Over the weekend, I heard of a couple stories that cement the sentiment: the pussification of America is upon us.
1. Little League somewhere (maybe Cali?) did away with the Astros as a team name so the little kids won't be thought of as cheaters. Oy.
2. A school district in Upstate NY recently pulled its school logo/mascot (the cardinal) from its website because "it's scaring the elementary school children." I don't have a depiction of the cardinal, but apparently it had such a mean face, maybe like this one?
That they removed it.
What other pieces of admissible evidence is our there that in the area of pussification, we are truly FOCKED!?
To me that has nothing to do with "pussification" which is pretty misogynistic concept anyway.
Baby Boomers also had to deal with the Viet nam war. No fun going to college thinking you were going to die upon graduation because your draft number was 34. Boomers worked hard there were few silver spoons.
And let's not forget the squirrels, otherwise known as "Satan's Familiars."
You had it soft! We'd ghet turned out naked in January and were told to come back when the skunk cabbage started to sprout.
Boomers begat Gen X and Millenials, and Gen X begat Millenials and Gen Z. We are all to blame for the foibles of each successive generations (I'm barely a Gen X).
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bitch about younger generations. Baby boomers had every advantage known to man - born into a post-WWII booming American economy after their parents and grandparents endured the Great Depression and World Wars and handed them a country at the height of its powers. Low cost of living, low cost of education, social safety nets in place - I'd happily take all of those perks if it meant sacrificing my t-ball participation trophy.
Baby Boomers also had to deal with the Viet nam war. No fun going to college thinking you were going to die upon graduation because your draft number was 34. Boomers worked hard there were few silver spoons.
lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
My mistake...
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bitch about younger generations. Baby boomers had every advantage known to man - born into a post-WWII booming American economy after their parents and grandparents endured the Great Depression and World Wars and handed them a country at the height of its powers. Low cost of living, low cost of education, social safety nets in place - I'd happily take all of those perks if it meant sacrificing my t-ball participation trophy.
Baby Boomers also had to deal with the Viet nam war. No fun going to college thinking you were going to die upon graduation because your draft number was 34. Boomers worked hard there were few silver spoons.
Wait...wasn't the Vietnam War called the "Working Class War" because large portion of draftees fighting and dying were from the lower working class and not the privileged upper class? I mean, if that isn't a definition of silver spoon, I don't know what is.
You are being delusional if you don't think the bitching would be the same if the tech existed 50 years ago.
LOL. Happened a few years ago with my dad. He used to be proud that he had never even turned on a computer in his entire life.
He used to call me at work (which was never a problem since I worked alone) to book plane tickets, hotels, look up & order car parts, ect.
I would laugh & tell him that I thought he would like it and then he ended up getting a tablet as a gift. He took to it like a duck to water. He found a neighbors unsecured wifi & would use to connect to the internet, then would email me about it and tell me that he was pretty much a hacker now.
He picked it up quick!
Then two weeks later, he was blocked by Youtube from leaving comments on videos lol.
Wait...wasn't the Vietnam War called the "Working Class War" because large portion of draftees fighting and dying were from the lower working class and not the privileged upper class? I mean, if that isn't a definition of silver spoon, I don't know what is.
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total bull RC , you had a draft Number in a lottery it didn't matter if you were rich or poor. silver spoons are for the super wealthy not the middle class
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bitch about younger generations. Baby boomers had every advantage known to man - born into a post-WWII booming American economy after their parents and grandparents endured the Great Depression and World Wars and handed them a country at the height of its powers. Low cost of living, low cost of education, social safety nets in place - I'd happily take all of those perks if it meant sacrificing my t-ball participation trophy.
Baby Boomers also had to deal with the Viet nam war. No fun going to college thinking you were going to die upon graduation because your draft number was 34. Boomers worked hard there were few silver spoons.
Wait...wasn't the Vietnam War called the "Working Class War" because large portion of draftees fighting and dying were from the lower working class and not the privileged upper class? I mean, if that isn't a definition of silver spoon, I don't know what is.
The anecdote from my walking to school uphill both ways days is that whenever I got into trouble at school, I had to apologize to the teacher (at a minimum) and got punished twice as hard at home. That was the default practice and the teacher/school didn't even need to say what it was I did wrong. Honestly, I think that's how it should be.
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bitch about younger generations. Baby boomers had every advantage known to man - born into a post-WWII booming American economy after their parents and grandparents endured the Great Depression and World Wars and handed them a country at the height of its powers. Low cost of living, low cost of education, social safety nets in place - I'd happily take all of those perks if it meant sacrificing my t-ball participation trophy.
Baby Boomers also had to deal with the Viet nam war. No fun going to college thinking you were going to die upon graduation because your draft number was 34. Boomers worked hard there were few silver spoons.
Wait...wasn't the Vietnam War called the "Working Class War" because large portion of draftees fighting and dying were from the lower working class and not the privileged upper class? I mean, if that isn't a definition of silver spoon, I don't know what is.
Only the ones who didn't know how to speak Canadian.
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In comment 14813406 bceagle05 said:
total bull RC , you had a draft Number in a lottery it didn't matter if you were rich or poor. silver spoons are for the super wealthy not the middle class
I'm not sure...when you can pretty much get a deferment for being a college student for a few years, you don't have to be ultra rich to get one. These are opportunities not afforded to minorities and poor whites from the south. So tell me how that isn't silver spoon? Having a draft number doesn't mean equal chance of being picked when you can literally remove yourself from the lottery (in a sense) for a few years because of some kind of a deferment whether it was college or medical deferment you got from your family doctor.
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But my cats say birds are bad.
And let's not forget the squirrels, otherwise known as "Satan's Familiars."
Years and years ago, my wife was driving her car when a squirrel ran out in front of her. In her attempt to avoid it, she actually hit and killed the squirrel. To this day, it still bothers her, but that doesn't stop me from saying, "I was there. You tried to hit that squirrel you sick bastard."
The anecdote from my walking to school uphill both ways days is that whenever I got into trouble at school, I had to apologize to the teacher (at a minimum) and got punished twice as hard at home. That was the default practice and the teacher/school didn't even need to say what it was I did wrong. Honestly, I think that's how it should be.
So you're arguing that the parents of Millennials and Gen Z are the real assholes here.
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but I will say that, irrespective of generation, a teacher's grade should be absolute and parents should absolutely be prohibited from trying to get it changed. Likewise, if a school punishes your child, there's probably a 99% chance that (s)he deserved it. Let it go.
The anecdote from my walking to school uphill both ways days is that whenever I got into trouble at school, I had to apologize to the teacher (at a minimum) and got punished twice as hard at home. That was the default practice and the teacher/school didn't even need to say what it was I did wrong. Honestly, I think that's how it should be.
So you're arguing that the parents of Millennials and Gen Z are the real assholes here.
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Bet it's a Boomer or Gen X.
The anecdote from my walking to school uphill both ways days is that whenever I got into trouble at school, I had to apologize to the teacher (at a minimum) and got punished twice as hard at home. That was the default practice and the teacher/school didn't even need to say what it was I did wrong. Honestly, I think that's how it should be.
Yeah, adults are to be trusted.
Fuck that. Trust is EARNED. INDIVIDUALLY, not institutionally.
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but I will say that, irrespective of generation, a teacher's grade should be absolute and parents should absolutely be prohibited from trying to get it changed. Likewise, if a school punishes your child, there's probably a 99% chance that (s)he deserved it. Let it go.
The anecdote from my walking to school uphill both ways days is that whenever I got into trouble at school, I had to apologize to the teacher (at a minimum) and got punished twice as hard at home. That was the default practice and the teacher/school didn't even need to say what it was I did wrong. Honestly, I think that's how it should be.
That's the mindset that gets Boy Scouts and Altar Boys raped.
Yeah, adults are to be trusted.
Fuck that. Trust is EARNED. INDIVIDUALLY, not institutionally.
That escalated...whoa.
Impossible - there's no way miniature horses live that long.
However, It was not all rosy back then. Christian prayer was mandatory. Conformity was the rule. My public high school had a dress code. My brother is a lefty and his grade school teacher tied his left hand to his chair to force him to write with his right (correct) hand. Bullying, especially in athletics was condoned.
I agree that teachers need to earn respect. But, if you had any idea the amount of pressure that administration puts on classroom teachers to inflate grades, ignore or cover-up problem or even violent students and placate helicopter parents, I suspect you would be more likely to cut teachers some slack.
Wait...so this didn’t happen to anyone else?
"This generation, the closest they come to a fist fight is on a message board" - ( New Window )
The Ed people also shape policy through their influence on legislators and think tanks. Thad where all this dumb $hit is coming from
Now the mom's that break out the hand sanitizer every time they touch a fish are doing more harm by making their kids afraid of everything than a little fish slime will ever do to you. I find a lot of parents seem to be very afraid of anything that is outside of their normal safety bubble. They seem to just be living constantly on edge trying to protect themselves from every little (imaginary) thing. I don't remember growing up around as much fear as people carry around now a days.
It is amazing but also not entirely their fault. I graduated in the late '70s and yeah fighting was pretty common. But you fought until one gave up and ended there. Use to see fights in HS all the time. It would be over, the VP would tell you don't do it again and everyone moved on.
Now if they get in a fight it can result in criminal charges and suspensions.
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...on the subject. "This generation, the closest they come to a fist fight is on a message board" - ( New Window )
It is amazing but also not entirely their fault. I graduated in the late '70s and yeah fighting was pretty common. But you fought until one gave up and ended there. Use to see fights in HS all the time. It would be over, the VP would tell you don't do it again and everyone moved on.
Now if they get in a fight it can result in criminal charges and suspensions.
keep working jackass the next 40 years will fly by hahahaha loser
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People don't fight, because taking someone to court to try to get rich has become standard practice. Schools take fighting more seriously, because they don't want to be sued into oblivion.
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parents are the problem. A teacher cannot give a child a poor grade because the mother will come into school the next day trying to get that teacher fired.
If we can go back to when parents would smack their kids in the ass when needed... we may be in a different place today.
That's how the Baby Boomers were raised, right? The assholes who destroyed virtually ALL that was good in this country?
Fuck them and fuck their parenting advice. My 'politically correct' kids are killing it.
First of all before I respond I am not a Boomer, I'm Gen X. Secondly, no generation is responsible for the countries' policies. Most boomers were to busy going to work to support their kids. Bad policy caused problems, but overall, this country is pretty damn great, and if you're blaming others for problems you should take a long look in the mirror. This is still a land of tremendous opportunity.
To me that has nothing to do with "pussification" which is pretty misogynistic concept anyway.
My understanding is the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida has supported the Florida State University's use of the Seminole name and tradition. They represent the Seminoles as brave warriors, nothing disrespectful about it.
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parents are the problem. A teacher cannot give a child a poor grade because the mother will come into school the next day trying to get that teacher fired.
If we can go back to when parents would smack their kids in the ass when needed... we may be in a different place today.
That's how the Baby Boomers were raised, right? The assholes who destroyed virtually ALL that was good in this country?
Fuck them and fuck their parenting advice. My 'politically correct' kids are killing it.
First of all before I respond I am not a Boomer, I'm Gen X. Secondly, no generation is responsible for the countries' policies. Most boomers were to busy going to work to support their kids. Bad policy caused problems, but overall, this country is pretty damn great, and if you're blaming others for problems you should take a long look in the mirror. This is still a land of tremendous opportunity.
While I agree many, most I'd say, need to take ownership of their lives and stop blaming their problems on others, social mobility is very low here compared to other developed countries. This country is pretty damn great compared to the developing world, but compared to other developed nation's we have a ton of institutional problems.
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wtf?
Wait...so this didn’t happen to anyone else?
It's the old saying:
"B's get degrees. C's get ass prolapses"
They held a vote for a new name.
Titans won.
Was promptly shot down because apparently Titans ate babies.
In mythology.
So eventually they settled on "Red Storm".
Mascot emblem is a black cloud with a red lightning bolt.
Sad.
If someday someone decides that "Hornets" is a bad mascot for some reason or another, I doubt I'd even fucking care, because I graduated high school in 1997 and that's the last day I cared about high school.
Grow up. Times change. Morality changes. We're all going to die anyway, who cares?