How brave and smart is this girl?

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Astoundingly. I wish I had had the nerve to do something like that in my teens.

So what was the point of her experiment?

I'm pretty impressed.

The point was to record how people's approach towards her changed when they thought she was pregnant. It must have been fascinating, and probably sometimes pretty upsetting.

Of course people's attitude would change. It is a pretty silly thing for a teenager (both the boy and the girl) to do whilst they were still in school.

Not sure what that proves beyond the bleeding obvious and misleading people in the process. It does not make me sympathetic to teenager parents one jolt.

It's not supposed to make you feel sympathetic to anyone. It's an experiment. I would imagine that most girls who get pregnant while still at school are too busy coping with everything to carefully note the way that everyone around them reacts, write it all down, try to be objective about it (more possible than if you are actually pregnant). I think it's very interesting and would quite like to see what she found. It may be that people's reactions to her were not as bad as you might expect, she may have experienced out and out discrimination in unexpected ways, who knows. It's interesting, to me.

It would h ave been more useful to work with a few of the pregnant hispanic students at her school. Wider range of experiences, no deception.

I don't get the bravery or smartness. It's still lying and deceit.

It's trolling in RL. She probably had the full range of reactions. As you would expect.

I bet alot of the students afterward probably thought 'ok........'

and along cae next weeksa gossip,
I don't doubt she had good intentions with awareness etc, but rumour gossip is so disposable in HS not really worth it.

I think the harm lying to her family and friends about this out weighs the bravery and dedication.

I would be gutted if I were her sibling. I would be fucking furious with my son if I were the boyfriends mother. I would have probably been stressing about money, and been considering giving up my job or working less hours to care for the baby.

I agree it would have been far more informative to talk to real pregnant teenage mums.

real teenage girls are having real pregnancies all the time....does that also constitute a brave social experiment?

i had my first child at 19. i was happily married, but it did not stop men in the street shouting out "dont worry love, ill marry ya"...

i dont 'get' this 'experiment'.

I once worked witha 19 year old that lied to us all about being pregnant. She had told her boyfriend she was pregnant to keep him and continued lying to everybody else too.
She eventually did have to tell the truth. It was a very big drama and we all felt betrayed deceived. I felt it had damaged our working relationship and obviously she felt the same as she left shortly afterwards.
I can't even begin to imagine what it would have felt like if she had been my son's girlfriend or my sister and that it had all been an experiment.
I think all this will come back and bite the girl in the news story some day.

Bloody bonkers!

Maybe should could spend a year in a wheelchair next time to find out how people react, and how difficult life can be.

Sounds like a massive attention-seeker

You call it social experimentation. I call it a gimmicky stunt.

Why is it brave and smart?

Tasteless and pathetic.

the title of the piece is

Pregnot: Toppenish High student fakes pregnancy as social test about stereotypes, rumors
BY ADRIANA JANOVICH

i see nothing about it being purely about hispanic girls.

i did that particular social experiment for real. i dont get it. am i an "incredibly brave girl"?

i have read and re read. it was about stereo types and rumours. not about hispanic girls and the prejudices they face
what about the prejudices i faced? in the delivery room the MW asked whose name was going on the babys records! i was sodding married! i got abuse shouted in the street. this was a mere 19 years ago. i cannot see how pretending to be pregnant constitutes bravery by feminism?

if i had simply documented my experience (which was real as opposed to fabricated) what would that have made me? a brave feminist battling through the social restrictions that society would have placed upon me as "teen mum"
cos thats what i did do...i didnt live up to that particular stereotype.

i think this is ridiculous because real women are doing exactly what this woman was pretending to do, and they have to keep doing it - they dont take the bump off and go "tada! fooled you"!

i dont get it as an experiment - feminist or any other type.

Urgh, indeed, dittany.

Now what would be brave would be an Hispanic teenager graduating while pg, and standing up and telling everyone what people said about her.

Or any teenager, for that matter.

I would have been incredibly upset if my sister had led me to believe that she was pregnant (whilst still at school) only to learn it was a lie social experiment.