Isn't it extra grating when someone born after 1960 is homophobic or racist or sexist?
It's all bad, but doesn't it really piss you off when you meet someone who hates gays or other ethnic and minority groups and they were born in the last 50 years.
Even if they were raised by hateful people, you would think their life experiences or just popular culture would make them realize how wrong it is to hate.
- No, it's extra grating when I see eldergays around here being homophobic and racist and sexist.
They REALLY should know better by now.
- Yes OP, it chaps my ass.
It frosts my blond highlights.
It jams a roto-rooter up my sewer.
- Through in ageist and you have it OP.
- Here's what R3 wrote in the Charlie Brown Christmas thread:
[quote]It only took 45 posts for the young faggots to arrive!
- [quote]It's all bad, but doesn't it really piss you off when you meet someone who hates gays or other ethnic and minority groups and they were born in the last 50 years.
Not really. You seem to be forgetting that anyone born after 1970 or so would've grown up in the Reagan-era '80s, with conservatives dominating the political sphere and adult gay men being afflicted by a mysterious "plague" that seemed to have no cure or fix. I'm surprised people in general haven't been MORE scarred by having their formative years shaped by this kind of horror.
And are you seriously naive enough to think that racial prejudice simply up and disappeared as soon as Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act? Did it escape your notice that white people born after 1960 are the MOST likely to have grown up in an overwhelmingly white suburban area, with little to no positive role models of color? Until "The Cosby Show" blacks on television in particular were generally depicted as ghetto- and housing project-dwelling mistrels. ("DY-NO-MITE!" Will Smith and Gary Coleman starring as troubled ghetto kids saved from the "horrors" of urban life by benevolent rich white folks!)
- Maybe homophobes and racist still being trained. It is usually what you learn at home.
- What annoys me is the number of people who took up smoking after it became clear that it was harmful. I can understand people over 50-60 or so, but anyone who came of age in the '80s or after has no excuse for smoking.
- [quote]Through in ageist and you have it OP.
Oh, [italic]dear.[/italic]
- LOL r2.
- [quote]What annoys me is the number of people who took up smoking after it became clear that it was harmful. I can understand people over 50-60 or so, but anyone who came of age in the '80s or after has no excuse for smoking.
Yeah, also HIV, right?
