[lit-ideas] Re: jelly bracelets
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 21:17:05 EDT
Okay -- 3 or 4 responses didn't tell me much, but at least I'm not alone in
being clueless <g>. My 6th grader brought home a note from Middle School
telling parents that adults had become aware that girls were wearing different
coloured jelly bracelets and that for the students the colours were "codes".
I'd
noticed these jelly bracelets and thought them cute baubles. Depending on
which colour bracelet a boy "snapped" the girl wearing it was obliged to
perform
a sexual act. The teachers confiscated the bracelets and sent home the note.
My 12 yr old told me she knew nothing about the color coding until her
teacher explained to the class why she had taken the bracelets from the kids.
My
husband was reading the note and and said aloud "jelly bracelets"? My 10 year
old 4th grader who was walking through the room stopped and said, "You mean sex
bracelets?". When I managed to stammer "What?" she told me that in her
school (elementary school, yes) some girls wear bracelets called "sex
bracelets"
and if a boy snaps a colour the girl has to do something -- pink is kissing,
red
is french kissing, black is "doing it", etc. I asked how she knew this. She
said everyone knew it and if I wanted I could look at sexbraclets.com!
Apparently the children use it to learn the colour code. Then she asked me if
it
was "true" that those colours meant those things. I'll be mentioning this
phenomenon to the principal at the grade school who is, I'm sure, as clueless
as I
was. Sure enough, there is such a web site, which among other things
advertises sex toys and does give a guide -- one of the colours is for oral
sex. The
note that came home indicates that this is a phenomena that originated in
high school and has trickled down. I was curious to know if this is
wide-spread
in grade & middle school or a local thing; if I were alone in naive innocence.
Julie Krueger
ceaslessly appalled
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Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: jelly bracelets
Date:5/8/2004 7:07:57 AM Central Daylight Time
From:JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
To:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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You can have full credit if you mail me two boxes of kleenex.
Will you give me partial credit for this question, teacher?
Julie
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