The recent occurences of what people are calling sexting between high school students and the prosecution of these students has been covered extensively by both feminist bloggers and men’s rights bloggers. On the feminist side, feministing.com and Pandagon have spent many posts covering these stories, while glenn sacks website and mensactivism.org have covered it from the side of the men’s movement.
Both sides cry foul. The feminists cry foul that the the girls who send the texts are getting arrested for child porn criminal charges and being harassed for being ’skanky.’ The men’s sites take on the issue more from the side of the boys who are gettign charged as sex offenders and similar child porn criminal charges. The men’s site also mention the problems the girls face, while the feminist sites glaringly leave the men out and make it sound like only female high school students are being unfairly persecuted and prosecuted as a result of these sexting cases.
This seems like an issue where the feminists and the men’s rights movements have common ground. The men’s rights blogs and websites complain about the unfair treatment of both high school boys and girls, so it seems like they are aligned with the feminists on this issue. Is this something that both sides can come together and find common ground on, or will the feminists continue the practice of ignoring the plight the boys face in these cases in favor of more face time for the girls?
