The New York Times discovers cutting yourself only twenty years after my high school classmates. Stand by for this weekend's special report: Sometimes, Teenagers Drive Out into the Woods and Drink Too Much Beer.
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To some people, if the Times has not recognized a phenomenon, the phenomenon does not exist.
really! it would be like writing about other health problems more than once! stoopid nyt!
On the other side of the pond, the BBC discovers that "Europeans get drunk 'to have sex.' "
Too bad the treatment section doesn't include the strategy from "Secretary."
Quote from the article:
"Celebrities, too, have contributed to its higher profile. Among those who have confessed to being self-injurers are the late Princess Diana, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Richie, Richie Edwards, Courtney Love and the lead singer on the Garbage band album 'Bleed Like Me'."
Well, that pretty well covers the entire spectrum of human interest.
I though Jolie got over that phase, though.
Evidently Shirley Manson doesn't have a name?
Wasn't there a media-fad of concern over cutting/self-injury just a few years ago? Are their memories that short?
You can't expect me to believe teenagers drink. The drinking age is 21 nationwide. The government solved that problem. It's the law.
Do you not realize how flippant you sound when you write crap like this? I mnean, are you honestly that callous or just cultivating a persona?
"Wasn't there a media-fad of concern over cutting/self-injury just a few years ago?"
I think it used to be considered a teen-age girl thing. I read a story about it (in the NY Times). They discussed a tall teenage girl named McArdle who cut herself - Jill McArdle, from Chicago.
Toasted, read it again, mockery directed at the NYT, not the cutters. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Five years after the movie "Secretary". Forty-three years after the harrowing book "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden".
It's part of a cunning strategy to reduce teenage mutilation by making it unhip. Anything reported upon in the NYT or Time Magazine is by definition So Over. Ergo the hipsters will move on to something else. Nun-beating, probably.
Do you not realize how flippant you sound when you write crap like this? I mnean, are you honestly that callous or just cultivating a persona?
Nutella, how long has it been since you had an eye exam and a bowel movement? You seem to be about two years overdue for one of each.
Hmmm, comparing cutting to drinking in the woods isn't flippant, at all, dave. Nor is thinking the comparison is somehow funny.
Further, there's nothing foolish or shallow in treating the NYT having a story on a topic as proof the paper had never covered it previously.
Apparently you weren't a cutter.
Kids who cut are doing so for the same reasons that kids drink, take drugs, have various risky versions of sex, drive too fast, and otherwise engage in dangerous or antisocial behavior. It's not rocket science.
The NYT story is breathless. That's part of the problem. You don't stop dangerous, self harming behavior by acting breathless about it. You face the truth, confront the reasons behind those truths, and then maybe you'd get somewhere.
Kids who cut are doing so for the same reasons that kids drink, take drugs, have various risky versions of sex, drive too fast, and otherwise engage in dangerous or antisocial behavior.
Because it's fun????
Clearly going to an all boys catholic school had some advantages. I never even HEARD of anyone cutting themselves voluntarily until I left university.
(Cutting yourself by accident is a completely different thing, and something I haven't done for over a month.)