Disturbed and Disturbing British People

Disturbed and Disturbing British People

I doubt any of us are 100% sane in our insane world but some of us are clearly nuttier than most. Two examples, not coincidentally from crazy ol’ England: a teen girl who pretended to be a teen boy and a child who can’t possibly know what “it” is.

They say teenage girls are often erratic, flighty, and ditzy. Of course, “they” say a lot of things and, when the “they” refers to adolescent boys, their motivations are often suspect.

What is less disputable is that many teens in the rapidly-crumbling Western World are acting sexier and acting out their new-found sexuality nowadays like they never have before.

Role models such as Miley Cyrus and the Spears sisters, television shows like “Glee,” increasingly lax dress codes and encouragement in schools partly explain the growing phenomenon as does Tyra Banks featuring teens proudly admitting they have kissed other girls.

There are also tons of anecdotal evidence that shows teens have been experimenting with lesbianism in showers and sleep-overs, frequently at the instigation of their male peers.

Across the pond, a teen–barely a teen at 19–has taken advantage of loosened moral codes and taken lesbian seduction to a whole new level by posing as multiple boys in order to date and grope younger girls.

Apparently, the enterprising Gemma Barker was very successful in her stratagem.

According to London’s Daily Mail, ”In an extraordinary deception, she created false alter egos so she could have sexual encounters with her 15 and 16-year-old victims,” wore baggy boy clothes, talked and acted like a boy, set up three different male Facebook profiles, and even convinced a victim’s family that she was a he.

The Mail didn’t report how, when, and where Barker was able to kiss, cuddle, and grope the girls who attended the same school she had attended without being discovered. Police made the gender discovery after a parent woke up and turned her in.

She was arrested, searched, and admitted her guilt on two charges of sexual assault and one of fraud.

Aside from obvious parental negligence in the case of Gemma Barker–that how, when, and where issue–there is the question of what Brit parents are thinking these days if they condone young boys’ intimacies with their daughters. The Barker affair is hardly the first.

Among others, three years ago, England was rocked by the smarmy tale of 12 year old Alfie Patten impregnating 15 year old Chantelle Steadman. Chantelle’s mum was fully aware they were sleeping together–in her home. As things turned out, a slew of other boys were sharing Chantelle and Alfie wasn’t the father. See “Alfie Updated,” http://bit.ly/AnDvMo.

As of now, it seems Barker’s solicitors will go for a semi-insanity defense, claiming the defendant is autistic and “a very lonely character.” The judge thinks she’s “manipulative and mean.” Whatever she is, she is facing two years in prison.

Even more bizarre is the matter of “Sasha,” who Moonbattery.com aptly surmises “will eventually put a psychiatrist’s kids through college.” (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12190.)