Reply #150: "juvenile posturing" [View All]

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Well - some people are in that mode.

Sometimes I have thought that the "juvenile posturers" would like to make the board be a place just for them. Like a locker room or something.

I have a son in his 20's who thinks that DU is mostly juvenile posturing - so he's not really interested.

Me - I mostly ignore that aspect - unless I decide to confront it.

Some of the more misogynist stuff I find to be quite annoying. But I'm too stubborn to let stuff like that drive me away.

There have been long-drawn out debates about the use of words that are esp. derogatory toward women. Unfortunately - some people do not realize how women-hating they sound - or they don't care. And there is the problem that the language of swearing tends to reflect a lot of misogyny anyway. So where some people think that they are being "all grown up" or something - using the "forbidden" words - what they are often doing is expressing hatred for women. AFAIC - that has quite a history in the culture - including Christianity - ironically enough.


OTOH - I think it can seem rather condescending of adults to insist that other adults never swear. While - I know that you're not doing that - I suppose that some might hear it that way.

(And if this hadn't made it to the Greatest - I would have missed it).