the daria writers really did that
Call me by your name
THAT’S THE POINT THOUGH.
They’re children. They’re literally students sitting in class. They’re 14, maybe 15 years old (I can’t remember which season specifically this is from).
That’s what grooming is. An adult, who is fully aware of what they’re doing, taking advantage of a teenager or a child and manipulating them or brainwashing them because they’re too young to actually understand what’s happening.
Tiffany thinks he’s talking about gardening. And even when Quinn is relating and thinking back on the story, she still doesn’t really understand what was going on. It wasn’t until her older sister and mom could process the scene through their adult brains that consequences were had.
It shouldn’t be the responsibility of children to recognize when they’re being groomed/gaslit/manipulated/etc.
^^^^^
This is exactly why young girls can never be “fast.” It’s not possible. They were either taken advantage of or groomed.
Been there, my English teacher would be way too “friendly” with some of my classmates, taking their hands, putting them nicknames and he used to always use one of them for every exercise or example in class, but I was too young to see what was wrong, I was taught to see teachers as adults you could always trust, but then my classmate left school and later I learned it was because that teacher was crossing the line with her because she was his ex’s daughter and she looked a lot like her mom when she was young.
I was shocked, I couldn’t believe something like that was happening right in front of us but I was only a girl and so was her, he was a gross man and I’m so mad he didn’t lose his job because he had contacts in the school.
Protect girls, protect teenagers.
