“When I get these messages, it’s the same as when you’re walking down the street and a car beeps at you and you hear men yelling out the window,”
It happens way to often that some people may even say common. Most men think that declining to give someone your number is no big deal, but some men's pride can take turn for the worst.
Speegle has never censored her Instagram posts to avoid malicious DMs, but Sigurdardottir often thinks twice before uploading certain photos. “I don’t always feel comfortable putting out what I want to put out, just because I know which comments will be put on my posts and which DMs I might receive,” she says.
Society and Media have a tug and pull relationship. On Instagram, you cant escape men and women showing off their skin. Socially women are frowned upon for participating, so they post online where the "target audience" is, but there's always the need for caution.
For Speegle, the harassment has bled from Instagram into the real world.
There's an ongoing argument about women "asking" to be sexualized based on the cloths she doesn't wear. We all know the phrase 'leave something for the imagination'. I've heard a counter argument that says this statement oversexualizes women as if they were to cover up, men would actually now have to fantasize about what's under them. None the less there's no excuse.
“This man has, for over four years now, created probably 20 new accounts and sent me the same thing over and over again,” she explains. “So the very first one I’ve ever gotten, I get probably every other month. I’ve gotten it every other month for four years now.”
Oversharing on social media is very dangerous. Obsessive people turn into stalkers and today women have to the more careful than they've ever been. On the lighter-side of media, due to these different assaults, Self-Defense Keychains are a thing.
Some come from profiles she’s never seen before.
With the amount of pull technology and society have through media, the easiest thing to do is send crappy things anonymously "hiding behind a computer screen".
Even as childhood in America seems to become more and more circumscribed in the name of safety — as schools limit recess activities and remove threatening playground equipment
For social development, parents today may be doing more harm than good by acting as a crutch to their children, especially at an impressionable ages. Within and even more outside of sports, mass media can be overwhelming for all ages. Although physical activity and sports are interconnected with our spheres, it's important to not completely blend the two.
“And even when I’m feeling down or not skating too well, if I start skating with my friends, I can get pumped up that way.” At the end of his workout, I saw Jett finally land a trick he struggled with for weeks, the “backside 180 nose grind”
Conflict theorists believe that there are shifts in the systems that develop unequal opportunities and limited resources to individuals, that in this case are adolescents. With one of the Six Major Spheres of Life being families, support, wether mental or emotional can go a long way.
As a young child, Jett wanted to do motocross. His father discouraged that and steered him toward skateboarding, which Jett took up at 7.
Although parents do there best to keep their children safe, it's good to see that his father had an alternative extracirricular. Also to reach the level of expertise in any sport, let alone extreme sports can take approximatately 10 years, so maybe starting young isn't the worse.