"I dyed my hair blue to feel more masculine" is something no guy has ever said, least in part because it can't possibly be true. And before that, the other girl running up and hugging her for announcing she's a guy. a firm hand shake? A fist bump? a comradely punch to the shoulder? Not a high five, the risk of missing is too great. There are any number of ways actual guys would acknowledge something big, but being a guy is not something to celebrate that way.

It's almost like she's saying "I'm free of the prison of gender that has been placed on me", but she was probably never told that and never saw that idea given any credence by her school. It makes me think of how easy it is to see the array of institutions in these kids lives as just prisons within prisons.

I feel bad for those kids turning their confusing and painful adolescence into ... what ever you would call what is going on in that video. I find it laughable, mockable even, but that's to avoid dealing with just how sad and messed up it really is. There's a whole community around that teenaged girl, and her friends. How many adults in their lives have failed them?

Or is it the institutions that govern their lives? Schools dominate kid's lives. I partly think the amount of homework given is more about extending the way schools come between kids and their families and neighborhoods. Areas in these kids' slives where schools are not directly dominating them, the internet steps in. Where do the kids end up doing their homework? after a certain age, on the internet, so it's like a closed circuit between the schools and the internet spinning these kids' heads around.