Is your college kid a fragile weenie?

[raftman]

That video just made me throw up in my mouth!!!!
Who in their right minds can raise children to be like this??? OMG!!!!! WE ARE DOOMED!!!

Yep. We might speak of doom with comic effect but when more of these kinds of people become voters and perhaps even lawmakers, it's a farewell to ideas like freedom of speech or notions of meritocracy. They don't only make dumb little videos online; there comes a point when they start to make policy. Take Europe for example. The Swedish equivalent to the MPAA now rates films as appropriate or inappropriate in part according to how much gender bias the film contains...

( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/swedish-cinemas-bechdel-test-films-gender-bias )

or how about their plans for using "feminist foreign policy" in dealing with a more assertive Russia?

( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-policy-to-counter-macho-russian-aggression/ )

In the UK a charity race for a children's hospice is being investigated as a "hate crime" because transsexuals' feelings were hurt (apparently participants in the race dressed in drag for comic effect). Talking about being fragile weenies: putting their feelings above the needs of suffering children!

( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...re-runners-dress-in-drag-is-dehumanising.html)
One could spend all day listing specific examples of how all of this stuff is taking hold here in the USA as well.

 

[Lightning]

Yup my college kid is a weenie. ;(. 5'9" 280# ex marine sargeant that can bench press VWs and leg press Dodge Rams.
He has 4 kids under 8 and is a better father than I ever was.
Where did I go wrong?

 

[Diamondback]

You put an "A" in place of the first "E" in "Sergeant".

Good on ya and good on HIM!

 

[Lightning]

He spells better than I also.
He's working on a degree in child counseling.

 

[Diamondback]

That should be interesting... "*insert sensitive compassion stuff here* ... Now drop and Give Me 50!" LOL

 

[Sgt Nambu]

For some reason I have this nightmarish vision of the movie Starship Troopers...

I know! The shower scene right!!!

 

[Diamondback]

I was thinking the Patton Speech taken to Nightmare Level illustrated: "when you stick your hand in a puddle of goo that used to be your GIRLFRIEND's face..."

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Yeesh, someone feels all condescending and defensive. Do quote where I said that, though.



Ham-fisted parables are best left to Sunday school teachers; we have to look at the observable results from the direction in which we are moving. If the future belongs to this generation:

...then the granite block should've been left where it sat some time ago.

I dunno, I kinda enjoyed it!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Sometimes I think surely plenty of them will grow out of it but then I see 30+ year olds who are still not functional adults. A friend of mine who is about the same age (actually a couple years older) is struggling with the dating scene. Says it's a rare thing to find someone in our age group that has decent-paying job, a car, etc.

Yeahhh, but I'm guessing that if gender and sexuality were removed from the equation, about the same percentage would still not be functioning adults!