'You Suck' and the Controversy Surrounding It
A 32 year old Single Girl’s perspective on Abigail Breslin’s You Suck and the controversy surrounding it. I say “controversy”. First-world teenagers are upset. When teenagers get upset about something their entire world is thrown into absolute turmoil. It’s so easy to be harsh and overly critical of this, but honestly their world is small. That sounds harsh. I mean their world is small – but it should be. They are at the stage between being children and being adults and it’s a hard stage. It’s hard to balance the shifting levels of dependence and responsibility. There is a lot of growing and learning required before you can approach the wider world with adult sensibilities – and that is supposing that these teens are surrounded by sensible people who are giving them tools to become functional adults, which is supposing a lot. At the same time teenagers think that they have already achieved levels of maturity which they... well, they haven’t. But they won’t realise this until t...
