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Bluewaters don't need to ban hoodies and baseball caps. They aren't intimidating - the only reason that anyone is scared of teenagers who wear their hoods up is because the news media has been fearmongering to make teenagers lives more difficult than they already are.
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Although I agree with you that it was a bit of a pointless gesture in banning hoodies outright, and I was mostly playing Devil's advocate, I'd argue the idea that "teens in hoodies don't look intimidating". Sure, a lot don't - but banning intimidating-looking-teens-in-hoodies sounds a bit... unworkable. One person's major terrifying threat is another person's schoolfriend looking cool.
I'm a young single female, and a lot of kids/early teens that live round my way seem to go out of their way to look like they'd jump you as soon as look at you - I'm fully aware that it's mostly newshound scaremongering, but the fact is that in recent weeks gangs of youths (like those Bluewater have banned) HAVE caused peoples' deaths, and it does make you think twice about standing on a platform at an unmanned train-station with a gang of jeering teenagers down the platform throwing glass bottles on the track. They're probably no threat whatsoever, they're probably discussing school and shopping and computer games - hell, they might be discussing azaleas for all I know - but the fact is I DON'T know that - for all *I* know they might be sizing me up and about to try and nick my handbag. Human nature to over-react and fear the unknown, and all that?
...and I'd argue that teens lives are so "oh GOD SO HARD *angstangst*!" but then I don't know much about you and I don't want to generalise.
And can't people leave the whole Dino/Codek thing alone, now? *geesh*