Nobody can understand how frustrating it is when, say, your younger siblings are pissing you off and and your parents don't care and tell you to suck it up, then you finally snap because of the complicity and then they act like your the asshole and sanction you because of that, but your siblings get off scot free.

Because, maybe, say, if parents actually listened, you wouldn't have snapped in the first place, would you?

I find this a completely abysmal excuse, as I'm sure many do. Favouritism and infanticizing is just another form of adultism, and the sooner it stops, the better.

Edit: this didn't actually happen, but it's just a deep dive on the hypocrisy of adultism, don't worry 🥲

Hey peeps. One thing I've notticed is all the types of people who babble about equality and us all deserving the same treatment change their tune when it's the 18 or 21 debate. Suddenly that measly three years is this huge gap and 18 to 20 year olds don't deserve the same rights as their three to one year older peers. I hate the 21 stuff with my entire soul and have since before I was 18. I'd wipe that sorry excuse of a milestone from peoples memories if I could. I'm 27 and still don't see the difference. I mean what is it currently? 2004 borns and 2007 borns. Oh yeah majorrr diff 🙄

ageists are weirdly obsessed with gen z (typically young and middle gen z) sometimes like bringing up how they police ppl's queer identities when i seen it from other generations (who are also the most ageists as well)

but i also realize they tend to be weirdly hypocritical too like talking about how they're the best generation to be in a relationship with when they literally harassed us over stupid stuff such as exploring our sexuality aka "invading" nsfw spaces (when i see ageists do the same thing but with sfw spaces by using sfw tags) or stuff we're groomed to believe in such as believing thought crimes are real. which isn't true.

but i definitely came across ageists believe they're real after claiming they're not and having a hard time differentiating fiction or fantasy from reality after harassing gen z for being indoctrinated by the right wing using the algorithm and their attempt at disguising themselves as "positive", "progressive", etc by using certain aesthetics such as brightly colored (aka scene or scenemo), grunge, pink, or dark and punk-ish or gorey aesthetics for example to spread even more hatred, brainwashing/grooming, and bigotry

i have nothing against age-gap relationships between adults since i'm almost 19, and would sometimes talk to people double, or nearly triple my age whether it be sexual or romantic. but as a gen z who witnessed ageism both online and offline, not only do i find it quite weird sometimes, but i instantaneously also find it insanely hypocritical on how the same people or generation that's been ageist to us middle gen z's, now suddenly finds us attractive out of nowhere. probably because most of us reached the magical age of adulthood.

but i also think it's creepy and predatory in a way since the rest of gen z are still teenagers. back when i was 16-17 i always thought it was hypocritical but also creepy and weird that they found us attractive after simultaneously harassing us and being ageist to us because of right wingers and the right winged algorithm brainwashing half of the same generation during lockdown

idk. bunch of yapping

1. The lockdowns were very ageist. COVID barely affected anybody under about 70 years old, yet young people were forced to lock down for a disease that didn't affect them.

Can you imagine old people being locked down for a disease that only affects young people? Yeah, I can't imagine that, either.

2. Too make it all the worse, young people were sometimes actually held to the longest lasting restrictions because young people got vaccinated last. For example, here in the US, it was common in 2021 for an unmasked parent to be walking with their masked child under 12, because children under 12 couldn't be vaccinated until later.

3. Lockdowns created a precedent for government tyranny that is now being used against youth rights, particularly in the form of social media bans.

For example, in the 2010s, before COVID lockdowns, nobody suggested to ban people under 16 from social media.

Then, in something like May or June 2020, which was something like 2 or 3 months after lockdowns began, Jonathon Haidt began writing some articles claiming that social media websites need to ban anybody under 16 and that they should use Orwellian age verification to do so. That idea didn't really spread outside of the Haidt cult until late 2023, but Haidt first started writing about that idea right after COVID lockdowns started.

And it's hard to believe it's coincidental that there were calls for governments to pass tyrannical measures banning anybody under 16 from social media right after the precedent was set for governments to act tyrannical with COVID lockdowns.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-congressman-suggests-children-receiving-free-school-lunches-rcna189614

Really unfortunate.

His last book before "The Anxious Generation" was literally titled "The Coddling of the American Mind". But I'm never heard of anything that's intended to "coddle the mind" as much as those social media bans he's proposing.

He still claims to want kids to have more outdoor freedom. But is there really any doubt that the outdoors is actually more dangerous than social media is? (Regardless of how exaggerated the supposed dangers of the outdoors are.)

Well, as the title states. I worked for cps and case after case a parent would beat the shit out of their teen and if the teenager even tried to defend themselves or escape the parent would call the police and without question the kid would be arrested. It's incredibly unfair, especially how small teens are until they fill out in their 20s.

I've also traveled and lived abroad a lot. Teenagers are actually allowed to go out and figure themselves out. The level of control isn't normal in the US (and a big reason why I think parenting is unreasonably stressful...you don't have to be a dictator). I don't believe in teenager rebellion, I believe a person gets pissed off from micromanagement. Your parents should help and guide you, not lord over you and helicopter.

I have no idea why adults forget this. I remember my father would fly into rages every single time I did my own thing. My own thing litterally going on a bus and running a track race, or selling paintings. He was such an overbearing parent my brother actually ended up constantly breaking into buildings and causing chaos to stress him out, he quite litterally created the crazy teen scenario. I just learned to lie constantly which is even more dangerous. All for what? Because you wouldn't want to do athletics?

Yall should be able to go and figure it out with people your age. Everywhere else it's normal. You're supposed to be forming your identities and it's a huge reason why people explode and act an animal in college, you were supposed to as a teen.

i've been seeing people with the 'adult supporter' flair here as of lately and i don't know what does it mean

“Advocacy Day” 🙄 is in April. And I think it’s time for us to stand up and be louder. They are the reason this industry exists in the first place.

I'm asking since I'm hopping off Reddit soon (I don't feel like doing it now tbh) and the only thing I don't have are resources for Youth Rights.

Reddit is incredibly toxic and it just doesn't work for me anymore. So many people on this website have no clue on how life works (I definitely don't know everything about life, but at least I don't act like I do) and there are so many smug people this site.

Obviously, there are exceptions like this sub.