Social media/female aggression/mobs

[Syne]

Great interview between Peterson and Haidt.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sLnjINRUfq0

"Boys and girls are equally aggressive. But the boys' aggression is more physical; the girls' is more relational. ...Everyone has one [iPhone] in their pocket. What are boys going to do? They're going to play video games, and that doesn't hurt anybody. But the girls are going to use it to amplify the social interaction."

[Magical Realist]

So his thesis is that girls are more victims of Facebook than boys are. Why did you cherrypick out of context the one statement that makes girls sound like bullies? Do you hate girls or something?

[Syne]

Seemed to be relevant to other discussions we've had here. https://www.scivillage.com/thread-4420.html

You know, aside from the fact that girls are more victims of Facebook...by other girls.

[Magical Realist]

Seemed to be relevant to other discussions we've had here. https://www.scivillage.com/thread-4420.html

You know, aside from the fact that girls are more victims of Facebook...by other girls.

9 out of 10 murders are committed by males. So what?

[Syne]

So...two wrongs make a right? Just because males murder more, we shouldn't be concerned that girls on social media may be contributing to teen suicides?

Both are awful, and deserving of attention...unless your just insensitive to risks to teen girls. One just doesn't show any relevance to social media...the topic of this thread.

"An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August found the suicide rate among teenage girls ages 15 to 19 hit a 40-year high in 2015. Between 2007 and 2015, the rates doubled among girls..." - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/soc...te-n812426

[Magical Realist]

So...two wrongs make a right? Just because males murder more, we shouldn't be concerned that girls on social media may be contributing to teen suicides?

It's stupid to demonize a whole gender just because there are very specific contexts where they dominate in abusive behavior. That was the point. If you're going to hate on young girls now for bullying on social media, why not hate on males for murder too? There is no logic behind such ad hoc generalizations.

[Syne]

Who demonized anyone? I clearly acknowledged both the victims and the offenders.
Read the name of this topic again. People other than you tend to stay on-topic, especially in ones they start.

[Magical Realist]

Who demonized anyone? I clearly acknowledged both the victims and the offenders.
Read the name of this topic again. People other than you tend to stay on-topic, especially in ones they start.

You're the one digging dirt up on young females now. There's always a hate agenda behind all your posts. Attempts to villify blacks and gays and women and liberals and atheists and the disabled and the mentally ill in some feeble effort to make you feel superior. Why do you need to do that all the time? What is with you that you need this sort of constant self-validation by putting other human beings down?

[Syne]

"Digging up dirt"? I posted a video of a conversation between two academics I respect.

Is there even any context in which you would have viewed me posting that video as anything other than you describe? Not likely, because it makes factual points you do not like to hear.
There's no hate in facts, but your insensitivity to real risks to teen girls does seem to indicate a callous apathy. Much like your avoidance of the harm Democrat policies have on blacks, the mental health needs of gays, etc.. And the only disabled I vilify is you.

Facts are not insults or put-downs. But those suffering from an inferiority complex can rarely tell the difference. They think we should all avoid uncomfortable facts for fear of hurting the feelings of others as overly-sensitive as themselves. But how does it harm bullying girls to acknowledge that fact? And how would it help bullied girls to ignore it?

And since we all know all this whining is really all about you, how does it help gays to ignore their mental health needs? And how does it harm them to admit that they have such needs? Shouldn't we try to destigmatize the help people need, instead of erect barriers to that help? O_o

[Magical Realist]

Facts are not insults or put-downs.

It's not facts that are the problem. It's what you generalize from them and how you use them as excuses to blame and hate and demonize classes of people that are different from you. That's the problem. If you can't see it then there's nothing more to say. Enjoy your self-stoked resentment as it eats you up inside leaving you a hollow shell of what you could have been.