I'm sure there are those who think that this is perfectly normal and healthy. I'm sure there are also those who find this disgusting and appalling. I think that these adolescents are merely experiencing the kind of charmingly-narcissistic curiosity that adolescents have always experienced. I just wonder why one of the supposedly-best high schools in NYC tolerates tons of public displays of that curiosity, as though its brightest students can't be taught, or expected, to control their hands and tongues during the school day.
I also wonder how these kids are going to do later on when the world/their professors/their bosses are both unimpressed by and uninterested in their blabbing to complete strangers about their sexuality, and inform them that no matter how stressful the day gets, they don't get to hold a "cuddle puddle" in the break room. Charming narcissism gets tiring after a while.
Posted by kswygert at February 2, 2006 07:29 PM