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I'm posting this because it's an extremely well written article with intelligent social commentary.
If you are going to comment please do so on the social nature and implications - ignore silly comments.
I'm posting this because it's an extremely well written article with intelligent social commentary. Very thorough and articulate reasoning.
If you are going to comment please do so on the social nature and implications - ignore silly comments.
As to the subject matter: personally, I think stuff like this is just a symptom (not a cause) of the fact that in large sections of society we are no closer to gender equality than we were half a century ago. The damage has been done long before girls become old enough to engage in sexual behaviour, and focussing on sexual behaviour is a red herring, though it can make for dramatic reading and heated conversations.
I disagree with you about the gender gap. I guess she also made that point among others. I don't think there is a gender gap, at least not significant.
The most important point that she makes is about society turning individualistic and away from communal activity - which is true. She is just exploring another effect of this happening.
Putting in tech terms, I find it hard to see every member of a family in the 1950's to carry cell phones - if cellphones existed back then. There would likely be one cellphone that the family shares - kids take it when they go out... Technology is definitely accelerating the move to more individualism. Not sure how far it will go though. Will each member of a family have a separate mailing address and mailbox even though they live in the same house? There used to be 1 television in the house and now that the cost is much lower there is one in every room..
She does something she calls the PBS documentary on and moves very swiftly from lurid tales of "train parties" to cold stats on teenage experimentation which struck me as a strange leap to make if you weren't trying to imply something the numbers didn't actually show.
It did occur to me (as someone old enough to be married with a kid) that since this was published nearly 4 years ago, and given the demographics of hacker news, which seem to skew quite low, that some people here would be able to call this as BS from their own personal experiences.