This is just prompted by the other thread where the OP was called a cunt by a 10 year old. I had a similarly disturbing experience a few days ago. I was in my local park, running with my 14 year old DD. We passed some teenage boys (14 or 15 year old?) and they shouted out some abusive things at my DD. They were perfect strangers and there was no reason for it, except they were probably bored and my DD attracted attention as she is tall, slender and was wearing bright exercise clothes, so stood out. What surprised both of us is that they did this even though it was clear that I was with her - an adult. I actually stopped and called them out on it and got told to fuck off.
I just think that when I was that age, there was less of this in the presence of adults or directed at adults. I wonder why this is.
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Children and teens don’t see adults as authority figures anymore
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Notcontent · 28/08/2020 17:35
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