Here are some concepts that I’ve felt existed but needed to be written about. Feel free to use them, that’s what they’re here for:
Negative agism: used often in reference to primitive biases, where youths have no protections from anything for any reason and they are directly quieted by society.
Positive agism: used mainly for modern biases, [...]
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I’ve just finished taking two days’ worth of standardized testing at school, so I’m tired. I have a post in progress, but right now I’d just like to sit and not think or write. I went to Hair recently, and it started with the hippies in the audience smoking weed, handing out flowers, and hanging [...]
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Percentage of American teenagers who report that their schoolwork makes them anxious: 82; Who report that their love life does: 57.
Percentage of teenagers who lose their virginity in their own or their partner’s home: 54; In a parked car: 12.
Percentage of teenagers’ favorite songs that they say are about sex, violence, satanism, or drugs: 7; [...]
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Kids in sociology class came to our class Friday and asked us a series of random questions, one asking what students thought of teenage marriage. Out of 32 students, 83% were for it; the rest either against or didn’t vote.
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