@MentORPHEUS Y’know, that tune puts me in mind to reflect on my own life at 13… and it was the pits for sure. Teenage angst is real, very real.
What it sure as fuck doesn’t need, is society as a whole having a moral panic over teenage boys, and subsequently demonising their existence. I’ve listened to multiple radio shows this week that have had parents saying how they’ve performatively sat their teenage sons down and and made them watch the show.
It’s a fiction! And yet, unsurprisingly, the halfwit population has drank the koolaid and ran with the zeitgeist…
Not
“how can we help teenage lads achieve better outcomes”
But
“as a teenage boy you are innately dangerous and must have measures figured out around you”
It’s literal castration. The UK is immeasurably fucked and everyone’s okay with it.
What would I feel amongst my teenage angst if society had only that message for me… I’m scared for them.
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