what happened here?

what in the world happened to kids these days?
men- well, hardly men seeing as they're still in high school, but sweet jesus.
there's a limit to immaturity, you know?

im not expecting a teenage boy
to open a door for me on the rare occasion,
but is it really so much to ask for them to
not stare like starved dogs at a steak
when a girl walks by?
or maybe to just pretend they're not?
it's one thing if she wants you to look,
it's another if you're raping a girl you don't even know
visually.

its irritating that kids this age just don't get it.
i'm not saying girls are much better,
wearing scraps of clothing that hardly cover any of the important bits
[not that we all don't from time to time haha].
sometimes i wonder if we encourage this though.
that "boys will be boys" thing is complete bs,
i've seen plenty of guys in their 20s-30's who still
cant read a girl for their lives, but where do your parents come into this?
can this really all be blamed on the media and society?
of course not. family life isn't the same anymore.
with parents constantly at work or just too busy for their kids
it must be tough instilling virtues and morals.

its just a matter of politeness. people don't
teach their kids the difference between right and wrong
or show them how to treat a lady. hell,
girls don't even know how to act like a lady, much less
give others incentive to treat them like one.
that's all very general of course,
complete with a granny waving her cane at those hoodlums
to get off her lawn.

people dont think about the same things.
whatever happened to thinking about consequences and life and
the things that matter? sometimes i wonder if
people go on only thinking about the here and now
where will we be after?

i know plenty of kids who push themselves in school
and are striving to become people with a future.
i also know kids who just dont give a damn,
and i think it's kinda sad.
when did it become okay to just
accept mediocrity?
the absolute minimum?

when did it become okay to just
run to a psychiatrist when you have a problem
instead of working it out? disease after disease
used as an excuse to shove your children's issues
onto someone else.
anger issues? depression? jesus, you know there's a problem
when 10 year olds start
having issues like that.

of course, there are always the exceptions.
maybe they do have a problem, maybe they do have a reason
but ... it's sad that i even have to worry
about the state of the nation
when we take over.