Bad Girls Giving Us a Bad Rap?






  1. There are more social controls placed on young girls than young men and this is just another example of that. It's sexism, plain and simple. Boys are condoned for their independent leanings in young adolescence and girls are condemned for the very same actions.

    You're right though, both girls and boys are capable of getting into trouble, so they should probably track boys too. However, I don't think this is the answer either. Surely parents were able to ensure their children didn't get into trouble before GPS was invented?!

  2. This study sounds ridiculous. Firstly, teenagers are smart enough to realize they're being tracked and will avoid any measures taken to censor them, so if any parents get any "ideas" about using this on their children, they are too naive. Plus, doesn't bad behaviour such as sex happen everywhere?? It's not as if your teen daughter is having sex in a strip club, or on skid row - I think at that age it happens anywhere from inside the parent's house (or bed!!) to the parking lot at 711 so unless someone is going to not let their daughter out anywhere, she's going to do it. Sorry parents. I think a better idea would be to actually try parenting and condoms always make nice gifts :p

  3. Michelle - Yeah, there's no substitute for good old-fashioned parenting!

    Jordana - Some of the Globe and Mail commenters picked up on that, making jokes about how if they were these girls, they'd pay someone to hold their phone for them in a church. I think part of the purpose of this study was to come up with proof for why GPS-enabled cell phones would be a valuable and marketable cell phone company service. Part of the article talked about cell phone companies trying to sell parents on the idea of "geo-fencing."


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