Why are teenagers so dumb?

[Raideh]

Cleaned.

 

[rayen020]

honestly i think it's the sudden burden of "you are no longer a child, you are an adult. so now you have to act like one." It starts when you hit puberty and the teens years are just a buffer zone so you aren't actually an adult and don't actually have the responsibilities yet.
hormones also don't help.

 

[ZeroMachine]

http://jezebel.com/5867060/awesome-17+year+old-girl-invents-nanoparticle-that-kills-cancer-cells
Yeah, real morons...
Super dumb...
I just LOVE making blanket statements.
It just makes for such scintillating, non-reductionist, debates...

Oh, hey, look, someone didn't read the OP.

To actually answer the OP's question, it's, quite simply, because they're young. Teen's minds and bodies aren't fully developed at that point. They work differently.

As SadakoMoose said, silly as it was for him/her to say it and assume that the thread title was all you were asking, some can come up with fucking BRILLIANT ideas. But when it comes down to it, the vast majority are immature and, compared to older people, not as intelligent.

You are a teen, correct? Stop focusing on that stuff. Trust me. Just sit back and enjoy life for now. Start worrying about your peers doing stupid things when they're at the age where it isn't acceptable.

 

[SidheKnight]

Most guys ARE jackasses in their teenage years.

It's a fact.

 

[HardkorSB]

Why are guy's such jack asses?
Not all guys, but some of thme.
Why is it all that these kinds of guys care about is sex, and they aren't even willing to continue the actual relationship, and just want to be at that one point? Imagine in a game, Where there's a story line, and then, all of the sudden, at a climactic point, the story line just ceases to progress, and it goes to repetitive gameplay, no more story. Sounds dumb doesn't it? Well, this is what a lot of people I know do, and they wonder why they break up 3 months later, not even wanting to go on another date with the fucking girl!
And with most of my female friends who have had this happen to them are some of the most interesting people I know! Why wouldn't you want to actually socialize with them? If you'd continue doing relationshipish things with them, and limit sex, odds are you'll end up having more sex but in a longer timeframe! Are these guys really this retarded?

That's a trait left over from our "animal days". Men want to fuck as many women as possible to make sure their DNA lives on. I know that there's protected sex and everything but the urge to fuck a woman and then switch to another one is still there. You can't just get rid of hundreds of thousands of years of survival instincts all of a sudden.
Also, sex is awesome and often, people choose their partner specifically for that purpose. That kind of relationship won't last long but the sex will be awesome.

Why do girls get upset that there douchebag boyfriend broke up with them?
Shouldn't this be expected? I've had it up to mt. everest with the amount of people who say "I'm so done with boys" On facebook and then 2 weeks later get into a relationship with another douchebag, 1 month later, after they were violated by said douchebag, they break up, process repeats itself.
Seriously?
WTF?

Ah yes, the "douchebag" argument.
Have you ever thought that these girls are just as much douchebags as the guys? Maybe they just want a hot dumb guy who can give them orgasms for a month and then move on to the next one? Not everyone is looking for a deep long term relationship.
And of course they're going to whine about it, just like I whine about my bag of weed being empty before going to get a new one.

Why do girls get into relationships with the same guy 4-5 times?
Now, this one very's alot.
So the way i'm going to explain this is tell you a storyish thing.
Alright, so my friend has recently started going out with this guy again.
The first time they dated, they went out for a month then broke up. They quickly got back together and dated for a year. He- HE dumps her and crushes her feelings, and depresses her. 2 months later they get back together and date for another 3 months. Once more, he dumps her, and she is depressed. By this time she has figured out the guy is a jerk, and doesn't want to get back together with him. Now 5 months later, they're back together once more. The hilariously Ironic thing is that 2 weeks ago one of our friends was talking to us about relationships, and she explained how she thought this guy was "A huge jerk."
Now this is fucking sad, but has made my day at the same time. WHY? WHY? WHY? How does your oppenion so drastically change in a few days? How do you fall for the same shit over and over again? It's insainity! Now I know why Einstien said that!

I refer you to the stuff I wrote above, except that he can give her orgasms that are so good that when she wants to move on to the next guy, she thinks that the orgasms won't be as good with others so she goes back to the same one.
Plus, that girl is kind of an idiot. Maybe you can't see it because you're friends but... she's an idiot.

So yeah, that's my response.

 

[Adellebella]

Alright, I don't think all teenagers are dumb, infact, I'm a teenager, but this is mainly focused towards some of the dumb things we do.

1) Why are guy's such jack asses?

2) Why do girls get upset that there douchebag boyfriend broke up with them?

3) Why do girls get into relationships with the same guy 4-5 times?

1) Because just like girls, guys are getting immense amounts of hormonal changes in their body. Guys are in their "prime" for mating, so biologically, their body is going to push them to SEXSEXSEXSEX. It also tends to make a person more aggressive (testosterone). That's why they're jackasses biologically. Psychologically it deals with how they are raised: how do they treat their mother? Is the father around? If so, what's he like to women/people in general? Then, there's friends...it's a long, long explanation. Simple answer: some guys just are more jackass-y and fucked up then others.

#2 and #3 come down to a simple thing: insecurity and naivety. As young girls, it's probably their 1st-3rd relationship with a man. Guys can sweet talk pretty well, especially if they know what the girl wants to hear. The girl then thinks, "maybe this will be different.." NOPE. It never is. And they don't know that - they have to learn it.

LEARN!

See that's why teenagers are so dumb. We don't know SHIT about dealing with real life, human situations, because this is our first tackle at it. I'm not saying you're a shut-in before you're 13, but a lot of that interaction is moderated by parents or teachers. Then we're suddenly out and unsupervised and WOW are we idiots.

And I'll stop there. I'm probably not right anyways - I'm 18.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Because the frontal lobes aren't fully developed before the age of 21 and even then they aren't completely done, foresight is in the frontal lobes. So young people are more reckless, just look at car accident statistics, the year where most accidents happen is at the age of 21 (in countries where you get your drivers lisence when you are 18).
Of course some people develope earlier and some later.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Why are guy's such jack asses?

Uhh... I found that I cherished relationships more in High School than any of my girlfriends, and I think I can literally say that about every guy I know. I say this because I was the one dumped in almost every single one of my serious relationships where I cared about the person (discounting the one where I called it off with a girl who clearly didn't care about me but wouldn't do it herself).

Why do girls get upset that there douchebag boyfriend broke up with them?

Actually, the douchebag ones tended to stay with girls until they got caught cheating (another one where I can think of a lot of people). Also happens a lot.

Why do girls get into relationships with the same guy 4-5 times?

Attachment.

I recently learned that a girl I was dating (the one who conviently had all of the above happen to her) just got back together with a guy who cheated on her twice.

Basically, she (and everyone else who does this) are idiots who haven't yet learned how to separate attraction and common sense. A lot of them need the relationship to have a sense of self worth. They need someone else to actually "feel complete", and they'll consistently screw themselves and never learn their lessons.

And I will laugh in the background.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Honestly? High school was a mystery to me. I was not in it for sex, I was in it for cuddling, talking, and be able to become emotionally close to someone without having to worry about being ******.

So yes having a girl friend in high school would be awesome. However, you are right. They would go out with idiots. Usually the popular kids who have been spoiled rotten by the social life and decided the school is their play toys. (but not always) How can anyone see a girl that pitiful in an attractive light?

I guess most teens are just trying to play grown ups, but end up stumbling blind because no matter how hard they try, they are ignorant to life.

erttheking: Say what you want, but I've always found the punk/emo quite hot. So according to the pic I'm stuck in the modern 80s

 

[Patrick Buck]

I'm a teen. I have never done any of those things. Some people are dicks. Not just teens do this. And they have the best excuse. They're growing up. They don't know who they are going to be, so they try everything, and that includes being a massive dick some of the time.

 

[arnoldthebird]

It's what happens at this age I guess, hormones run wild, guys are very typical, and girls ultimately just want to feel loved. I see nothing wrong with it, I for one and normally a shoulder to cry on for a lot of my female friend's, but never have had a relationship myself. Teenager's aren't necessarily dumb, it's just difficult as we/they are trying to find out who they are, perhaps it's an identity crisis, who knows...some will grow out of it and some won't, it's just what happens at our age.

The only explanation is that hormones are the cause, that and a whole lot of other stuff that might be going on behind closed doors

 

[CulixCupric]

Lack of life experience and wisdom. Just give them time, and they will learn, or end up dead. We call this natural selection. I'm not saying that they should nor need to die, but if they do, it's probably their own fault.

 

[Calvar Draveir]

Eh the concept of a teenager is an invented one. I don't exactly know when it came about, but before it, you simply went from child to adult. The concept of a teenager was invented for the sake of creating another market out of thin air. This way you could market things to "children", "teenagers" and "adults". It was a necessary invention on the part of capitalism (which relised on constant expansion). Now we have "tweens", another attempt to create another market. Will it work? Who knows.

But basically it's a self fulfilling prophecy. You say what teenagers are about, and then that is how they will act. Everything will reinforce this notion. You're acting out as a teenager? Well that's just hormones of a teenager. It's down to definition. Again not necessarily bad, but necessary for sure, in terms of our western capitalism.

By defining what makes a teenager, you can market certain products to the set of these people that now fulfill what your definition of teenager is.

It doesn't matter how it was created. Being a teenager is a thing. We're not talking about what you buy or when you start a job. We're talking about young people. And young people have always gone through stuff, even before they were called teenagers. I get what you're getting at, but its only barely relevant, IMO.

The "moodiness" and the other characteristics of a teenager were invented concepts until they became truth and accepted by everyone. Before the distinction you were treated as an adult (at the same age as what a teenager is now), and it would not have been put down to "oh that is teenage hormones" etc, but simply a naughty person (or adult) and would be treated as such. As such, when a child turned into an adult, they would not expect any different treatment, the way that teenagers can today. Again, I don't say this is a bad thing, but an invention nontheless.

Oh, ok, got ya. Being treated a certain way when young but almost adults definitely affects people. I agree with that. But I don't think that things would have been all that different before parents began to treat their kids in this way. Sure, kids used to be captains of ships at 13, and learned responsibility quicker, but growing up doesn't mean leaving your inner problems behind. They would have faced different problems than kids today, and handled them differently, maybe even better, but they also would have lost out on learning this more naturally, which might have helped them more in the long run. I think that moderation would be the best policy. Teens should be expected to contribute in a meaningful way, and take responsibility, but not at levels in which they will be overwhelmed. People respond well to being given responsibility at an early age, it is true, but the capability of the individual should definitely be taken into account.

 

[robot slipper]

Hmm I can apply all three of your scenarios to adults age 20-30 who I know. I must know some pretty immature people if they still act like teenagers! Or maybe some people cling onto their teenage years and don't grow up fora while.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

How ignorant, your generalisations and stereotypes are so terrible.