holy shit that's so true, we really are all caught in this vicious cycle of our boys being emasculated and our girls being turned into victims, They really were telling us that we were to repeat a cycle or end up homeless... I was lucky to escape, in 97 just before the madness really got cranked up.
We had classes called "Conflict Resolution" because they made the consequences of two teenage boys fist fighting just a step below expulsion... and that's of course after we were scared to death by AIDS and told the harsh "realities" of drugs by the D.A.R.E. program. http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp See that black shirt? The stoned senior soccer players would talk about how great a program is was while high on the evening news.
I've rambled too much... I did this in Art School just a month or two before Columbine... I was reading about Kip Kinkel and the others sheep heading to slaughter.
I think you're oversimplifying. I mean, if boys are being emasculated, and girls are being victimized, then who's doing the attacking on whom and why?
It's true that the problem is social in nature. I'd also agree with the comic in this case when it hints that the solution should be additive, not subtractive. Give kids a life worth living -- regardless of whacked-out gender roles that nobody's playing into anyways (we're all little boys and girls on the inside, right?) -- and they won't be so hell-bent on killing each other, scraping their flesh into tattors, wallowing in their ennui, or whatever else it is kids do for fun these days.
Nice picture, by the way. What was the medium? It looks too rough for pencil, but too neat for charcoal.
scratchboard, and I am oversimplifying... my point is that children aren't allowed to be themselves... they're told they're basic instincts and feelings are wrong, and I think it's carrying over to adults as well.
If Fidelity to freedom and democracy is the code of a civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten comandment that says "we shall give our children better than we ourselves recieved" "West Wing" actually funny enough
This line is drawn in our minds as we grew up. Where we grew up, who helped us. I agree with you both but with giving the "better" we must also instill the "understanding". They will still rebel but it's only natural. Parenting doesn't end at that point. It just becomes hands off. Giving guidance from a distance so when our young adults fall down the hole we can be there to help them crawl back up and elevate themselves from "Their experiances". Such as you have done for yourself. Make them see hope. Crosby
We had classes called "Conflict Resolution" because they made the consequences of two teenage boys fist fighting just a step below expulsion... and that's of course after we were scared to death by AIDS and told the harsh "realities" of drugs by the D.A.R.E. program.
http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp
See that black shirt? The stoned senior soccer players would talk about how great a program is was while high on the evening news.
I've rambled too much... I did this in Art School just a month or two before Columbine... I was reading about Kip Kinkel and the others sheep heading to slaughter.
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It's true that the problem is social in nature. I'd also agree with the comic in this case when it hints that the solution should be additive, not subtractive. Give kids a life worth living -- regardless of whacked-out gender roles that nobody's playing into anyways (we're all little boys and girls on the inside, right?) -- and they won't be so hell-bent on killing each other, scraping their flesh into tattors, wallowing in their ennui, or whatever else it is kids do for fun these days.
Nice picture, by the way. What was the medium? It looks too rough for pencil, but too neat for charcoal.
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"The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue"
-Ms. Pomerain to Donnie Darko
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"West Wing" actually funny enough
This line is drawn in our minds as we grew up. Where we grew up, who helped us. I agree with you both but with giving the "better" we must also instill the "understanding". They will still rebel but it's only natural. Parenting doesn't end at that point. It just becomes hands off. Giving guidance from a distance so when our young adults fall down the hole we can be there to help them crawl back up and elevate themselves from "Their experiances". Such as you have done for yourself. Make them see hope.
Crosby
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