I’ve let myself down in the past by letting people press my buttons on this site and provoke me and get my posts taken down

You enjoy your day because you won’t get an aggressive response from me

You are part of society, and by forcing people to conform to gender stereotypes to avoid bullying, you give space for people to bully.

The more people who live freely and by choice do not confirm to old fashioned societal expectations, the less that expectations have, meaning the less they are seen as something worth bullying someone for, meaning the less power bullies have, the less space they have, the less of them there are. As a parent Grandad you should be old and wise enough to understand that.

TLDR - I do blame society, a part of society that you are helping promote with our of date views and so by extension, you are partly to blame.

Self-expression beyond stereotypes has very much been normalized in youth culture. It would more likely be the least reason to be bullied lol.

Buttons being pressed shouldn't provoke aggression. Like I said congratulations if you've taken steps to get a temper under control - I'm not having a jibe in this case, I'm dead serious when I say that not many get there unfortunately. The goal ultimately should be to have very few pressable buttons. I'm sure you have zero interest in my thoughts on the topic but as it's a public forum you never know who else might be reading now or at any time.

And that, sheriff, is how (in my opinion) we actively make the world better for everyone. By advising people to use their brains instead of their fists. Or their dicks. Both online an offline. Stepping in physically to "help people in the real world" is admirable if you do it when it's necessary but the better world is one where it never would be necesaary.

Just some thoughts :shrug:. Enjoy your Sunday.

Yes very true. I've always expressed myself as a youth. Every penny I earned and stole from my milk round wemt on clothes. The clothes I wanted, not the ones given at Xmas or birthdays. I think today, that there is a problem with teens just sitting back and doing nothing to earn the things they want because they know they will usually get what they ask for from their parents,

I dont think it's wrong to say kids get it easy these days, (they should) but not by pampering to their every whim, which is what's going on in society nowadays.

Some of them by the time they are 18 and 19 are far far to self entitled.

Weirdly the best and worst of both worlds seem to exist in high schools these days: people are still marginalised for stepping too far outside of gender norms, but they're ALSO marginalised for being hypermasculinised Andrew Tate wannabes or too hyperfeminine. A wider and thinner path all at once.

Certqinky seems to be better at the broader end though; normalised for girls to be into sports, gamers, etc or for boys to be interested in fashion and their appearance, which "in my day" (still only 20 years ago) would have been seen as things outside of gender norms.

That said even in my day it wasn't particularly unusual for boys to have long hair or girls short hair. That's a stereotype that was left in the... 60's?earlier? SURELY? Though it maybe came back a bit in the 90's.

How much time have you spent in second education over the past 5 to 10 years ?

You called me a strange aggressive little man hoping for a reaction which you didn’t get

You wouldn’t do it in real life so what makes you think it’s acceptable on a forum

I dare you to go up to a working class bloke and say that their face without getting slapped

The problem is with the word too many people think they can say what they like without there be consequences

You’ve literally told me you were gonna knock me out on here before.

It's like being at one of these events on here today.

How?

Er that you work from home and use a PC ...just guessing though :laugh:

Who are we celebrating and when are the mods bringing the leashes and/or Bibles (...why not both?)

I used to say that and worse to working class blokes as my main income, whilst telling them that I was keeping their money :joker:. Know what 10 years of it taught me?

99% of "hard men" are yap yap yap and nothing more.

Much happier at home on my computer to be fair, though some of it was fun.

How would that have been relevant to anything else he said? But feel free to join in the playing dumb Cherie it's standard patter on here.

Not playing dumb just skimmed the thread and not paid too much attention :shrug: feel free to call me dumb though, my page actually opened on that post, and then I realised there were more posts after it which I didn't bother to read ...

I just got on and just overnight there's already a few more pages added so understand exactly what you mean :laugh:

Over 200 posts on something we all know isn’t needed

PRIDE ?

No mate.

The hetero awesome gammonfest, or whatever it’s called

They are locked away for safe keeping until the 1st TIBB Xmas party.

That's a funny meme, some gamers however may never buy the game again if that's true. Imagine the chat in the role play version.:joker:

What’s funny about it exactly

We prefer HAG, tyvm.