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Are teens today worse and more annoying?
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I've taught long enough for me to say from my own experience: naaaah.
I'm Hexbear's resident wokescold and I'll say the kids are different but not really worse overall than when I started. There's a lot less homophobia and even transphobia is on the wane somewhat, so there's that.
An unfortunate number of them are Tate-R-Tots right now, but hopefully that will fade because they tend to be assholes the other kids stay away from anyway.
I also feel like Andrew Tate fans are mainly younger teens and preteens
I was in middle school in 2016 and definitely noticed A LOT of guys were falling into reactionary sentiment and even into the anti-SJW to alt-right pipeline (leafyishere was basically the tate of our time). Anyways, those same people seemed to grow out of the edginess sometime in high school.
Think it’s just a maturity thing, 13 year olds are unfortunately easy to mold into bigots but are usually redeemable by the time they turn 18. Also, the kids seem much better at bullying each other for harmful beliefs lately
They are. Some don't shake as quickly as I'd like when they reach high school, and it worries me that they might try to put some of their idol's "lessons" into practice on their own dates.
I still don't condone bullying, but a soft sort of "that's cringe" vibe is certainly a good defense mechanism because Tate-R-Tots do hate being seen as pathetic by their peers.
Tbh some of the reactionaries in my grade took til 10th or even 11th grade