Saturday, 21 November 2009

Diatribe of a reactionary old fart

It must be hard being young nowadays. What with being stabbed, the binge drinking and having no job. Needing a dozen A pluses to get into collage and seven or eight A levels to get into a university. No wonder they’re all so annoying.
It seems every day there is a new report coming out reminding us just how fucking awful it is to be young.
Black boys are doing terribly in the school league tables. They’re putting this down to the fact the black youths perceive academic success as, culturally, a white thing. This of course isn’t helping white working class boys who are doing equally as bad. No one told them culturally they should be excelling. The Asian kids are laughing. They’re doing alright but they have the unfair advantage of having parents.
The girls are doing much better. It’s shame that they’re just going to waste it all when they get pregnant.
Confusingly every summer everyone gets A’s.
Children seem to have divided into two groups. Lower class and illiterate with no prospects or middle class and excelling but with devalued exam results because all their peers are doing equally well.
I never got any A's at GCSE. To be honest no one did. Maybe one or two people a class (and they were swotty girls). Now everyone seems to be. This however will not stop them getting stabbed.
It’s not much better for younger kids. Growing up without the security of getting a slap. You see them running wild screaming, knocking stuff over as there doting parents look on, love in their eyes, thinking it’s the cutest thing ever while everyone else simmers in quite resentment.
We find any discipline now will be ignored because a) they’re just expressing themselves and any curtailing of this will damage them in later life or b) any adult talking to them for any reason clearly just wants to molest them.
We are at a stage where you can’t take a picture of your own child in a public places just in case you get someone else’s child in the frame and everyone knows what you’re going to use that picture for. O yeah we know. Pervert.
We’re going to have a whole generation of adults who won’t trust anyone. A professional adult can not be alone with a child anymore unless that is specifically their job description. I know of people who clean schools and if a child walks in and they are the only people in the room they have to leave. They have to walk out and leave the child on their own. Just in case.
Of course there are a lot of nasty bastards out there but they tend to be related to the kids. Sixty children a year are killed by immediate family or extended family. One is killed by a stranger and some years none.
If you really want to protect your kids don’t have any friends or relatives. Probably a good idea to fuck your husband off as well because you know he likes to bath them. Mmm. Dodgy.
So here we are. Sexualised at birth. Spoilt or beaten (depending on your class). Illiterate or with unrealistic life goals (depending on your class). Pregnant or stabbed before you’re twenty.
It used to be good to be a kid. No responsibilities, years to make your mind up what you were going to do. Fisty cuffs that ended in bragging rights and not intensive care and you couldn’t get laid for love or money.
Where were all these rampant, perverted older women when I was 14 eh? I could have done with one and now thinking back I know which one. O yeah. Mrs Grills. She was lurrrvely! If I was at school now I’d be fucking her.

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