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In other news, am I right to think it is laughable to say: "From [this Pakistani guy] to [that Indian guy], the team deliberately sought to include non-Western views."?

Edit: I mean because of the "from this to that" construction -- from India to Pakistan doesn't feel like much of a range....

Forget the pregnancy - follow those girls around when they're 22 and struggle every single day to finish school/work/pay bills/care for a child/have a life/get some actual sleep. Instead of all the BS they actually show.

...have you seen any episodes of 16 And Pregnant? I've seen one or two, and I gotta say, the ones I did see weren't glorifying at all. They were pretty freakin' crappy--and that was just while the chick was preggo, and not really once she had the baby and had to deal with THAT.

Though admittedly, the US Weekly or People or whatever spread on "Where are they NOW?" made them sound all happy and shit, which I doubt they are (one of them was all "Well, we broke up a couple months before the birth because he was hitting me, but then he died in a motorcycle accident two months after she was born, so that sucks because she'll never get to meet her daddy and I'm still living with my parents, but GOSH, SHE"S SO CUTE AND I LOVE HER (CUE ADORABLE PICTURES!!"))

...have you seen any episodes of 16 And Pregnant? I've seen one or two, and I gotta say, the ones I did see weren't glorifying at all. They were pretty freakin' crappy--and that was just while the chick was preggo, and not really once she had the baby and had to deal with THAT.

I watched most of the first season and I agree, it was pretty crappy for most of those girls, but I think MTV lost an opportunity to really talk about birth control and why it wasn't used or if it was, why it failed. If the show's purpose is to put the reality of teen pregnancy out there, then put the reality of birth control out there, too. And also follow girls who opt for abortion. Show how harrowing and emotional that can be.

I didn't have to watch the show. I've had more cousins get pregnant before age sixteen than I care to count. One of them was 15--I remember her complaining when she was about 7 months along that she couldn't wait to have the baby so she could go roller skating again.

I truly think the teenage mind just can't possibly grok the enormity of what's going on.

There's a difference between boycotting the occupied territories and boycotting Israel.

However, the consumer parts of Isreal's society has become closely entwined with the occupied territories. Including major water source.

"Well, we broke up a couple months before the birth because he was hitting me, but then he died in a motorcycle accident two months after she was born, so that sucks because she'll never get to meet her daddy and I'm still living with my parents, but GOSH, SHE"S SO CUTE AND I LOVE HER (CUE ADORABLE PICTURES!!"))

OMG, I saw that in the nail place, and had no idea who these people were, or why I needed to be updated on their lives.

I truly think the teenage mind just can't possibly grok the enormity of what's going on.

I think this is true of teens in general. (There was a recent Feministe thread where a commenter got indignant at the number of "Oh man, I remember being that age" comments and loudly declared that, as a 19 year-old, she was offended by the ageism on display and anyway, people don't mature very much after the age of 26, SO THERE. Nobody was able to rebut her because everyone in-thread over the age of 30 had died laughing.)