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There's a parent who thinks that by removing the "temptation" of pop music, he can remove the temptation of sex itself. He's confusing a song for a seduction. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
There's a guy who thinks that by controlling his daughter's music, he can control her mind. He's discovering that the mind of a teenage girl is a fortress, not a vacant lot. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
We're seeing a classic moral panic where an artist is blamed for societal changes that make adults uncomfortable. The same script played out with Elvis, Madonna, and now Taylor Swift. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
The dad's solution involves abstinence pamphlets from 1987, which would be more effective if teenagers still used fax machines and thought Molly Ringwald was cutting-edge. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
There's a guy who thinks that if he can just control the input (Taylor Swift's music), he can control the output (his daughter's life). Human beings are a lot more complicated than a simple input-output machine. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
There's a guy who thinks that by banning crop tops, he can ban the sexual attention his daughter might receive. He's teaching her that her body is the problem, not other people's actions. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
This father is treating Taylor Swift's discography like a series of coded messages designed to trigger nationwide teen pregnancies. He gives a pop star way more credit for social engineering than she deserves. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
This dad is fighting a phantom menace in the form of a guitar and a catchy chorus, all while the real work of parenting goes undone. He's shadowboxing while his daughter grows up without a guide. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
I read about a father who is "visibly shaken" by his daughter's pop music-inspired poetry. He's having a stronger emotional reaction to a rhyme scheme than his daughter is to the music itself. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
A parent is using his daughter as an excuse to lash out at a culture he doesn't understand and is afraid of. He's making her the battleground for his own cultural anxieties. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G