of bad behavior from boys (75% directed at other boys) and the consent and respect talk is something that needs to be taught to boys but I'm always left in awe how it seems so one sided.
One of the saddest was when this group of girls mocked an overweight boy and told him he needed to wear a bikini top since he had boobs. He refused to go swimming and wouldn't tell us why until a counselor heard the girls teasing him. One of the boys friends said something along the lines of "ignore them. Half of them don't even need to wear a bathing suit top because they have no boobs". Those girls went crying that the boy teased them. Thankfully a counselor had overheard the whole thing and while the boy did get a taking to about "don't talk about other people's bodies", the girls got in a lot of trouble too. But you could see the spirit of the overweight boy just completely crushed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh yeah. I remember doing this as a tween and now I work 2 weeks at a summer camp and see it in groups. Last year we had to have a sit down with a group of girls who found a phallic looking stick and were touching other campers with it while laughing hysterically and saying that a penis had just touched them. We've also had to do reminders not to make boobs out of the sand.

Then there was the year one poor boy wound up accidentally flashing a group of campers. The boys, after initially laughing, never brought it up again. The girls were fucking vicious. They were 13 .

Granted I've seen bad behavior from the boys too, so I think it's an age thing .

What a double standard;
Girls being fucking vicious=fun and games
Buys even mentioning an embarrassing girl fail=sexual harassment

[Anonymous]

This double standard pisses me off (and I am a woman!) girls making fun of boys- man up! Girls not paying for dates- its chivalrous thing to do or thats the social norm. My ass it is! Fuc*^^*+ double standards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh yeah. I remember doing this as a tween and now I work 2 weeks at a summer camp and see it in groups. Last year we had to have a sit down with a group of girls who found a phallic looking stick and were touching other campers with it while laughing hysterically and saying that a penis had just touched them. We've also had to do reminders not to make boobs out of the sand.

Then there was the year one poor boy wound up accidentally flashing a group of campers. The boys, after initially laughing, never brought it up again. The girls were fucking vicious. They were 13 .

Granted I've seen bad behavior from the boys too, so I think it's an age thing .

What a double standard;
Girls being fucking vicious=fun and games
Buys even mentioning an embarrassing girl fail=sexual harassment

Pp here. Working with that age group has been an eye opener. Dont get me wrong, there is plenty of bad behavior from boys (75% directed at other boys) and the consent and respect talk is something that needs to be taught to boys but I'm always left in awe how it seems so one sided.
One of the saddest was when this group of girls mocked an overweight boy and told him he needed to wear a bikini top since he had boobs. He refused to go swimming and wouldn't tell us why until a counselor heard the girls teasing him. One of the boys friends said something along the lines of "ignore them. Half of them don't even need to wear a bathing suit top because they have no boobs". Those girls went crying that the boy teased them. Thankfully a counselor had overheard the whole thing and while the boy did get a taking to about "don't talk about other people's bodies", the girls got in a lot of trouble too. But you could see the spirit of the overweight boy just completely crushed

The double standard is horrible.

A group of boys in that situation would have been sent home for sexual harrassment.

[Anonymous]

The double standard is that this behavior from boys is expected and a normal rite of passage. "Boys will be boys". Yet when girls do it it's pathologized. Hence, the original post