Was that supposed to be funny? No, awkward and shameful is more like it: how Camille Saroyan began to stammer and act really embarrassed when it came to Michelle dating a boy. And how would you see Booth's interference with the boy as anything else than an unsolicited intimidation by a puritan?
Would you, as a teenager, care to take advice from such persons who have failed to grow up and can't talk matter-of-factly about dating and sex? - Well, I thought so.
Hey, Hollywood writers, get your screenplays with such annoying father/mother characters up-to-date: in times where a lot of teenagers have access to the Internet and to information about sexuality, parents should act more maturely and lead their soon-to-be-adults teenage daughters and sons - not to chastity (that never worked anyway) but to self-determined, responsible decisions that could also welcome sexuality as an absolutely natural and enriching experience.
Would you, as a teenager, care to take advice from such persons who have failed to grow up and can't talk matter-of-factly about dating and sex? - Well, I thought so.
Hey, Hollywood writers, get your screenplays with such annoying father/mother characters up-to-date: in times where a lot of teenagers have access to the Internet and to information about sexuality, parents should act more maturely and lead their soon-to-be-adults teenage daughters and sons - not to chastity (that never worked anyway) but to self-determined, responsible decisions that could also welcome sexuality as an absolutely natural and enriching experience.