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Guest blog: Petronella Wyatt is wrong about teenage 'temptresses' - tell us what you think

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KateMumsnet · 13/03/2013 13:05

Our guest blog today is by Mumsnet Blogger Glosswitch, who writes in response to an article by Petronella Wyatt in yesterday's Daily Mail.

Wyatt says that, as a teenage girl, she was regularly propositioned by her father's male friends. But she pours scorn on the idea that their behaviour was in any way abusive - claiming, in fact, that it's 'predatory and precocious' girls who deserve our censure.

Read Glosswitch's post, and tell us what you think. If you blog on this subject, don't forget to post your URL on the thread.

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flurp · 14/03/2013 12:42

Imagine if Jimmy Saville's name had been mentioned in that article!

These dirty old men are no better than JS.
Makes one wonder how many other young girls these men groped - but its OK is it because they are 'upper class' pervs?
PW's parents sound grossly negligent, if one of my Dad's friends had behaved that way he would have gone ballistic!!!

JakeBullet · 14/03/2013 12:52

Well said flurp.

Yes wonder indeed if he had been among the list of lecherous old men who abused her that she would see things in the same light. Or if the Daily Mail would.

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 14/03/2013 18:01

Agree fillyjonk and flurp.

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