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It reminded me very much of those documentaries screened (?) last year? could be 2002 the way things are going ~ where they put a bunch of 12 year old boys in a house on their own for a week, and subsequently did the same with a bunch of girls.
The regression into childish, raucous, "anarchic" behaviour in the absence of the parent was pretty striking ~ especially considering that BB seems quite an absent parent most of the time anyway, and was really just as much "there" during today as it always is.
Of course, the comparison to those docs about real boy and girl-children in a big house is limited because we had a mixed group here, but it did also seem that they were getting into (stereotypically) gendered behaviour such as you see among primary schoolkids, with the boys roughhousing and making a mess while the girls stand back, watching with slightly disgusted and aloof amusement, and tell each other "I'm not clearing that up, are you? Don't clear it up."
I'm afraid this post may be full of inaccuracies and ignorance, but it's a start. |
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Mikey
Johnny 'Strontium Dog' Alpha 