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His confusion at the younger generation seems mostly due to his trying to piece together the reality from lingo, pop culture and conversations overheard. E.g.
by roc 17y ago
His confusion at the younger generation seems mostly due to his trying to piece together the reality from lingo, pop culture and conversations overheard.
E.g. sexting is no more a substitute for physical interaction than the phone was/is. it's still all about contextualizing and coordinating actual physical interaction.
"go places in a group of friends" is more a precursor to a traditional date. It's the meet-and-greet stage, without being explicitly paired off to lower the pressure and expectation. It's also (in large part) a side effect of suburbanization. When you need a ride from a parent to get anywhere, it's a lot simpler and more discrete to say "group of friends" than "this girl I want to get to know". The goal of most kids in any such group is still to ditch the friends.
At least, in my day it was. Which wasn't all that long ago, but technology makes social behavior a fast-moving target.
- Locke1689 17y agoI'm not really sure this is Hacker News, but I'm gonna respond anyway. He also confuses a lot of terms. This is definitely someone from the outside looking in. Sexting, for example, is something only done by high school students. It is a "hey, I'm sitting around with no top on, why don't you run the 2 miles to my house and I'll sneak you in the back door so we can fuck." "Hooking up" is nothing like he believes. People in relationships don't hook up. Hooking up is when you go to a party with a bunch of people, find someone who you dance with for a little while, make out, then head back to $place and sexile $roommate. I don't even want to get into Greek life.
- powauth 17y agoEh, it depends on who you hang around and how you've grown up - what you stated is just one specific example. The somewhat ambiguous way he described it "The term is widely in use, and refers to the exchange of physical pleasure, not necessarily intercourse, between two people who may not be going together or in fact may not have been introduced and indeed may not be strictly sober." describes it pretty well. (well I'd favor dropping the 'may' in 'who may not be going together')
- roc 17y agoI agree in general, but: > Sexting, for example, is something only done by high school students. I think you're incredibly off the mark on that specific. Sexting is just multimedia phone-sex. In my experience, pretty much everyone who's sexually active, reasonably sexually liberated (even if only in private) and has access to the technology does it.