Response to "Innocence"

I said something along the lines of, "What is innocence or how did it come about" in Sutherland's class today. So these are my thoughts:

I don't know what being innocent actually means: free from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil-blameless, harmless in effect or intention, and free from legal guilt or fault-lawful. This was not helpful at all. These are the "terms" we discussed all day in class. The first thing that poped in my head was that someone was not exposed to the horrores of the world-completely disregarding any legal terms. The group I was assigned to discussed all of the questions Mr. Sutherland gave us, the we bagan to discuss all the scenarios that could have taken "someones innocence", the we bagan talking about personal thoughts of how we individually we are and how we feel about our innocence or even if we still have it. Annie brought up some very interesting points of how she isn't innocent to the world's problems but she is innocent to other things. This kind of gave our group another look one the term innocent, because of how many different ways one can be innocent.

Another aspect of innocents is what you think of yourself. You define how innocent or not innocent you are. Things can happen to you but you don't have to have it effect how innocent you are, but thats thinking of things as a "high school innocence". Personally, I feel bad for men. Being innocent isn't considered a good thing for them, usually if they are, they are ridiculed for being so-this was also a conversation in our group. We talked about how men who haven't slept with someone is usually outcasted for not being "cool" but if they sleep with many different partners they are considered a stud, but if a woman does this she is considered a slut. This duble standard confuses the hell out of me.