[ SECRET POST #4183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4183 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 67 secrets from Secret Submission Post #599.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Or maybe they're kids who think dumbass things because they're kids, and kids always think dumbass things? and as they grow up they'll be slightly less dumbassed because they're not kids anymore?

I mean, the Baby Boomers said the same shit ("never trust anyone over 30"), so this isn't even, like, a new issue.

[wynddancer]

It's not the usual dumbassery though. The problem is that they're calling adults in fandom pedophiles. They've even gone after published authors like John Green, since he writes about teenage relationships, calling him a pedophile. It's pretty ugly.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying it's not stupid.

And OP didn't actually say that they were only, exclusively, specifically limiting their comments to the "pedophilia" stuff, so I think I'm justified in talking about the more generalized comments about disliking older people in fandom.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Yeah this is some of the shit that led me to getting off Tumblr. They're bullies and gatekeepers who are just as bad as the chuds on Xbox Live, just in a different way.

[(Anonymous)]

I fucking hate this "all kids say dumbass things" meme because it isn't fucking true

every generation has SOME kids who say dumbass things, and those are the ones you hear from, but you know what? I was a dumb teenager in fandom and I didn't ever run around saying all adults were horrible, or being in ship wars, or bashing female characters, or WHATEVER

if I thought dumb stuff that I've forgotten about, there is no record of it because I had the good sense to lurk and listen and understand community norms before I opened my fool mouth, and also didn't feel the need to rush into conflict to harass and control other people

kids like me fucking exist, and it's not HOMG UNPOSSIBLE to expect teenagers to display a few specks of critical thinking or consideration for others. they're old enough to start learning how to behave as independent people in low-stakes situations

TLDR "Kids will be kids" is almost as bad as "boys will be boys". don't enable the suicide-baiting, power-tripping, egotistical little pricks

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not justifying it at all. It's stupid (as I already said), and it's indefensible, and they should knock it the hell off.

I'm also not interested in pretending this is more novel than it really is, and I'm especially not interested in turning it into another moral panic about how evil and dumb all the Kids These Days are, with just as little justification or sense as every previous moral panic, or flipping out about how Tumblr Is Ruining Everything.

[(Anonymous)]

Ok. But literally none of those things are happening in the secret.