> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Miles Jackson wrote:
>>
>> >Go to a mall and look at the clusters of 13 year olds and
>> >what they're wearing. Can you say with a straight face
>> >they're expressing their unique individuality? Bullshit.
>>
>> Could be that the distinctions are invisible to us geezers. I'm sure
>> they could offer rich annotated guides to the styles of their cool
>> and uncool peers.
>
> This just reinforces my point: where do the criteria for "cool"
> come from? 13-year old kids don't come up with this stuff
> themselves!
You have a pretty low opinion of thirteen-year-olds.
There aren't many _forty-year-olds_ who come up with "this stuff" themselves, either.