I live in a college town where the college is part of the city rather then being set apart from it and couldn’t even begin to tell you the number of things the freshmen do to put themselves in extreme danger cause they’ve never had to look out for themselves.

The number of times I’ve been walking home from work at one or two in the morning and thought “I should rob them just because they’re practically begging someone to” when they’re walking down the street oblivious to everything around them, usually texting or talking o their phone, is just obscene (not that I ever would, but the thought still crosses my mind).

Then there’s the ones that will look right at a car going 30 miles per hour and step right in front of it in the middle of the block with it only 20 feet or so away….

It’s always amazed me that there’s not a higher rate of theft, rape, and accidents on that campus due to their stupidity, yet when something does happen everyone wonders what the college could do to prevent it.

Stop preventing it…. let kids make some mistakes so they can learn from them. While we’re at it, stop protecting them from the consequences of their mistakes. If they see the effects of their actions on themselves and others, maybe they’ll actually take steps to improve their actions.

And I’ll stop now before I really turn this into a rant…

Kids turn into young adults and they are still as childish and immature as they used to be. I have friends that go through life not being told what a jerk they are and how rude they are and they wonder why they go through friends fast. I tell it to them to their face when they upset me or do something to make me angry. Now they know better than to act a certain way around me so they don’t.

On a small scale i remember when playgrounds were made of metal and had dangerous rides. Now they are all plastic and santized of danger. We learned quickly how to play on a playground. Now all kids do is run around and don’t get hurt b/c there’s nothing to hurt them, even falling off the slide just a nick is felt. They are told to keep hands to theirselves, to constantly walk, to do this and that for their protection when we really only hurt them in the long run from learning what not to do. Conceptually the kids can’t learn from their mistakes so when they do make a mistake later it’s a much bigger deal than it ought to be.

On the second place, just because a site is about the beauty and even the sensuality of teen males it doesn’t mean it leads to people harassing boys with embarassing and disgusting remarks or offensive contents on their videos.

JUST LIKE a website about the beauty of women, of their sexuality, of their naked bodies isn’t supposed to lead to people harassing every woman on the web or the street with disgusting and unrespectful remarks.

There’s absolutely no difference between this place and any similar “heteresexual” blog. The idea that admiring beauty or discussing sexuality leads to verbal molestation is the same as claiming that every hererosexual man that visits a blog with pics of artistic naked women will naturally verbally molest any woman on the street or as claiming that if someone rapes a woman the woman is to be blamed because her clothes were too arousing. Which of course is retarded, like everything you’ve written.

The idea that if you’re protected from the world till you’re 18 (a meaningless arbitrary and scientifically irrelevant age) you’ll be able to deal with the harsh reality and protect yourself is absolutely ridicolous. Being protected till age 18 from life, will just make you unable to deal with life until you have a chance to deal with it on your own and learning from it without intromission. So in the truth there’s no difference between letting a 15 years old deal with reality or a 25 years old deal with reality, it’s a leap of fate in both cases because nothing prepares you for that: not school, not voting and certainly not being infantilizing and overprotected for 18 years. Do you think or a human being is it more traumatizing to be a part of society, dealing with reality and discovering new situations little by little or being protected and kept ignorant for 18 years and suddely thrown in the harsh world without preparation?

Otherwise you’re just repeating the old dogma of how vulnerable, inferior, easily traumatized and incompentents kids below an arbitrary, and without any link to actual physical and mental maturity in humans, age are and this sounds kind of insulting in a blog devoted to youth and respecting youth.

Remember that in any kind of discriminatory context, the concept of “protecting someone” has been used to make feel the “protected” person inferior and easy to control.
That’s what happened with black people slaves or women discrimination, the justification for treating them like second-hand retarded citizens was that they neeeded to be protected. Protecting teens against their will and without any consideration of the fact that they’re mature enough and want to prove their maturity by dealing themselves with situations in their life (the only way they can learn how to deal with society) is actually a lack of respect not respectful.

The truth is that teens need to learn to deal with embarassing or unpleasant social situations. They need to communicate with others and learn to defend themselves. And if they were talking with someone in a fastfood and they were being asked private and embarassing questions and you appeared to stop the ones asking the questions, I’m sure those teens would not be grateful but very angry at you, for treating them like babies that can’t get out of trouble without your obsessive and infantilizing help. And what you have obtained is not preventing embarassing moments will a magic age, but you have prevented them from learning a lesson on how to deal with such situation and turning 18 or 30 or 40 won’t magically make them learn to get out of such situations, only having a chance to deal with the situation themselves will do and the sooner the better.

The internet will not be stopped. It will continually be used and exploited as will and has every new invention. People use the most up to date technology to belong, unite, be a cohesive structure. Idealism is dead, replaced by knowledge. The imagination is trumped by knowing. Dreams, hopes, crumble like a massive wall that has grown old and weak with the influx of knowledge to everyone. The ability to know has reached such a height that everyone wants to be specific and precise like scientists. Facts are seen as definitive and as such are desired in the chaotic world we find ourselves in.

As such the people of the Earth look for stability in a chaotic world. Knowledge is stable, a fact doesn’t change and is irrefutable. The way to get ahead is through knowledge after all Knowledge is power so people want to know not just facts but everything they can. The questions, the videos, are all part of this bond to the concept of knowledge, of knowing with absolute certainty. With knowing one can recreate or predict a desired path. This also allows a person to change their image in order to fit into another person’s path. It’s all based upon utility, what serves the single person best over the large group.

The question best asked is “Why the desire to know?” Blissful ignorance may serve the self best. The imagination is still the highest tool gained to all those that have gone through the process of knowledge. Life is still unpredictable no matter how much control and ‘precautionary’ measures are taken. Ask yourself what is lost with knowledge. Would the stories you were told have nearly been as interesting if you knew why or how the characters came about or if everything was explained.

I enjoy admiring the beauty of the boys on this site and occasionally following their youtube or blog sites. I never try to get to know them via facebook. If i want to comment i’ll leave it on their youtube or other site. If they want to talk then they will. I would use the word respect but it’s parameters are different to all. Use your brain before you use your words.