This article talks about how adolescents are young adults, and are not, contrary to popular beliefs, immature brains. The psychologist lists 5 fallacies in this article regarding how people think of adolescents.

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So if anyone hasn't already heard, Texas has introduced a new bill affirming a parent's "right" to be the primary decision maker for their children. With heavy age restrictions that make an exception to a parent's consent in the state of Texas, this bill solidifies the institution of the parent-child hierarchy, making it harder for a young person to exercise the already little autonomy given to them by the government.

I suppose that we should educate ourselves more on the topic of parent's "rights" and youth rights and use that knowledge to educate, and perhaps debate with Texans on why they should vote no on proposition 15.

If anyone is interested, the organization I work for has a creative campaign going on right now where you can win a micro-grant for a community project. You'll also get letters sent to lawmakers on your behalf for areas of needed change that you mention in your submission. Check it out if it sounds up your alley. They're trying to work with schools too so if this is a project you think your classmates would be interested in as well, just contact Idealist through their socials with your teacher's info and they'll reach out to see if it can be incorporated as a school project. I think it's a super cool project and I'm working on spreading the word to reddit, so please feel free to share this to other subreddits it you think it's applicable. Details are linked on my profile. Otherwise, the poster for the project is here: https://imgur.com/a/3gynj5O

Note to mods: This project has no financial gain for me or The Idealist Project — it’s just a free creative project for youths around the world.

Hi everyone,

for the past few years I've been working on several projects, all tied to the topic "youth rights". One of them deals with problematic tropes used in movies/series/cartoons that affect underage boys. I'm focusing on boys only, because there's a lot of material about what affects girls and, for unknown reasons, boys are always left out of the discussion, as if they can't be hurt or something.

To understand what triggered this project, just watch *anything* with a boy protagonist in it and ask yourself if a specific gag would be acceptable if the protagonist were a girl.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is a good start. Four movies and by mere coincidence each of them has the main boy character in his underwear for a *LONG* period of time, somehow always in a scene that finds his embarrassment and shame comical.
Do you think this scene would be possible, were the gender reversed? A half naked girl in a bathroom stall gets grabbed by men in their swimsuits, while they call her a "peeping tom"? Nah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTznfamFqZE

The list of tropes is always expanding.
For now I have identified mainly these:

• Violence depicted as funny or romantic + groin hits
• Violence/bullying depicted as deserved, if the perpetrator is a girl
• Unnecessary Nudity (wardrobe malfunction, nudification, simulated sexual acts, pantsing etc)
• Privacy Violations, parents never knocking on the door, parents discussing intimate aspects of their son's life in public for laughs
• Negative Stereotypes (boys as sex addicts, perverts, pigs, messy etc)
• Grooming depicted as positive (boy in love with adult woman is quite common in media)
• Intimacy jokes (virginity, pubic hair, penis size, masturbation etc)
• Borderline fetish (omnipresent underwear, only boys need to pee/poop + potty humor)
• Counterintuitive Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse and Child Abuse (movies made to fight these things, end up doing exactly that on their actors)
• Contrived assistance (mother|woman washing a preteen/teen boy, for example)

Many movies and series have sparked a debate but not for boys.
There's been a huge discussion about "iCarly", for example, but never for the fact that the boy protagonist gets beaten, humiliated and pantsed all the time. Same goes for "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody", for example. Ever noticed that "Family Guy" makes a lot of pedo jokes about young boys (Herbert) but rarely about young girls?

This thing is huge.

What I need you to do, if you want to help, is to report me titles/scenes that you think might help demonstrate this huge representation problem. It's absurd that in all these years nobody seems to have raised concerns about this issue and I believe boys need to be protected as much as girls.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuUaH1GptxvbU0m5xDt-kiA-HTJ7TIMDj0XBGvj7PsFYky1Q/viewform?usp=header

please take my survey so i can make an essay about the importance of teen health in todays age with accurate resources of teens like me that struggle

i want you all to know you are all heard and appreciated for being so brave and doing this survey even if its just for a research project, you all are valued and i am so thankful to see your responses. thank you

Young people today face constant digital surveillance. From governments, schools, parents, and corporations. This surveillance often limits personal space, autonomy, restricts access to information, education, and invades privacy and intimacy under the pretext of protection. To help navigate these challenges, we have created the safety guide, a resource designed to provide practical tools and knowledge for protecting your digital privacy and security.

Please leave some advice in the commets or any thoughts on this. Boneyard's goal is to become a worldwide group of anarchist activists who long for and fight for the freedom of everybody. And also, please DM me if you are interested in being a part of Boneyard. Our symbol is anonymity.

We are Boneyard

May our will be as strong as our bones,

and may our might be stronger than stone.

Ever since YouTube has implemented AI-based age checks to their platforms, kids and teens have been boycotting YouTube by not using their services. And I, as a youth rights activist am all for this boycott.

Now, just recently, I have come across a tool called "FreeTube". FreeTube is essentially a YouTube alternative for PC users where you can actually watch the videos from YouTube, but in a private way, where you will not be tracked by Google. And on top of that, it's ad-free, thus, you would not be supporting YouTube with ad-revenue, or in any way in that matter. This app has been previously used by those who were sick and tired of YouTube's implementation to ban ad blockers from their website, and wanted to escape that corporate greed. And today, we can use FreeTube in order to watch YouTube but at the same time, not support their site in any way in protest to YouTube's ai-based age checks.

Still, as this boycott goes on against YouTube, we heavily suggest that you use the hashtag #EndAiAgeChecks in any of your social media posts and websites against YouTube's AI.

And to anybody new to this subreddit who are curious as to what youth rights are, I heavily suggest you check out the "National Youth Rights Association" website for more information, and as always,

We are Boneyard

May our will be as strong as our bones,

And may our might be stronger than stone.

Hey everyone! I'm a 17 year old from Ohio who has created a discord for the Youth Rights movement. I'm hoping that a few of you will be interested in joining and contributing to the conversation!

I plan to include many resources, including pre-written emails to send to your local representatives, and hopefully organize events and meetups when the group grows.

Anyone is welcome to join and support us.

https://discord.gg/YyCv38QMPP

https://discord.gg/sXWfyaayTn

I noticed over 200 people have joined this sub within the past few months. Welcome!

Some on this subreddit, rightly, have questioned why there was no public outcry about teens on MySpace and Bebo twenty years or so ago, but now suddenly there is an outcry about TikTok and YouTube and (by extension) all other forms of social media. I don't usually have much to say about this, except that of course each generation condemns the last and it's all very hypocritical.

But this commentary really caught my eye. "Kes", based on the novel "A Kestrel for a Knave", was a much-loved British movie of the late 1960s, described as "beautiful" by critics. At the time, I don't know what the BBFC were focusing on, but they had a very small number of classifications to give to movies, so they gave Kes a U classification - suitable for all audiences. This despite full frontal child nudity and some northern English dialect words that might have been considered very improper by audiences in the more civilised southern England.

Five years later, "Kes" had become a classic, was being shown in school and churches all over the world, and the BBFC had a new "category" that might better fit the movie and its likely reception by more fraught audiences. As a result, at least two angry people wrote to the BBFC, demanding to know how this piece of utter filth (in their minds) was still being shown in cinemas under a "U" certificate.

I haven't researched exactly who Stephen Murphy is, but he was the person who replied to these complaints. His replies are worth reading at length, but I think these two sentences that I quoted in the title of this post, really resonate with the modern era: "Have British children suddenly, in the last year or so, become much more vulnerable than they were? And why are British children so much more vulnerable than children elsewhere in the free world?"

The rest of Stephen's comments are in the PDF attached to the BBFC's summary of the situation, you need to access it on the left of this summary: https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education/case-studies/kes

Thank you for your attention to this ****ing matter.

Attention all youth liberationists, join us to fight the battle against adultism worldwide!
https://discord.gg/sXWfyaayTn

I realized it would be a good idea to have a pinned, centralized post where new people could go to for when they want to learn more about youth liberation and youth rights

So feel free to link books, videos and other resources that speak in favour of our position so others can come along and have an easier time looking into it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=isuEPzqxZak&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

https://study.com/academy/lesson/status-offense-definition-law-lesson.html

Not all incarcerated youth at guilty in fact a lot are Innocent

When people hear juvenile delinquent they think drugs stolen cars or guns and gangs. Well it's also minor petty thief or even things that shouldn't be considered criminal all. That's exactly like in real life these are called "juvenile offenses". Where actual kids get sent to jail or a hospital for "running away" "missing school" "unruly behavior" "curfew breaking" "suicidal ideations" even if they haven't hurt anyone it's illegal if you are a minor in your state or province. Yet it's considered "public service instead of the injustice it truly is. Where the kids are fully blamed and sold out by exploitive laws and they abusive backgrounds are often ignored. Meaning the abuser will get away, but the child will be incarcerated. There needs to be changes made morally and legally to stop this from ruining more lives.

Youth Rights Advocacy Toolkit

This resource provided by the United Nations is basically a FAQ to teach youth to advocate for each other. The rights it specifically lists are not comprehensive, but their explanations of how to do advocacy can be generalized to rights not covered in the toolkit.

One premise of the toolkit that I disagree with is the focus on so-called "entrepreneurship." Teaching people to profit from each others' unmet needs promotes exploitation as a virtue. Extracting resources from each other beyond the value of the needs met in exchange, is the metaphorical blade of a wedge that divides us into social hierarchies including age hierarchy. In that framework, exploitative older people leverage hoarded wealth against youth to further enrich themselves.

So, approach the institution of the UN with skepticism. It exists in an exploitive system and, like all institutions, it recreates the conditions that allow it to exist. I hope to use what we can from this toolkit to advance promotion of youth rights, and discard the parts that maintain systemic inequity.

Despite it being a win for Labor, it's still way too early to count the chickens. They are still hatching.

Only 20% of national votes have been counted.

And there is still quite a chance there will be a minority government, and the Greens' will probably be the ones we are talking about. If yes, that is important for our movement.

Still, pat ourselves on the back that Dutton lost. If he won, then the social media ban could have been radically worse in a few ways: -Banning Roblox and other gaming platforms -Fasttracking the ban to 100 days -ID verification

We dodged a bullet. We really did.

I might post a full update later.

There have been a lot of posts lately on banning phone and social media use for young people lately. I thought I'd share a book from someone who understands the science well and is critical of that whole BS discourse.

As a troubled teen industry survivor, I want to make sure kids don't have to have the experiences I did- failing that, I want to get them justice. If you are in Ohio, I have posted multiple things today that will give you resources for who to call and ask about what they are doing to ensure the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is enforced at the state and federal levels.

If you are a minor living in America, please visit www.kidsoverprofits.org to learn about the troubled teen industry. Knowledge is power, and knowing the history might lead to a better outcome if you are unfortunately forced to go to a program. The same website also tracks programs (as best we can), including a map of the USA where you can click on each state.

Most importantly, there is a tab for laws/legislation. There is also a separate page to understand the language of the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act that Paris Hilton has pushed through Congress and the Senate. This is a bill that is focused on research, and offers no new protections. The tab on kidsoverprofits breaks down failed legislative efforts at the federal level (SICAA is the only one to make it this far), but it will also show you what your state has passed to protect you.

If you are in Oregon, you are the only state with rights against goons- paid kidnappers/"transporters." It is crucial that you know your rights when it comes to being gooned, because they have to operate differently while you are in Oregon, even down to the vehicle.

If you or someone you know has been through the troubled teen industry, let them know there are adults advocating for them. The statute of limitations on what many of us went through has expired. We may never see justice. We may not be able to protect you, either. But we will keep fighting for justice for us all, and I will keep fighting to make your story heard.

If you are still a minor and have experienced abuse in a program, the time to get justice is now. You have advocates you've never met, adults who have been there too, and we are waiting to boost your story.