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079: Youth Bashing - A Generation Ago and Beyond
School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation
English - February 14, 2011 23:55 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 331 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education homeschooling unschooling school alternatives self-directed learning critical thinking media literacy indoctrination Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Back when I was a teenager, in the mid-1990s, a myriad of politicians, reporters, experts and officials all shared a serious concern over a growing problem: me
“Today’s media portrayals of teens employ the same stereotypes once openly applied to unpopular racial and ethnic groups: violent, reckless, hypersexed, welfare-draining, obnoxious, ignorant. And like traditional stereotypes, the modern media teenager is a distorted image, derived from the dire fictions promoted by official agencies and interest groups.” -Mike Males, Bashing Youth (1994)
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