My bold padlet by Katie Quiroz

research question:

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 08:25:26 UTC

In a generation like gen z how has toxicity affected the way they handle romantic relationships especially when social media plays a big role in the influence.

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 08:26:56 UTC

“Tomorrow sex will be good again" by Katherine Angel discusses the experience women have within their sexuality, female desire, consent, and sexual politics. Social and political contexts surrounding sex including gender roles, power dynamics, and social expectations are talked about within the book. Consent is one of the many themes that are important because communication and mutual agreements in sexual encounters need to be taken more seriously. Pleasure is explored making it significant in intimate relationships and women's empowerment. The book engages with womens feminism and how it intersects and influences womens sexual orientation. Challenging stereotypes and exploring women's experiences in the realm of sexuality relates to female desire. Female sexual desire can help women know what they need and what they want. Sexual liberation is something that has to be explored in order to understand what it means for women and how social attitudes can help or challenge it

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 09:03:50 UTC

This article discusses how Gen z tends to fake their relationships because they want to fit in and seek validation. Gen z is normalizing toxic relationships because they care more about the physcial aspects and tend to go for one night stands rather then relationships that involve an emotional connection. Tik tok and other social media platforms have seem to be the places gen z go to for advice which is one of the many reasons withgen z relationships are more toxic then others because tik tok wasn't as used in the past. The gen z population believes in creating an online relationship is stonger then going out and meeting someone. Gen z believes that dating apps and social media makes it easier to cheat and they are the most generation to have trust issues especially because of the content being made within tik tok.

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 09:27:05 UTC

All the way back to the 1960's people we're eager to get married and go into the adult life. Now gen z wants to enjoy their freedom and tend to wan't to slow down their adult life by postponing things like stable relationships and just wan't to "live life". This generation has distrust problems and has allowed toxicity to influence their lives by trusting social media platforms. Students are even less likely to argue in class discussions because they don't wan't to be judged. Gen z tends to seek validation because their generation can be tough with their comments and tend to not care who they hurt. Gen z seems to have different views like for say trying to meet someone in person, one wrong action and gen z assumes the person is off or weird because they have trust issues.

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 09:54:48 UTC

It is important to know the signs and be able to seek what a toxic relationship looks like. There are different definitions of what the term "toxic" really means because it can be physical and mentally draining. When a relationship starts to get toxic you allow to be disrespected and tend to stop putting yourself first which causes you to stop taking care of your mental health. You start losing your self esteem and you feel unsupported, misunderstood and feel like your standards aren't being met. Not all toxic relationships encounter physical abuse but when they do they lead to some scary cases because the person isn't able to walk away out of fear and manipulation. Gen z deserves to encounter healthy relationships but they self sabotage by allowing their toxic tendencies to take over as well as their influences. There is different levels of toxicity and different relationships some tend to drain their partners while others make their partners believe that they deserve whatever is given to them regardless if its right or wrong

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 16:18:28 UTC

Gen z is open to mixing relationships meaning within friendships,commitment and situationships. Gen z depends on social media and dating apps on finding love and don't rely on old traditions. Gen z focuses more on the physical aspects of someone rather then focusing on their personality. Gen z has the opportunity of finding relationships quicker because of the opportunity of finding people online. Gen z can find matches within minutes and dosen't have to worry about having to go out and find someone but this can cause things to go wrong in some cases because meeting someone online has it's risks. For example getting catfished or even mislead and then ghosted because they feel like they don't own the person anything. Gen z perfers to be single and not deal with the physical emotions because they wan't their peace and wan't to experience their young days and live the party life

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 16:42:47 UTC

Gen z has always been connected with the internet since they we're growing up so they tend to go to social media looking for answers. 30% of gen z usues social media to help find connenctions and dates and it helps them put themselves out there. Social media has made it harder for people to put themselves out there in real life because they are scared of what it might bring and the feelings they might gain and it's easier to cut ties when its through online. Social media takes away from gen z's time because they are always on there phones and it's hard to give their time to anything else when everything is on a small screen. Although there is negatives there is also positives because social media brings people together and it helps them keep in touch while alos checking in with people.

thesis: In a generation like gen z toxicity within romantic partnerships has become more than just a toxic chemical and because of the influence social media has gen z has created their own definitions of toxicty and have embraced it through trends.

kquiroz4_ — 2023-12-07 16:46:38 UTC