• LeadersAtWork@lemmy.worldB
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    5 months ago

    Oh no I didn’t mean any sort of shaming. Only that this digital world creates new stressors and puzzles for both parent and child. A kid just hitting 15 has essentially grown up in a world where digital and anime characters influenced them. Many kids may attach some emotional prerequisite to those characters and unintentionally judge others based on that perspective. Moreover, hanging out in person after The Lost Years (Covid) is almost secondary to the ease of things like Snapchat and other obligations such as school bring.

    I don’t envy any parent trying to work through this.

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      5 months ago

      I guess, but I know a lot of kids in the 80s who considered this character a big part of their sexual awakening…

      (I think it was the leg warmers)

      Also, this character for slightly younger kids:

      (Damn, just doing an image search for her brings up some weird shit.)