Students should take the hint.
As students, we get used to being looked down on, and since the protests in London, it’s been worse, but there’s been a certain prejudice all along.
When we’re not out spending our overly large student loans on iPods and salmon sandwiches, we’re busy attacking riot vans. Or worse, we’re sitting on our arses being apathetic.
It’s safe to say we get a bad press. But, just maybe, do we deserve it? What if we’re not actually as good to people as we think we are?
The youth of every era has been seen as unruly: the rise of the “teenager” in the fifties, the rivalry between mods and rockers, and the emergence of punk. Be that as it may, once-common manners have now, unfortunately, become a thing of the past.
Pushing around young girls a foot shorter than you at a gig is fine, because it’s all about the music, right? Besides, the beer made you invincible!
And it’s now sadly rare that seats are given up for the elderly on a bus.
With everyone stuck in their bubbles, maybe I’m asking too much?
Should I be thankful they’re sharing their music with me by playing it loud enough through headphones to compete with a jumbo jet?
It comes down to this: how would you feel if it was your little sister, or your grandma who had been hurt by other people’s inconsideration? It’s not about chivalry, anymore. It’s about being a considerate human being.
this is the worst article i have ever read in my entire life, ever.
[...] Shortened version published in Forge Press, 18/3/2011 [...]
I really notice this a lot more these days. Even when I’m drunk I’ll say “excuse me” or “sorry” to get past one. At our very own union nights I have been pushed past numerous times by girls on heels they can’t handle or burlier LAD’s