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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school
Replying to @madeindex@lemmy.world
I think young men don’t know how to flirt anymore. I think many of them think they are flirting in some weird way but they have no clue that they are actually bothering/pestering/harassing these woman. I mean I know too many young men that don’t have licences, don’t know how to use a lawn mower, can’t ride a bike, completely useless men…just can’t do anything besides go to school play video games and not much else.
I do blame technology. Keep your kids off online gaming imo. Bust out the old games or only let them play offline games on a console or PC. Especially no cell phone games. Cut YouTube to practically nothing. Get them outside…
I think about the issues with modern dating often, flirting included. One of my perspectives is dating culture is an extension of social culture which is an extension of communal culture, and unfortunately communal culture is dying in America. From something as common as college kids getting educated out of state then starting their career at a 3rd location, to something more systemic like the formation of the rust belt, local communities have been eroding.
Without an established generational history of people talking, connecting, enjoying each other, flirting, and dating no one can really know the difference between expressing interest and harassment as that difference now depends on what your algorithm says and what your echo chambers reinforce.
In short everyone is playing by a different set of social rules, video games may play a part in this via social isolation, but I think the greater socioeconomic system we’re all bound to is much more culpable.
My landlords raise my rent every year, forcing me to move every year.
Why would I bother to foster a sense of community when the community will throw me out at the nearest convenience for profit?
Exactly, the system we live in undermines communities, this is just another example.
This has nothing to do with flirting. They harass girls to feel in control and take out their dating frustration on someone else
Replying to @late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net
I was just trying to guess that they think they are flirting but they are so far gone they have no idea they are harassing just a theory. They still are in the wrong not downplaying it
Replying to @Surp@lemmy.world
Not having a license or not knowing how to use a lawn mower is being useless these days
My point being is they don’t know how to do normal everyday things, I can’t write out the thousand normal everyday things in one post…nor would I. Chores are something that are proven to help children aged 10-17, from first-hand experience where I live and interacting with hundreds of kids from different backgrounds, seem to somehow have next to no responsibilities. Obviously going to be different circumstances wherever you live.
www.aacap.org/…/Chores_and_Children-125.aspx