Why are we teenagers so feared ?
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The thing is that it's not just the chavs or people who dress vaguely like them that get feared. Or even is it limited to the cities. I mean I've lost count of the number of times that I've been walking down the road, minding my own business and people have either stopped or moved to the other side. And this is while walking alone, wearing plain black so they can't even really slot me into the goth or metalhead cliques.
However, I do think that the media does need a good kicking over this, and indeed just on general principal. The tend to focus on the negatives, and then blow them out of all proportion. The really nasty part though is that even as some parts of the media 'positively' fuel the chav culture (the tabloid press in particular), the rest 'negatively' enforces it. Simply put, I would bet that a fair number of the nastier chavs have gotten to that point because they're so feared, so disliked and despised by society.
As for myself, I'm probably just as guilty as the rest considering my views on the idiots, but there you go.
However, I do think that the media does need a good kicking over this, and indeed just on general principal. The tend to focus on the negatives, and then blow them out of all proportion. The really nasty part though is that even as some parts of the media 'positively' fuel the chav culture (the tabloid press in particular), the rest 'negatively' enforces it. Simply put, I would bet that a fair number of the nastier chavs have gotten to that point because they're so feared, so disliked and despised by society.
As for myself, I'm probably just as guilty as the rest considering my views on the idiots, but there you go.
Old hat, check my avatar history. I've got a better one with a white background if you want it?jamie5166 post=18.71397.722059 said:
Personally, I find it hilarious. From both sides.
Side 1: I like people being afraid of me. It means that when I decide to go out in my big-ass black trenchcoat, all goth'ed up and ready to go, metal blasting into my ears from my mp3 player, I always, without fail, get a seat on the train and about a 10m radius of personal space. Just because they think I'll attack them.
And the looks on people's faces when I make eye contact/say something to them/clear my throat/walk past them is just hilarious.
Side 2: When some complete twerp in a tracksuit and hoodie comes up to me and gets in my face for being one of these metalheads, I laugh in their faces. A true belly laugh because they are smaller than me, skinnier than me, and completely non-threatening unless they take out a gun. They pose no threat. They are funny. People are just strange...
As to why, it's the media, man. You hear about some teenager stabbing people, people getting mugged, gangs roaming the streets...all this stuff happening, oh god there's a teenager now let's run and pray he doesn't attack us! Really, the number of violent crimes has gone DOWN, but reports of violent crimes have gone UP. Funny that. The streets are safer but everyone is still afraid.
Side 1: I like people being afraid of me. It means that when I decide to go out in my big-ass black trenchcoat, all goth'ed up and ready to go, metal blasting into my ears from my mp3 player, I always, without fail, get a seat on the train and about a 10m radius of personal space. Just because they think I'll attack them.
And the looks on people's faces when I make eye contact/say something to them/clear my throat/walk past them is just hilarious.
Side 2: When some complete twerp in a tracksuit and hoodie comes up to me and gets in my face for being one of these metalheads, I laugh in their faces. A true belly laugh because they are smaller than me, skinnier than me, and completely non-threatening unless they take out a gun. They pose no threat. They are funny. People are just strange...
As to why, it's the media, man. You hear about some teenager stabbing people, people getting mugged, gangs roaming the streets...all this stuff happening, oh god there's a teenager now let's run and pray he doesn't attack us! Really, the number of violent crimes has gone DOWN, but reports of violent crimes have gone UP. Funny that. The streets are safer but everyone is still afraid.
The escapist never deletes posts, i'm not sure i'm fit to give an official explanation, but it might go like this.RAKtheUndead post=18.71397.723799 said:
"What does not kill us makes us stronger, only from remembering the mistakes can we progress"
It would probably actually go like this;
"Suck it up, move on and ignore it"
Not out of spite, but out of the escapists blend of free-range discussion and vengeful banhammer swinging... its just how they roll.
General Hospital has a very polite hacker who happens to be 19, although since he is polite now he must work for the mafia.EmileeElectro post=18.71397.723604 said:
This really is the quote of the day, right here. Fantastic. Also, I'm not concerned with whether it was purposeful irony or not.RAKtheUndead post=18.71397.722367 said:
You asked and I will give you a HONEST answer. Remember that this is just a Stereotype and while I DO share of it it may be offensive.
Teenagers today have absolutely NO RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES OR OTHERS. They dress badly ( loose pants that are too baggy and showing underwear ) and decorate themselves with horrible things such as body piercings and tattoos. They swear at random people and believe that they are superior when they are not and do not like to help anyone else but themselves. All they want to do is listen to horrible music loudly ( or what you kids these days call music....which reminds me of banging two trash can lids together ) and have no respect for peace and quiet....hence their noisey cars.
I am sorry to say that I agree with most of this....at least around where I live....and that is in a small town.
Sorry.
However with the bad their are also some teens that are NOT like this and are RESPECTABLE. Of those that are saying right now "but I am respectable" take another look and MAKE SURE OF IT.
Teenagers today have absolutely NO RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES OR OTHERS. They dress badly ( loose pants that are too baggy and showing underwear ) and decorate themselves with horrible things such as body piercings and tattoos. They swear at random people and believe that they are superior when they are not and do not like to help anyone else but themselves. All they want to do is listen to horrible music loudly ( or what you kids these days call music....which reminds me of banging two trash can lids together ) and have no respect for peace and quiet....hence their noisey cars.
I am sorry to say that I agree with most of this....at least around where I live....and that is in a small town.
Sorry.
However with the bad their are also some teens that are NOT like this and are RESPECTABLE. Of those that are saying right now "but I am respectable" take another look and MAKE SURE OF IT.
The polite ones always die first.
In the UK at least, you become a legal adult (ie, not a minor) when you hit 18. I don't count anyone as a teenager if they're 18/19. That's young adult/student age. Teenagers are 13-17.runtheplacered post=18.71397.724041 said:
Well, in my opinion anyway.
What are you guys talking about? I was under the impression that every British teenager was like those kids in Clockwork orange.
It is believed that the prefrontal cortex doesn't develop fully until your mid twenties. This part of the brain is thought to control higher abstractions related to decision making (ie teenagers tend to make decisions with less rational, than people do later in life)
So teenagers are physically at their peak, full of hormones and haven't developed full rationality.
I think a case could be made that teenagers are scary.
+2cents
So teenagers are physically at their peak, full of hormones and haven't developed full rationality.
I think a case could be made that teenagers are scary.
+2cents
I know alot of fellow teenagers reading this would be like 'oh, oh that's not me' I say it too.
I HATE chavs and they all need to die, slowly and painfully, I have no interest in 'syle' or 'fashion', they are for sheep. I don't care what people think of me (unless they think I'm a chav, but they coulndn't possibly think that because I don't wear shit-stoppers), I don't care for judgemental people and I'm not one myself so I don't judge people on what they look like etc.
I DO, however, game (Halo 1,2 & 3, CoD and other shoot-to-kill games) I watch movies where people kill each other (my fave kind is when everyone dies). I live on a street where people come home on a saturday night all bloodied up, and some guy got shot a couple of doors down.
I don't want to kill people, I don't dislike people unless they don't like me, I vent my anger inwardly (not a good thing by the way), if I feel too depressed I'll go sit on the swings in the local park and get dirty looks off parents of 5 year olds and get depressed even more. But there we go. I have some good friends (who, incidentally, don't want to kill other people either). I'm healthy, pretty happy (sometimes) and I have no ASBO's to speak of and never will. I'm too shy to do anything that'll get me noticed, yet here I am babbling on, the internet does funny things. I don't indulge in this 'social' thing, I have my close friends I've known for years, why would I need anymore?
Jesus this thing is long... anywho
What makes me so special? Not much. There are some reasons I shun what people whould percive to be the stereotypical teenage life: I have Middle Child Syndrome, I have some traits of being Autistic as my Mother, Brother and Sister have one form or another of it. My Father moved out so I'm surrounded by it.
And that's it, I'm telling no more.
I HATE chavs and they all need to die, slowly and painfully, I have no interest in 'syle' or 'fashion', they are for sheep. I don't care what people think of me (unless they think I'm a chav, but they coulndn't possibly think that because I don't wear shit-stoppers), I don't care for judgemental people and I'm not one myself so I don't judge people on what they look like etc.
I DO, however, game (Halo 1,2 & 3, CoD and other shoot-to-kill games) I watch movies where people kill each other (my fave kind is when everyone dies). I live on a street where people come home on a saturday night all bloodied up, and some guy got shot a couple of doors down.
I don't want to kill people, I don't dislike people unless they don't like me, I vent my anger inwardly (not a good thing by the way), if I feel too depressed I'll go sit on the swings in the local park and get dirty looks off parents of 5 year olds and get depressed even more. But there we go. I have some good friends (who, incidentally, don't want to kill other people either). I'm healthy, pretty happy (sometimes) and I have no ASBO's to speak of and never will. I'm too shy to do anything that'll get me noticed, yet here I am babbling on, the internet does funny things. I don't indulge in this 'social' thing, I have my close friends I've known for years, why would I need anymore?
Jesus this thing is long... anywho
What makes me so special? Not much. There are some reasons I shun what people whould percive to be the stereotypical teenage life: I have Middle Child Syndrome, I have some traits of being Autistic as my Mother, Brother and Sister have one form or another of it. My Father moved out so I'm surrounded by it.
And that's it, I'm telling no more.