The State Attorney General has a burning desire to address the negative effects of social media on young people. The Governor signed an executive order. The State Dept of Ed is expected to create a new curriculum to address it. But nothing about puberty blockers.
His office began investigating the link between social media use and physical and mental health harms in 2021. Three months ago, Formella joined 46 other attorneys general in an investigation of negative experiences associated with using TikTok.
Gov. Chris Sununu has joined the effort too. He signed an executive order in June requiring state agencies to help students and parents better understand and protect themselves from the harmful effects of social media use.
He gave the departments of Education and Health and Human Services until September to create guidelines for K-12 curriculum about social media’s effect on health.
Planned Parenthood is padding its pockets by operating as a proxy mental health clinic for the gender mills. Public schools are exposing children to sexually mature material. So-called educators are deliberately confusing kids about their sexuality long before their brains or bodies are even ready to have the discussion. Puberty blockers, dangerous drugs with serious side effects, including death, are pushed to prevent suicide in kids who have been confused (making them exponentially more likely to kill themselves). Dartmouth-Hitchcock is mutilating and sterilizing children for profit.
And Governor Groomer’s priority is to ignore that public health threat and take a serious look at social media.
Social media is a problem. It’s a bigger problem than we know, and I’m not saying it doesn’t deserve some attention.
It seems that having relentless visibility into the lives of others has the alarming effect of compromising the mental health of many adolescent females. It calls to mind the possibility that social media is a 21st century corollary to Tolkien’s palantir, at least to this extent: adolescents who look into the social media orb have an alarming probability of being harmed by doing so. …
What is striking about Haidt’s analysis is the extent to which these young women’s mental health is damaged for reasons unrelated to whether the actual circumstances of their lives have really changed. It is apparently the mere act of marinating in the comparative knowledge of the lives of others that elevates levels of depression and self-loathing.
Women live to overthink things, and that has benefits and pitfalls. Young women tend to embrace the latter until they’ve achieved some level of maturity (or is it wisdom). Social media is, to put it bluntly, bad for them. It is not much better for boys. The government’s response to this has been to use it as an excuse to expose them to things that further confuse them sexually and psychologically and then translate the resulting depression into the opportunity to sterilize them with drugs (puberty blockers) or to mutilate them (sexual reassignment surgery).
The hospitals are happy for the added billing opportunities, and the political left feels comfortable packaging the damaged goods as a victim class (they created) for whom they pretend to advocate.
I doubt Governor Groom or his AG are planning to explore those unpleasant truths in their examination of social media’s impact on the physical and mental health of the kiddies.
I can save you all time, money, and even some lives and remind you that we don’t let kids drive, use drugs, or drink alcohol for a reason. They are even prohibited from viewing movies and TV content without an adult’s consent. Their brains are not likely ready, and social media has proven to be in the same category.
Keeping them away from it can’t be more difficult than the Feds using Big Tech to violate millions of Americans’ First Amendment rights or any of that COVID-Policy crap under which it trapped us with much enthusiasm.
Social media, while bad for kids’ self-esteem, is not nearly as big a threat to them as the government. The public-school transgender agenda is proof enough of that. And you want to be their “parents”? Find a way to ban them from the self-esteem-murdering influence of social media until they are old enough to drink.
Absent that, perhaps messing with their mental health by confusing them about what body they are in will have to do.
