Wishing a very barbara-pit on the entire “troubled teens” industry

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    While I never went to one of these camps, I did spend the entirety of high school at an English style all boys boarding school on a scholarship, with the uniforms, strict rules, boarding houses and day houses, gender segregation, initiation rituals and all. The kind of school that people like British politicians and Elon Musk attended. Trust me, it’s not like Harry Potter. Okay maybe it was a little bit like that, but you get the point.

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        It’s easy to agree in principle, but various traditions as well as the logic of the system of capitalism weigh extremely heavily on us, so intergenerational abuse like this keeps surviving if left alone.

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        Not even going to talk about the “culture” and “socialisation” around woman teachers at these boys only boarding schools. Honestly half of those teachers need a visit from libertarian-alert. That is all I will say for now.