why is there so many ageism as of lately both online and irl? whenever someone speaks up for kids or youth in general they get falsely accused of being a pedophile and a danger to kids.
i even saw a post on reddit posting a server owned by minors and complaining about it like it’s the end of the world when that’s literally considered to be a form of targeted harassment. most of my youtube feed is also now filled with retarded videos making fun of kids, especially for them raging at a game, or some bullshit like “hurr durr child gets mad at me for trolling them on roblox because they were playing peacefully and weren’t hurting anybody XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD”
even ageism exists irl as well where i live (im american) and combined in with ableism too due to how fascist america has become over the years (especially since trump is president too). american westoids literally think internet addiction and social media addiction exists when they’re a myth by modern day pop psychology and are often a sign of adhd as well.
even america has history being racist towards black, brown skinned, indigenous and hispanic youth as well as being misogynistic towards women who are young too. im starting to see them gatekeep fandoms, video games, basically almost literally everything from minors because of the rise of neo puritanism online from terfs, christofascists, and such. also going as far as to say young people ruined everything, they have “too many rights”, call them “children”, call them “fan cops”, call them “puriteens”, and so on fourth. this is even from spaces and people who claim to be progressive or left wing as well
this seems be a western social media thing though cause i heard chinese furries treat kids better and a chinese fursuit company also let kids try on their fursuit as well. unfortunately some people are starting to become ageist as well especially after turning like 18 or 19 years old outside of social media and non western oriented platforms too
i even witnessed some ageism, misogyny racism and ableism in my life before because i was on the spectrum as well being black, hispanic and young which lead me to being depressed and suicidal during the pandemic. so why is there a rise of ageism out of nowhere all of a sudden? why did it appear during the pandemic and became prevalent ever since then?
52 posts and 9 image replies omitted.We actually made our Discord server, we used to have it be 18+, and we didn't have any content that was explicit in the Discord server. There's no pornography, no gore, no, you know, we're having in-depth political discussions sometimes, but nothing obscene. And I started thinking about this idea that the internet is incredibly segregated, and we talk about how we need to reach the youth, but then we make our spaces inaccessible to them. And I felt pretty uncomfortable doing it. I was like, well, you know, I don't want to be seen as like a creeper or something. I don't want to be seen as like some kind of weirdo for not having my server be 18+, but then it's like, you go to a business, the coffee shop I go to, it's only 18+, after 10pm for certain events, but the overwhelming majority of the time, anyone can go in there. You might be 16 and be hanging out in there. There's definitely something to be said about this thought process. I'm very much of the opinion that you turn 18, you become an adult, you get new adult shit, and I strongly dislike this belief system of like, okay, well yeah, you're 18, but you're not really an adult because your brain doesn't mature until you're 25, and then oh, actually, when you turn 30, you're cooked, so what, we get five years of actually being a young person? It doesn't make sense. It's not a logical fucking thought process. A lot of this shit is terminally online. The problem is that everyone's terminally online now, so it definitely has trickled into real life spaces too. I guess the point being is just like, if you want to talk about socialism, you want to talk about the future, you want to talk about the masses, but then you exclude everyone who's under 18 from that discussion, and you're going to have a lot harder time reaching people.
>>697631This.
People complain about society being youth oriented but they bar young people from worldly things
They don't like younger people having access to worldly things.
>>697631>There's definitely something to be said about this thought process. I'm very much of the opinion that you turn 18, you become an adult, you get new adult shit, and I strongly dislike this belief system of like, okay, well yeah, you're 18, but you're not really an adult because your brain doesn't mature until you're 25, and then oh, actually, when you turn 30, you're cooked, so what, we get five years of actually being a young person? It doesn't make sense. It's not a logical fucking thought process. A lot of this shit is terminally online. The problem is that everyone's terminally online now, so it definitely has trickled into real life spaces too. I guess the point being is just like, if you want to talk about socialism, you want to talk about the future, you want to talk about the masses, but then you exclude everyone who's under 18 from that discussion, and you're going to have a lot harder time reaching people.This whole "24-30 is the new 18" is marketing scheme to extend adolescence to sell more toys and surveillance products to people.
It's a cute little cover for normalization of arrested development.
Alot of these people who talk about "muh brain development" are age sensitive because they haven't really achieved much in their prime years.
Back in the boomer era, people started their adult lives at fourteen. Had kids and a house of their own by twenty.
Back in those days, there was less liability laws. Education was more blue-collar oriented.
Nowadays, people spend their twenties in college, which is another stage of high school.