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Poll:Various parental sources: ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. Likely true?

Various parental sources: ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. Likely true?

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farouk

farouk

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Various parental sources report that ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. (For some reason what I read from parents seemed to refer to the benefit on boys rather than girls.)

Is is likely to be true? if so, I don't know why. Any ideas?
 
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Rubbish! Because of the shape of my earlobes, other boys constantly teased me about having pierced ears. The only thing that, and other things they said, helped me to overcome was a sense of self-worth.
 
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Farouk, have you tried to see if there is any scholarly research on things like ear piercing and shyness, or ear piercing and self esteem?
 
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PouringRain said:
Farouk, have you tried to see if there is any scholarly research on things like ear piercing and shyness, or ear piercing and self esteem?
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PouringRain:

Thanks.

I don't know about this specifically.

But it's always possible that ppl could interview the moms and /or dads of boys who have gotten earrings and ask them all the same question about their levels of shyness before and after. I guess it could be called 'scientific', but I guess, too, that in the end the substance of the information gained would be the subjective - however meaningful - reports about various boys having lost their shyness to some extent.

Would you find such a study that you mention, interesting?

Because if there is any truth to the idea, it seems a straightforward and simple procedure, with a positive result.

Theophilus's point is helpful, too, because it may also be a matter of definition, whether getting beyond shyness can be described in other terms, as well.

(You see, I really don't know, but it's interesting, all the same.)
 
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The media here, as is probably the case all over the world, is always reporting on different kinds of research and studies, and reporting the results. It's amazing how often i read these articles and think to myself: "They have it backwards". For example, there was a study a few years ago that showed that people who spend a lot of time watching TV tend to be lonely. Really? Watching TV makes people lonely, and not the other way around? Could it be that people who are lonley spend more time watching TV, because they don't have any friends to hang around with?

I think it's similar with earrings and shyness. They're getting cause and effect confused. If his parents take a shy boy and have his ears pierced, I doubt that that will help him. But, if a boy who wants earrings, but is to shy to get them, overcomes his shyness, then he is likely to go and get his ears pierced. I think overcoming the shyness comes first, not as a result of the earrings.
 
Re: Poll:Various parental sources: ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. Likely t

Maybe in some it does, in others it may not affect them at all and in others it may have the opposite effect. This alll depends on the person, the society and the people they hang around.
 
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farouk said:
Various parental sources report that ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. (For some reason what I read from parents seemed to refer to the benefit on boys rather than girls.)

Is is likely to be true? if so, I don't know why. Any ideas?
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no, i was shy even after having my left ear pierced.though the whorish worldy women did take note.
 
Re: Poll:Various parental sources: ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. Likely t

That's the dumbest thing I've read all day. :screwloose
 
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jasoncran said:
no, i was shy even after having my left ear pierced.though the whorish worldy women did take note.
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jason:

Oh.

I guess you sound like you regretted doing it, then.
 
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farouk said:
jason:

Oh.

I guess you sound like you regretted doing it, then.
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i see NO need to do it now. when i did that it was wierd time in my life. i was involved to esoteric thinking and some criminal activites with a muslim dojo owner in louisana.i also was a bi male then , though i acted on the female actraction most of the time.(99%).

so when i talk about piercing that is when i did it and why regret is in the tone.
 
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Nick said:
Maybe in some it does, in others it may not affect them at all and in others it may have the opposite effect. ...
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Mike:

Interesting; so what did you have in mind exactly, when you mentioned it possibly having the opposite effect?

Blessings.
 
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Theofilus said:
If his parents take a shy boy and have his ears pierced, I doubt that that will help him. ...
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Theophilus:

I take your point about cause and effect, which may certainly be true in some circumstances.

But don't you think that it can also sometimes help in other circumstances if they take him to have the procedure done? (or even one earlobe, at least).
 
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farouk said:
Theophilus:

I take your point about cause and effect, which may certainly be true in some circumstances.

But don't you think that it can also sometimes help in other circumstances if they take him to have the procedure done? (or even one earlobe, at least).
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I'm not a psychyatrist, but I would find it very hard to believe.
 
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farouk said:
Mike:

Interesting; so what did you have in mind exactly, when you mentioned it possibly having the opposite effect?

Blessings.
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Firstly, it's Nick. :lol

Well that's exactly what I had in mind - it having the opposite effect - i.e. an ear piercing might get these shy people more on the social fringe, perhaps more bullied and they may be even more intraverted. It can easily happen with many other things, so why not piercings?
 
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Nick said:
Firstly, it's Nick. :lol

Well that's exactly what I had in mind - it having the opposite effect - i.e. an ear piercing might get these shy people more on the social fringe, perhaps more bullied and they may be even more intraverted. It can easily happen with many other things, so why not piercings?
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He thinks you are a capitilast, lol. You are a communist!:lol
 
Sounds like something conjured up by MTV.
I pierced my ears when I was 16. It didn't help my self image at all.
My dad did help me out of them as soon as he noticed though.


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Re: Poll:Various parental sources: ear piercings help boys overcome shyness. Likely t

Nick said:
Firstly, it's Nick. :lol

Well that's exactly what I had in mind - it having the opposite effect - i.e. an ear piercing might get these shy people more on the social fringe, perhaps more bullied and they may be even more intraverted. It can easily happen with many other things, so why not piercings?
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Oops, sorry Nick...... :sad
 
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