Teenagers deserve respect too
Teenagers: what connotations do they have? Violent, aggressive yobs who intimidate and attack innocent people, and have no respect for anyone. It seems that all young people are now believed to fit into this stereotype, and it infuriates me.
Not all teenagers are the same. Im 14 years old, and I dont hang around the streets at night drinking and swearing. I dont cause trouble, and I have never been in trouble with the police. I respect the people around me.
However, I am still seen to be a yob. If I meet up with some friends and we walk to the local shopping centre, we are immediately seen as a gang of thugs and people on the streets give us dirty looks and avoid us. If I go shopping, I am constantly aware of the security guard breathing down my neck, because as I am a teenager, that must mean I am automatically a shoplifter.
I am fed up of hearing the same old thing; that we should have more respect. But as a teenager, I am finding it more and more common to be disrespected by the very people who are making these comments.
Respect our elders? The very elders who glare at us in the streets, making comments and labelling us as yobs when we have done nothing wrong?
So please dont shove us all into the same category; we are not all gangs of idiotic hooligans; most of us also think they are an embarrassment to society.
By: Sarah
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Go on then, I'm waiting with bated breath for your contribution - anonomous! See if you can spell some of the words correctly and use some punctuation, otherwise ask a grown-up to help you, if you know one who is even semi-literate.
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Windsor Patel - 22-Jan-12 21:14 "
You are quite entitled to express such a view, but perhaps you could explain why, maybe without using abusive language?
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Windsor Patel - 22-Jan-12 21:14
I know, it's all a bit chaotic. If was still working for myself at home all this would have been done months ago!
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Kenny when do we get protected user names to stop this nonsense?
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Man U R siht - 20-Jun-11 22:17
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" I am also very glad Challenge TV have started to show Blockbusters and 3 2 1 again, already this weekend I have knocked one out over Ted Rogers and Bob Holness.
BTW I am a snob who tells many many lies.
* MikeP 19-Jun-2011 23:14 - Teenagers deserve respect too "
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Have repeated the same comment 18 June at 1041 and 19 June 1139. However many times you say it, I disagree with you.
As for keeping my comments to myself, why should I? I have precisely the same right to express myself as you or anyone else, just because you don't agree done not mean you can deny others the right of expression.
Finally, I did not post this comment : "Oh children do behave yourselves or ill come round and bum you!". Once again we have babies on here who can't post using their own names.
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When did you last get on a bus to find a noisy group of old men with their filthy shoes up on the seats?
Most thuggish pavement cyclists are older boys or young men.
How often do you see elderly women spit on the pavement?
How many people have been knifed by the elderly?
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devil's advocate - 19-Jun-11 19:27
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yes by all means tell the bad off but show respect to some of us because some of us deserve respect and we never get because of all u f&*^in r&*^rds
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