I spent my teenage years reading Japanese romance comics. I appreciated that they were almost exclusively written by women for girls.

In this article they say that the editors took the submissions & rewrote them. That being said, I swear there was an article years ago (maybe even on Jezebel?) from a former teen magazine editor who admitted that the staff wrote these letters themselves.

I pretty much exclusively listened to Japanese pop music in high school. It wasn’t cool then, and it’s not cool now. No regrets.

Most of the teens I know only listen to music on their phones. I admittedly don’t drive with teens, but I would imagine that if they aren’t able to connect their phones to their cars, they would just listen to music through their earbuds *cringe* Many teens never take the damn things out of their ears. (source: just…

Kids & teens will consume all sorts of unappealing products

They all look like nightgowns I have.

Funny you asked...I’m at Disneyland right now (not even joking) and I’m a childless adult... heh

She had the female lead in Phantom of the Opera

This trend came along at the worst time for me! I stopped working at a daycare about two years ago, but the trend hadn’t quite started yet. We made playdough/slime all the time, but at one center I worked at the supervisor was worried about borax, so none of the slime I made was that cool. It’s nice to know there lots…

But they actually protect your eyes from the sun when they’re that size...

I’m student teaching in a school that barely has a dress code. It’s sort of nice. Though I do raise my eyebrows when I see kids wearing pot socks or whatever. And I did say something to the boy that was wearing a shirt with “big pimpin” on it the other day...turns out the whole volleyball team has them *shrug* There’s…

You linked to a piece about a private school.

Something about a boyfriend acting like an angry father is so creepy and disgusting to me. Ugh.

I’d much rather watch a show about cakewrecks http://www.cakewrecks.com/

Rich linked back to an earlier Gawker article about the movie GBF in the second paragraph of this piece. It shows a pattern of the MPAA giving R-ratings to teen movies with LGBT themes, even if the movie’s content isn’t very objectionable in and or itself. I’m not saying it’s exactly the same.

Nowadays at movie theaters they actually card young-looking people at R-rated movies.

Good link back to the film, GBF, Rich. I watched it on Netflix and it was totally cute and innocuous. It’s a fairly fluffy teen movie without much objectionable content. But because it’s about a gay teen, the MPAA gave it an “R” rating, preventing many teens from seeing it.

Keep in mind that some of the targeted viewers are actual children. Someone mentioned Youtube toy unboxing videos - elementary schoolers watch those. Tons of middle schoolers are on Instagram. Young kids & teens aren’t necessarily savvy enough to understand what content is sponsored