• The Picard ManeuverOP
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      565 months ago

      I’d hope so too, but I worry that even the smartest kids could fall for something that perfectly targets the specific thing they’re really insecure about.

    • mommykink
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      195 months ago

      It’s not the 10 year Olds that are doing it, it’s the disaffected, terminally online 20-somethings who have grown up in a hyperficial world with very little opportunity to form real, natural relationships. Ask your daughter in ten years if she’d do something harmful for the chance of increasing her attractiveness.

    • RBG
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      You have no idea what constant peer pressure, gas lighting, and unobtainable beauty standards can do to a young person. I do hope your kid will be able to resist that, but chances are once she is a teenager the situation might be different.

      • @[email protected]
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        185 months ago

        You have no idea

        Chances are he’s old enough to have been young and knows all about this. At least I do and I was not that dumb. And if you reply that it’s worse nowadays, let me teach you about what happened since the 60s…

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          If you’d elaborate on what you are alluding to in the last sentence, I’d be happy to read it because I have no clue what you are referring to. You mean this kind of stuff was worse in the 60s? Sorry, English isn’t my first language and your sentence makes no sense to me.