To the middle school women of r/GenAlpha - if a second grader pulled on your back-pockets...
...in this day & age, how would you react to them?
When I was in 2nd grade, I thought it was funny to pull on girls' back-pockets (which I called "butt-pockets" back then) so I did that plenty of times.
There was a middle school attached to my Elementary school that year, so that morning, before I went inside to go upstairs to my class, I talked with a pair of middle school women briefly who were walking towards their school. They were in 7th or 8th grade, and I don't remember what I talked about. Then I ended the conversation by pulling on both of their back-pockets and laughing, then as soon as I went inside the front door, the janitor told me in the foyer that he had just seen me "pinch" their back-pockets so he'd go upstairs to let my teacher know. I begged him not to, and he wouldn't budge, and told me I'd better hurry to class so I don't get a tardy remark on my class's student record.
A couple minutes after I got to my 2nd grade class, the custodian appeared right outside our door, then asked my teacher to come out to the hall, then narced on me for pulling on a pair of older girls' back-pockets. For that, I got my name on the board as a sanction for what I've done.
The pair of middle schoolers only went "Ooh!" and walked faster in the other direction to their school right after I pulled on their back-pockets.
But if a 2nd grader were to do that to a pair of middle school gals in 2025, would their reactions be different? What would happen differently?
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