‘Pregnancy Pact’ Teens Mocked
BEVERLY (WBZ) ― A group of pregnant girls at Gloucester High School were mocked in a series of controversial parade floats in Beverly and Salem over the holiday weekend.
The group of 17 girls in Gloucester made international headlines last month after Time magazine posted a story that claimed some of them had made “a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.”
That story spurred several young people upscale Beverly Farms to create some R-rated floats for the town’s annual “Horribles 4th of July Parade,” an event that is typically politically incorrect.
Mixed in the parade with marching bands and children were a float that featured men in diapers crawling out from in between a woman’s legs propped in birthing stirrups and a flatbed trailer full of young women pretending to be pregnant bumping and grinding at a baby shower.
Some in the parade also threw condoms into the crowd.
There were several other sights that many felt were crude, offensive and indecent. A video of the parade was posted on YouTube over the weekend.
According to the Boston Herald, three of the judges walked off and quit.
The parade is called ‘The Horribles‘ so I’m not sure why there’s such an uproar. I think it’s actually quite funny the way it was presented. Sure, it’s over-the-top and offensive but that’s the point of this particular parade. What is happening among teens in Gloucester is shocking. It should be dealt with. Mocking it, in it’s own bizarre way, is a form of dealing with it. Getting it all out there in the open is very important. Besides, if you can’t laugh at yourself and your town, you have a whole separate set of issues. Living in Palm Beach County, home of the election debacle in 2000, I think we can relate. Am I the only one that finds the humor in this bizarre story?
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No, you’re not the only one. And I agree that the girls in the pact should be openly mocked and ridiculed. I don’t want to offend anyone, but maybe that is part of the problem with teenage girls becoming pregnant; it is no longer the stigma it used to be. Hell, now its seen as COOL because Jamie Lynn did it!
Now I’m not advocating that society go back to the time of shipping girls off to convents to have their children or back alley abortions, but maybe the kids would pay a bit more attention to NOT getting pregnant (birth control or abstinence) if the media (and society in general) would show a little disapproval of the whole thing.