Reviews for In Defense of Teenagers

Reviews For: In Defense of Teenagers

bobbysinblack 2004-03-19 ch 1,	yeah, my bro gave me his guitar and today i was cleaning all his stickers off of it and mum comes in and shes like 'don't take all the stickers off!' and i told her i wanted it to be my own thing you know? and she goes 'alright, just don't go putting clothes labels on it' i mean, what the ? as her daughter, she should know that even if i had the money, i'm not clothes orientated...and who puts billabong and roxy or whatever in now stickers on a guitar? a guitar?!?!?! its just so completely URGH. she thinks that the reason we argue is because i'm acting like a typical teenage rebel without a cause. its , the motheruckers dont realise that if we're ** 'all the time' it's because of them and their expectations and their pressure and their god damn everlasting quests for perfection. sorry if we're not up to scratch, it's just that, we're human beings too -we're not perfect! this was good good good, write more hey, and remember this when you're 30, you better not be like these god damn geriatric neurotic paranoid mid-life crisised and yet so-called perfectionists that we have to put up with now.
Valerie 2004-02-05 ch 1,	Okay, like, can we get one thing straight? What is wrong with being shallow? I mean, like, adults are always "You're so irresponsible and shallow. wake up and grow up and blah blah blah." There are worse things than a little shallowness in the world, like, you know, mass murder? Genocide? Mythical weapons of mass destruction that are plaguing my life with essays after essays on the current state of world affairs? Yes, relegating a war to the status of, like, a continous and bothersome homework assignment was undoubtedly shallow. So? That doesn't, you know, make it any less true? I mean, I'm shallow! I admit it! Ask for the shallow one and I'll hop up and down waving my arm and shouting "me!" Again, I say so? Lots of adults are, like, disgusted by the shallowness! What's wrong with it? I've never hurt anyone. I don't, you know, cheat, lie, steal, or kill anyone else. You know, I didn't make this world we live in, I just, like, live in it - adults are the ones who make it. Adults can fix it. It's not like I have any power over it anyway. It's not like I can do anything. Start a club, start an organization, send some letters- what happens? No one joins a club, the organizations already exist (fractured by infighting I might add) and the letters are returned unopened or thrown to the trash can with nary a glance. There isn't a point. Maybe when I'm older, I'll be more, like, "involved" Maybe when I'm older I'll be less shallow. But I've got school and friends and work and family, you know?. I've got my own sorrows and joys and a gym class from hell and a bratty little sister who, like, loves to makes my life miserable. I've got problems. Shallow doesn't mean they aren't problems, and the attitude that, like, just because I'm not blowing people up (or being blown up) my problems don't matter is an attitude that really ticks me off! But try telling that to an adult. Bah. There's like, nothing wrong with being shallow. And maybe if everyone thought about shallow stuff like wanting all their friends to be happy and no one to be mad at them they wouldn't be having these problems of war and dictatorship and theft and what-have-you. hmph. No hope for it. They're idiots. Even shallow old me can see that.
Alexis Cyanide 2004-02-05 ch 1,	What I want to know is why no one gives a damn. I mean, , it's not like every other group doesn't have people who care. But no, I'm a teenager so I'm obviously EVIL. I'm a teenager so everything's my fault. I'm a teenager so I have to be invovlved with tolietpapering the neighbor's house. I obviously drive to fast, litter, smoke, drink, stay out late, experiment with drugs, and hurt my loving, caring, kind, patient, long-suffering family! . It's not my fault my family is falling apart. Maybe mom should't nag at Dad and should stop grabbing the booze each night. Maybe Dad should stop seeing slinky blonds in red dresses each saturday night. Maybe they and the conselour and the police and the school and the state shoud all off and leave me alone. But no, It's obviously my fault. After all, it's my name they're screaming half the time, when they're too busy screaming at each other and forget to pick me up from school. You're right, Ender. They don't understand. They don't want to understand. What the hell, who needs em? We'll be okay. I can tell from your writing that you're going to be one of those responsible when you grow up. Go off to college, get a fine upstanding job, just do one thing for me, okay? Don't act like them. Grow up, get a job, be an adult, but don't act like most adults do. Don't make the assumptions they make. Don't treat teens like most of them treat teens. Don't. Just... don't. Please?
Camaris 2004-01-24 ch 1,	Very, very true. Most adults forget what's it like being. The age bracket between 13 and 21 could definitely be a very rogh experience. We are met with the worlds problems for the first time, wondering about our purpose/place in life.
Flotom 2004-01-22 ch 1,	This was very true. I also think that most adults probably behave like teenagers most of the time, but as they don't have our stereotype they get away with it, alas.

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