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Respect
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17147012
"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy
I think you need to speak to some actual teenagers. A subset of every generation thinks they're on a holy crusade to right the world's wrongs, but most of them grow up.
No, most of them give up as adults. Doesn't mean those problems disappeared. I've met damn few men I would consider grown up.