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TheProdigalBootycall t1_ja525dn wrote

I’ll be the lone dissenting voice here. If we want kids to get in less trouble out there this summer, we shouldn’t remove items from the very short list of things they have to do. The sun is still up at 7:30 for Christ’s sake.

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OrtizDupri t1_ja5p92z wrote

I’m totally down with them having selected theaters or whatever that are “teens only” to give them a space to hang out and watch a movie

It’s a little harder to have empathy when 40 kids show up during a movie and proceed to yell across a theater to each other the whole time

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jennbo t1_ja5dnu8 wrote

Yeah, I agree. Y’all haven’t lived in small small towns where kids have nothing to do so they end up in even worse situations than “going to the movies.”

I also don’t like the wholesale removal of certain age groups from general population areas. There’s something a bit dehumanizing about it that rubs me the wrong way. I definitely think that people are entitled to adult-only spaces in certain circumstances, but in general I think a big part of being a human is being in communal experiences and dealing with behavior some of us might find frustrating and figuring out how to most effectively deal with it. I have asked, politely, for kids and teens to stop xyz.

But yeah, 15-16 year olds seeing movies at 8:00 is harmless. There’s still Regal, but Bowtie is the theater most easily accessible by public transportation so it’s gonna be the most difficult for kids and families who live around there. Who aren’t always the wealthiest.

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