“Sad by design” as Geert Lovink puts it.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/
https://thinkbelt.org/shows/interstitial/sad-by-design-geert...
U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence
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#52> More than 1 in 10 (14%) had ever been forced to have sex 14% of all the teenage girls are raped? How is this possible? I'm really not the one to grab the pitchfork first for sure but this... I don't know... How are we okay with this?
To the doubters replying to this comment I have to say, anecdotally, those stats check out with the people in my life. It’s a lot more common than you think. And no, I’m not talking about people who have sex and then regret it.
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#53We have rules and regulation on what we can physically eat (eg. most psychedelics drugs are illegal, maybe rightly so, I'm not contesting the validity of that, but just stating they exists) so why don't we have rules for mental food? It baffles me that I cannot eat some spices from Asia just because for most local people is kinda indigestible or not good, basically destroying the market for that kind of spice. Yet, w…
>Yet, we can allow big corps to produce shitty social media apps without any rules.
They do have rules. They publish the rules. You have to agree to the rules to get an account. On top of that, they're bound by numerous laws and regulations.
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#54Look around you and observe your friends, family, colleagues, or a significant other, but really: any adults. This is not only affecting "teen girls", and certainly not only US people. We need more research on this without "teen girls" in the clickbait titles. This affects everyone. It affected the person of my romantic interest and I had to break up at the end. This affects 30+ year old men too. Don't dismiss it. Be…
> This affects 30+ year old men too. Don't dismiss it.
Society does not care about male problems. Let's just label them incels or terrorists and be done with it. Also at the same time let's wonder why Andrew Tate and similar are easily getting such a huge following.
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#55> More than 1 in 10 (14%) had ever been forced to have sex 14% of all the teenage girls are raped? How is this possible? I'm really not the one to grab the pitchfork first for sure but this... I don't know... How are we okay with this?
It's probably based on the same flawed study I saw recently, which asked about sexual molesting, grouped "creepy staring" and "unwanted advances" into the same group and then reported it all as rape.
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#56We have rules and regulation on what we can physically eat (eg. most psychedelics drugs are illegal, maybe rightly so, I'm not contesting the validity of that, but just stating they exists) so why don't we have rules for mental food? It baffles me that I cannot eat some spices from Asia just because for most local people is kinda indigestible or not good, basically destroying the market for that kind of spice. Yet, w…
Mental spice ministry you say..
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#57Look around you and observe your friends, family, colleagues, or a significant other, but really: any adults. This is not only affecting "teen girls", and certainly not only US people. We need more research on this without "teen girls" in the clickbait titles. This affects everyone. It affected the person of my romantic interest and I had to break up at the end. This affects 30+ year old men too. Don't dismiss it. Be…
> This affects 30+ year old men too. Don't dismiss it. Society does not care about male problems. Let's just label them incels or terrorists and be done with it. Also at the same time let's wonder why Andrew Tate and similar are easily getting such a huge following.
Most problems people have after 25 or so are directly related to income, which would upset rich people's pockets, so no, they literally do not matter.
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#58> More than 1 in 10 (14%) had ever been forced to have sex 14% of all the teenage girls are raped? How is this possible? I'm really not the one to grab the pitchfork first for sure but this... I don't know... How are we okay with this?
Holy. damn. It is also up 27% since 2019. I hope US researchers and lawmakers take a long look at this as one of possible causes together with social media.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Meta partnered with hospitals and biotech firms and entered the plastic surgery business I think they could make a lot of money. They've already come this far in exploiting people, why stop?
I don't agree that this is Meta's fault. They gave females a window to the world and that made them depressed. Does this mean Meta should just close shop? Are they responsible for the mental health of their users?
I love how everyone here is blaming something different: parents, Meta, advertisement, political divisiveness, urban planning, society, lack of personal responsibility. Soon there will be more reasons, like violence and money. And they're right, sure. All of those are partially responsible.
But I feel we tend to give a pass to the people who are actually producing the content that is damaging a generation and making bank, as if they have no agency or responsibility.
Instagram would probably be great overnight if those people suddenly all disappeared.
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#60Look around you and observe your friends, family, colleagues, or a significant other, but really: any adults. This is not only affecting "teen girls", and certainly not only US people. We need more research on this without "teen girls" in the clickbait titles. This affects everyone. It affected the person of my romantic interest and I had to break up at the end. This affects 30+ year old men too. Don't dismiss it. Be…
> This affects 30+ year old men too. Don't dismiss it.
Society doesn't fix things unless women are affected
Its routine, right now in popular culture to regard rape as a joke, to make fun of the victims, to trivialise it, to limit discussions about it... Unless it's a female victim.
Same with violence, more men are victims than women, but only females receive the help and support.
Even with these new (dubious) numbers there is no mention that males still outnumber females in terms of suicides.