While reading, so much was coming to my
mind because there was so much information that was being read but “A Tangle of
discourses: Girl Negotiating Adolescence”
by Raby , kept bring me back to guiding assumptions that was addressed the
first few day of class. In particular I thought about the category “Teenagers
are not some alien life form”. There is a section in this piece on page 440 that talks about teens
being stereotyped as being moody, emotional or going through a phase. She
actually asks one of the girls (Jess) that she interviews what she thinks of
that stereotype and the girl actually agreed with that statement. In all
actuality I can say that being moody does not depend on you being a teenager it
depends on what kind of personality you have in general and also what kind of
things you are going through. I am 24 years old and I find myself moody all the
time. I passed that stage of being a teenager a very long time ago so what will
that make me? She talks about being in a bad mood like that's a mood that only
teens go through, in don't think that a person would ever grow out of being
moody or being in a bad mood. Some might experience these emotions more
than others a but it's always there. I will say when I was teen I was
never moody, I was always in a a good mood (well unless someone pissed me
off ). I can say that now I have more emotions running through me than ever
before and that I believe is because I’m going through a lot personally.
Everyone has this preconceived notion that teens are the worst thing ever, forgetting
that they was once a teen before, and that they are still that same person that
they were when they were a teen, we all just transformed into a more mature teen
if you ask me. I truly believe that media has a great deal to do with this stereotype
as well which takes me back to the “Unlearning the myths that Bind Us” piece. We all know
that media is one of the main reason why we do what we do and believe what we
believe. Unless we make a change a huge part of the world will continue to
flow with the dominate ideologies, but now that I think about it, is it realistically
possible? And if it is where do we start?
I agree with your statement about some people are still teens just in a mature way. Many people grow but still don't have an identity and they still make mistakes so why criticize teenagers when adults are living the same lifestyle as these teenagers. Teenagers are our future so why not help and guide them inside of bringing them down
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