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You know, social aspect of smoking was fairly usual reason to start smoking. Because, people are social animals. And like it or not, there was period when smoking meant making networking connections non-smokers did not had access to. The proposed solution has nothing in it for girls. It does not make their lives better. It is not helping them in any way, except proposing new gender based restrictions on them.

Yes, you can go on buy your son new gaming console to play with friends while telling girls they are not allowed to use technology to talk to people. In a world where no social media means no way to organize in person encounters too. That is what the proposal amounts to.



Girls can play video games too :)


That has nothing to do with the point.

The people who play them awful lot and get addicted tend to be overwhelmingly boys. Typically people treat them more of as a boy toy then a girl toy.




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