Touring the U.S. Male

[KnottedYet]

I'd be impressed if *anyone* could get a group of teenaged boys to cooperate in *anything*. Stubborn little cusses...

Of course, if I found out my child had allowed himself to be in a video I'd tan his hide. We've drilled into his head since he was a toddler that you don't let strangers take your picture.

[mimitabby]

Oh, Knot, you mean the way Raleighdon ALLOWED himself to be in a video!?? he didn't even know it was happening, nor did he know it was going to be published on youtube until someone else told him that it existed. And then his terrible wife shared it with the world. Poor Raleighdon didn't know whether to laugh or hide, but in the end, it amused him because despite the content of that youtube, people gave him positive feedback.
It's getting to be that everyone and everyone's pet is on Youtube, whether they know it, like it, or not.

[KnottedYet]

Ralieghdon is an adult. He can defend himself. And he was clowning around for friends.

Consider the video from the point of view of the mother of a young teenage boy. Here's a video with 4 very identifiable teenage boys just hanging out together who don't know they are being watched, and it makes little giggles about their sexual orientation in text about their "girly handshakes" and the way they don't react when a pretty girl (also teenaged) walks by.

If my son gave his permission to be in that video, I'd tan his hide. If someone shot that video and made those comments without his permission, I'd be furious at the videographer. Not only because making gay cracks is just crude and unacceptable humor, but because doing it about juveniles is just WRONG. And if other boys saw that video, they could harass the subjects unmercifully.

[mimitabby]

ah, I missed the video, had no idea of the context, sorry. I agree, that could be very unfair.... i was just saying, Raleighdon didn't give permission and I imagine that is true of many of the videos that are spreading all over right now, so your son might be in a video with his knowledge or permission.

[SadieKate]

I didn't see the video but I've seen lots of references to this article, considering Kantor to be credible.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columni...era-laws_x.htm

[mimitabby]

Because something is legal doesn't make it right.
When my father's stepson bought my father's house for 1 dollar it was completely legal, as was the way he squandered my father's trust fund in less than two years (which was designed to last for the rest of my father's life) while my father had Alzheimers because he was after all the Executor, but it didn't make it right.

[SadieKate]

Hmm, and here my interpretation of that article is that beyond the letter of criminal law there are still risks and the need for commonsense.