A reminder to everyone blaming parents: these children are growing up in a world where privacy doesn’t exist, so how could they value it? Corporations are targeting them and influencing their opinions and changing norms with resources a parent couldn’t even dream of. Blaming parents is an individualistic solution to a systemic problem. We’re not going to suddenly get better parents anyway, sorry.
I mean, most of your early value comes from your parents (or closest adult influence), and presumably the parents needed to buy the very expensive device.
So yeah they can be blamed.
Again, we aren’t going to suddenly become good parents as a species even if you’re correct. And blaming the parents gets us where? We have to change all the inadequate parents? Yeah right. Blame doesn’t get you anything but the ability to do nothing and feel superior about it.
Edit: Everybody that’s saying it’s the individual and not the system: same with cops? We can just tell them to be better and expect results?
Blaming shitty people for doing shitty things is fine. Any decent person can recognize the threat they pose. I would never buy a child (or anyone) a pair of these fucking things.
Refusing to blame the people responsible means you can’t take steps to correcting the behavior. You need the culprit identified first.
Refusing to blame the
peoplesystems responsible means you can’t take steps to correcting that system. You need the incentives identified first.Isn’t Meta really responsible for this? If they didn’t create and market and sell them, nobody, good or bad parents, would be able to buy them.
Blaming is the first step towards getting a solution from the people who caused the issue in the first place. Sometimes it’s not to us, specifically, to fix things.
Blame and shame, is the name of the game.
Blaming parents is an individualistic solution to a systemic problem
A system made up of individual people…
No one EVER wants to take personal responsibility. God forbid a parent actually parent and not just hand their child’s mind over to the state.
Timmy - Can I have meta glasses / mindrape myself with brainrot?
Parent - No.
Problem solved over night.
Shifting all of the onus onto the “mysterious system” is exactly what causes these issues in the first place. Its a cop out 100%. “Well I know I didnt even try but but but the system.”
Change happens when individuals nut up and take things into their own hands.
The parents are shitty parents and will continue to be so as long as people keep hand-waving any and all responsibility.
If you expect people to be better than they are, you’re going to be as disappointed in people as I am with your counterpoint.
I expect parents not to facilitate harrassment by purchasing pedo glasses for their child. Am I expecting too much? Maybe. But I literally cannot lower the bar any further.
The most likely abuser of a child is a parent.
This is a brilliant response.
Like, I agree with you, except that
Change happens when individuals nut up and take things into their own hands.
Could mean people get new legislation passed or something. Otherwise, we’re basically just telling people to choose not to be addicted to heroin.
Yet “it takes a school to raise’m”‽
It is the parents job to educate children the value of privacy, and how to maintain it.
Corporations, thus capitalism, exist because the parents have allowed them to invade their privacies too. Corporations wouldn’t exist if the demand for violating privacy existed: the parents are harassers too.It’s people’s own fault for being surveilled? For being stalked with flock cameras, for example? Just withdraw your consent and everything’s ok and capitalism collapses? If I’m incorrect in my interpretation of your words, please clarify, but in its current form I’m not challenged by it.
It is precisely the fact people are not challenging surveillance, flock cameras, capitalism, and violators of consent that harassment like this is institutionalized. Violations don’t occur overnight. It predates slowly, hunts, and makes itself systemic. Trump & MAGA are a symptom of systemic predation.
Now tell neighbors if they are ok being quartered by a predator. Because essentially, <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“16” height=“auto”> has been a predation paradise since forever.
That argument sounds an awful lot like: look at what she was wearing. Victim blaming is gross.
Yet ⅓ of the <img src=“https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6dedb145-206a-4b35-ab5e-c9e41e1130c7.png” alt=“Amerikkka” width=“24” height=“auto”> population voted for the predators. That’s grosser.
Yet “it takes a school to raise’m”‽
Yes… because it’s the parent’s job to make capitalist parasites richer, not raise children. That’s the whole reason we park our kids in the glorified creches called “schools” in the first place.
You can’t expect parents to teach their kids anything the parents never understood (or had the energy to understand) in the first place.
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I’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing about boys being victims of the manosphere but I kinda think gen-x are maybe just some of the worst fucking parents
Millennials haven’t done any better from what I’ve seen and heard.
Pretty sure mellenials are the majority of parents, including parents of teens, right now.
I don’t think so? Starting to creep into it though. Gen Z cut off (majority were parented by Gen X) is 14 years old right now, and people are having children older, so I think the gradient is still mostly gen X. Of course that doesn’t make millennials good parents either. I’m admittedly singling out Gen X based on personal vendettas, lol
Alternating generations don’t really line up with each other that well. Younger Gen Z are children of Mellenials.
I am on the ass end of Gen X (late 1970s) and almost 50. Most people had kids earlier than me and my kid is about to graduate.
The ass end 😆 I guess we could go find the actual mixture if it really mattered.
It’s really hard to take you seriously when you can’t spell millennial correctly, even with spell check and autocorrect.
Bold of you to assume I’m using either.
Yep. I’m a Xennial and could easily have grandkids like many in the small town I grew up in do. My millennial step-sister /is/ a grandparent (though she started young).
Agreed, looking at the article it is the parents or adults who are buying for the kids, or providing an allowance and the kids buy their own.
This is what happens when generations are raised without the word NO because some numpty has decreed saying no harms children. There was a time when NO meant NO.
I don’t think they’re raised with anything, not much yes either. My parents were really early Gen X, they fit the latchkey stereotype pretty well, and they had SUCH a laissez faire style of parenting that shocked me as I got older and compared more to my friends with boomer parents.
You think boys and men treating girls and women as objects and toys is something new in this generation?
I definitely don’t, but we hare having really different experiences if the world doesn’t seem to have backslid around the gamer gate thing in general. I think if you look throughout history it’s always been a two steps forward, one step back kind of progress for women, and right now we are definitely in the step back phase
Ok so it’s way too simplistic to say parents today are the worst then.
I still think it’s true, though
Whatever gets you through the night.
Ok
Normalize smashing pervert glasses on sight (while still on face).
Nothing that can’t be solved with an “OK” punch, right?
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Pervert Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
It’s part of the reason they don’t want phones in schools.
All they have to do is enforce harassment. It’s like trying to put a toy in timeout because your kid misused it. The kid learns nothing and moves on to the next toy. Simply put them into detention. The parents will fix that shit quick.
The parents will fix that shit quick.
They won’t.
Can confirm. My mom was an elementary school teacher for 20 years. She maintains to this day that the absolute worst part of the job was dealing with the parents.
Your kid has detention. that means someone has to pick their ass up :)
The dickhead kids I went to school with had detention all the time. Didn’t change a thing.
Obviously the existence of these pedo glasses is problematic to say the least, but aren’t they also super expensive? How the hell are kids able to afford these?
In Australian dollarydoos they start from $469. What teenager is spending $469 on anything?
well parents in the states already gift thier young teens expensive iphones/samsung phones as a way to communicate with them. meta glasses isnt a stretch. milleneals had the benefit of graduating hs before smartphones became common.
They have parents who consume their faux affection via monetary transactions.
Same way I spent $350 on a new iPod in high school back in the 2000s. Worked a part time job after school and on weekends.
No rent or bills makes it easy.
And they will wonder why nobody will treat them like an adult when they are physically old enough. At least that’s how it should be, IMO. My vote is to emasculate their toxic masculinity and treat them like the little boys they are.
If nothing else, they either be treated like little kids the rest of their life or maybe learn about a questionable kink they never knew they had if they don’t shape up.
clickbait gender wars bs? I guess we’re sliding back to reddit tier now?
Sounds more like a genuine problem of misogyny with the invasion of privacy and harassment of teenage girls.
I’m not saying there’s not a misogyny problem. Its the same old repeat divide and conquer playbook that I have issue with. You can see it all over the internet. We will never solve the root issue if we keep feeding this clickbait b.s. Purely designed to get people frothing at the mouth, its shitty “men bad” journalism.
