 Topic: Wired for Sex: A Teen’s World - Oct 5 09
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Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: It’s a Teen’s World
Oct 5, 2009 (Mon), 10 pm on CBC Newsworld
Kids today are active players in a sexually-charged popular culture, fuelled by media and personal technology. But at what cost? Whether it's posting sexy photos and raunchy video on the net, ass-grabbing in the school hallway or spreading explicit gossip that shatters high school lives, harassment is commonplace, even acceptable.
Kids today seem to be simply absorbing the bombardment of sexually explicit language, images and behaviours into their social scripts. Even those who recognize the consequences feel powerless to stop it.
Combining documentary verite and self-directed dramatic films, three diverse groups of Toronto teens have an unprecedented opportunity to examine their provocative, fast-paced and hyper-sexualized social world more carefully and thoughtfully. Perhaps most revealing is how the kids in each group challenge each other's assumptions, grapple with contradictions and ultimately change their perspectives.
In an unprecedented journey through computer screens, inside all-ages clubs, with candid personal diaries and in their own short dramatic films about sexual pressures, It's a Teen's World exposes what it's like for today's teens to navigate a tangled web of sex, lies and power trips.
In Canada, by high school graduation 85% of teenagers are involved with sexual harassment.
Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips: It’s a Teen’s World covers the grey zone of sexual harassment. What may seem all fun and games to a teenage boy can be a hurtful case of harassment for a teenage girl. But with all of the mixed signals teenagers get from online videos, they seem to have gotten their wires crossed. Girls and boys are not on the same page when it comes to harassment, and Glazier’s film opens up a discussion among Canada’s youth.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/t eensworld/
http://www.itsateensworld.com
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