I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

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169. The parents my age are much more aware of it

Older Millennial. Came up through AOL chatrooms and message boards, and then straight into all the rest.

We are more acutely aware of what social media are and all the little associated platforms, what goes on there, all the little nooks and crannies like Discord, Snapchat, and all the rest. I'm in all the gaming spaces where young men and boys are talking outside of parents' supervision.

We've had conversations about all of this. In my niece's case, her mother is around my age and knew exactly what was going down. As soon as it became a problem, that was that. My 30 and 40 something year old friends with kids are frequently paranoid about letting them run around with the stuff. I increasingly see, "You can take a flip phone to school, but not your smart phone."

Of course there are always bad parents who throw their kid in front of a tablet, but there is a sense my generation on down is side-eyeing it at an increasing rate as the mental health costs become more screamingly apparent.