• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Maybe I’m just an old curmudgeon, but I can’t feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to try this.

    I have kids, and I’m confident that if I asked my 10 year old about this, even she’d know that it’s a terrible idea.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’d hope so too, but I worry that even the smartest kids could fall for something that perfectly targets the specific thing they’re really insecure about.

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          Wow, this brought back a weird memory.

          There was a very old internet ‘trend’ that had folks basically stretching and helicoptering their dicks on a regime with the idea that over time, it would make them bigger.

          Basically dicksmashing.

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        I’d worry about things they don’t understand. If there was a “bleach and ammonia” challenge, I’d be concerned.

        I don’t think many kids know what happens when you mix those, and some would die figuring it out.

        It’s going to be much more difficult to find a kid that doesn’t know that a hammer to the face is a bad idea.

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      It’s not the 10 year Olds that are doing it, it’s the disaffected, terminally online 20-somethings who have grown up in a hyperficial world with very little opportunity to form real, natural relationships. Ask your daughter in ten years if she’d do something harmful for the chance of increasing her attractiveness.

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      You have no idea what constant peer pressure, gas lighting, and unobtainable beauty standards can do to a young person. I do hope your kid will be able to resist that, but chances are once she is a teenager the situation might be different.

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        You have no idea

        Chances are he’s old enough to have been young and knows all about this. At least I do and I was not that dumb. And if you reply that it’s worse nowadays, let me teach you about what happened since the 60s…

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          If you’d elaborate on what you are alluding to in the last sentence, I’d be happy to read it because I have no clue what you are referring to. You mean this kind of stuff was worse in the 60s? Sorry, English isn’t my first language and your sentence makes no sense to me.

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        No idea? I was a socially awkward fat kid. I have an idea.

        I can see getting weird piercings and regrettable tattoos, growing a mullet or wearing your pants around your knees to fit in. I understand hiding your true self to blend in, or even bullying others to climb the social ladder.

        As kids, we did some dumb dangerous things, kids always will, but hitting yourself in the face with a hammer with the intention of breaking your own jaw? If you’re dumb enough to think that’s a good idea and try it, then maybe it’s a lesson you need to learn.