In Reply to: ? posted by anada on Thursday, 22. October 2009 at 15:25 Bali Time:
my two cents worth....we live here and yes of course these guys think western girls are much older...this is no excuse...how ever, westerners have thought it all so funny to tell these guys lovely little things to put on stickers, tshirts etc...do you think they come up with those lovely sayings themselves? There s a mentality amongst some tourists thats stuff like that is funny....most of it is just gross. Completely agree about the way some young girls act around these guys. We were sitting on 66 beach last weekend and there was two girls, at most 13, flirting outrageously with some beach boys..to a point of almost obscene. Mummy and daddy were sitting in full view, drinking. That must cause huge mixed messages to the locals.Don't start carrying on at me...simply relating what we see on a daily basis.
Must also add that whilst back in Australia recently as walking on a main road with my teenage daughter around 9pm, and was actually terrified by a carful of morons that said things to my daughter that completely sickened me. Stuff happens all over the world and I guess its our jobs to protect our kids, whether its in Bali. Aust or anywhere.