Teen Wolf
 

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to all of-age teens: im a werewolf and I like it ruff

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Ahahaha NOW SASQUATCH CAN PLAY HALO 3!

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And then every last one of them is shown on camera with emo hair. :tpg:

It's things like this [and Twilight] that make me fear where today's youth is headed.

Yes, because there wasn't an excessive amount of lame in every generation prior to this one, too.

I don't know man these guys almost make the regular emo dipshits seem respectable by comparison.

They're just teens who want to be special and feel welcome where they'd otherwise be ostracized. It doesn't matter if they're goth, vampires, werewolves, emo, scene, the basic underlying psychology is the same even if some cliques are just co-opting cash cows.

Mayhaps the root cause is the same for all these groups but it seems not turning yourself into the most ridiculously hard to take seriously target would help quite a bit.

I guess unless your aim is to create a cycle that feeds your own preexisting persecution complex. If that is the aim then bravo they're succeeding masterfully.

Yeah but they're still just kids who don't comprehend the broader implications of their lifestyle choices. As far as they're concerned nobody understands them anyways, so why not be as weird and different as possible? The funny thing is that to their minds they are an open and inclusive group, when in fact their eccentricities turn into exclusionary behavior. Because membership in the group is reliant on some weird external quality like wearing a tail or animal eye contacts they're shutting themselves off from the larger student body.

Not enough is done anywhere to seriously address this kind of thinking, because the best situation for everyone involved is to allow people to express themselves however they feel but not to organize based on those expressions. What we require is a society of mutual respect and acceptance, and the fact that we don't seriously address bullying and emotional distress in many classrooms is a clear indicator that we are far from that goal.

But on the other hand, one's ability to integrate with the larger part of society is critical to future success. While it'd be nice if that weren't the case, you'd be doing these kids a disservice by encouraging them in this behavior. There needs to be a corrective influence. Mockery and ostracization by their peers is not the healthiest form of correction, but it is the most natural.

I'm not sure that any amount of in class discussion is going to overwrite the fact that both grouping up according to arbitrary lines and persecuting the hell out of whoever isn't your group is pretty well wired into human nature. Failure to expose them to this shit while they're still in school where the situation can be watched and at least hopefully kept from getting out of hand is failing to prepare them for adult life and surely we have enough manchildren with excessive self esteem and no coping skills being produced as is.

Nature's got nothing to do with it. People are conditioned from an early age to feel that people who are different from themselves are strange and alien until experiences which contradict that inclination occur.

What's the basis behind the claim that nature has nothing to do with it? Is it just that babies exposed to more kinds of people grow up to be more open-minded? I'd question the assumption that giving a baby a broader base level of experience necessarily means that it won't naturally find things outside of that experience to be alien and difficult to understand.

Babies do nothing but eat, piss, and poop.

Odd, I would have never seen that group coming (not). First Gothic, then Vamp kids, then Emo, now Teen Wolves....ok.