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b_b  ·  3869 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Friends Without Benefits

Hold the fuck up. I'm calling BS on this, given that this article (and every other one I've read that is just like it) seems to suffer from an incredible lack of data. Teenage girls getting their hearts broken by asshole boys? Is that a new concept? Might as well be an 80's party movie. Drugs and partying? Uh, raves were an actual thing when I was young, and you don't see those anymore. Porn is everywhere now, and that seems to have some negative effects. I'm sure it's tough to be publicly shamed nowadays, as that's new, too. But come on. All of these issues are just more visible now. I know a lady who was sent away to a "home" in the early 60's for several months to have a baby (when she was 16) so that her family could hide the (forced) adoption. That was 50 years ago, and she wasn't the first, eh? I knew a girl in high school in the late 90's who blew her head off with a shotgun after her "best friends" decided she was a social pariah and turned on her. Seems like girls were bitchy and insecure back then, too. Knew another girl we used to call "Maureen the Blowjob Queen". She didn't need Chat Roulette to figure out how to slob a shameful amount of knobs. Here's a piece of advice to all you young people: don't take pictures of yourself that you'd be ashamed to be released into public. Other than that, kids are kids.