Film, Media & TV1 min ago
girls v boys
Not sure if I'm in the right place but here goes.
Sitting at my PC in my bedroom I hear childrens voices at the side of my house (I'm in an end terrace house). There were 4 of them, 2 girls and 2 boys of between 10 and 12 years old. They were having fun hurling abuse at passers by most of which was ignored. What amazed me most was the language. It was just downright nasty. I was brought up with the army round me so I'm quite used to bad language but what really got me was that it was all coming from the girls. The boys didn't say a word, they just sat on the grass and watched.
Are girls really worse than boys these days. I think they are.
Scariest of all is that one day these two little darlings will be mothers and they arn't the only ones I've seen display this sort of behavior. If they are the future God help this country.
Is it just me or are little girls being made of slugs and snails as well these days.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree with you wholeheartedly eupraxia, I live near a high school and the language and context from these adorable (?) kids is terrifying!
I have a 6 month old baby girl, and I sooooo dont want her to grow up into one of these fiends.
I also agree that girls, especially in groups, are far worse than boys, they are downright evil.
I live near a private pre-school & all the little children wear smart uniforms & straw boater hats, etc. All the Mummies & Daddies drop them off in their brand new cars, etc., etc., etc. However, when I was walking past there a couple of weeks ago, a little girl aged about four years of age, got out of a car, dropped her lunch box & shouted out "Oh sh!t".
I walked on thinking - "well that's a good start in life!".
Oh dear... do we all sound like our parents? I know I do. I agree that girls are far worse these days, and yet I'm sure that when I was 12-14 (in the mid 80s) it was the boys who were worse.
I've watched my neighbours grow up over the last 7 years with dread. The 'boy' was 14 when we moved in... quite a helpful sort, a bit anti-social in the music-playing department, but a bearable 21 year old now (if it weren't for the drugs and the 100s of cars parked out the front!) The 'girl' was 12... gobby, unpleasant, loud, rude, extremely anti-social and now she is the same at 19.
Oddly enough, we are thinking of moving!
You want to think about why people do this sort of thing.
Clearly in this example the intention is to shock.
Why is it so shocking to hear little girls swear at people but not not shocking to hear paratroopers do the same.
Could it just be that a lot of us have preconceptions of how certain people are supposed to behave and don't like it when those preconceptions pan out?
I like Dom's point about age. Maybe there should be an age limit that you can say bl**dy h*ll when you're 13 but can't use sexual swear words until you're 18 (unless you're a girl of course)
I also don't buy it that kids didn't sit on street corners and hurl abuse or stones at passers by until recently - or was all that stuff about Teddy boys with razor blades or Mods and Rockers made up?
I do agree that a lot of it is down to the way children are spoken to and yes we are sounding like our perants :-).
But over the years , taking my kids to school I have noticed that in some cases this sort of language is openly incouraged by some perants. Listening to some mother, they think it's cute when the first word that comes out of thier babies mouths is the F word.I try not to use such words around children, I really do. But Jake the Mods and rockers were all teenagers , not children of 10 and 11. we all know teenagers rebel thats what they do.My point was the age of these kids. Like other have said I don't remember talking like that to my elders when I was young and neither did my friends. You see from my age group it was the thing that only adults used those words and when you grow up you get to do it to, in the right context of course. The rights a passage where age is concerned have gone. Little boys wore shorts for the first years of their lives and they new they were grown up when they got their first pair of trousers. Little girls dressed in mummies clothes and practiced putting on make up but were always dressed to go out as little girls.
I'm now showing my age here but I guess times have changed and little girls now are carbon copies of grown women. Theres no distinction any more and in some ways is not nessiserily a good thing.
speaking as an ex girl,(now woman) girls were always worse than boys!!!
agree about the language. I do swear sometimes but only in company where I know will not offend and certainly not in public (I am now 51 and figure what the hell....). Mr Woofgang is ex merchant navy and I spent the first 20 years of our married life travelling with him. During all that time at sea, often the only woman on the ship, the only swearwords I ever heard were the ones uttered by me or the other wives.
Like shaney star's dad, my husband never curses in company (we have no kids) although he is olympic standard in both vocabulary and creativity!
Kids today have far more than I ever had as a child.I didn't have a mobile phone,computer,playstation,television in my room and so on...in fact we never had a television until I was a teenager. I read about a very sad case in the paper today where a gang of younsters beat up a 43 old man so badly he later died in hosptial.they asked him for a light for a cigarette and when he refused they attacked him.My dear old dad once said to me that we would see anarchy on the streets in this country one day and he was not far wrong.
I now find myself saying the same thing about loud music and often ask my son to turn that racket down !! Mind you he is 25.
But it's true what you say they are not children for long nowadays and when you hear of girls as young as 11 having babies it makes my mind boggle.
But we've *always* seen violent streets - Brighton Riots with Mods and Rockers, Teddy boys and hells angels. Kubrick withdrew "A Clockwork Orange " because of copycat attacks on innocent bystanders.
There was a slight lull in the war years when many of the thugs got a chance to kill and maim for their country but the streets were far from safe in Victorian England.
I don't know about any of you but I've been robbed more often by a man in a suit (pensions spring to mind) than by a thug with a knife.
Still at least he didn't swear at me while he was doing it