Quote from: RE on Sep 23, 2024, 03:15 AMIs it really like that out there in suburbia, or just more WOKE propaganda from Hollywood?  I tend to lean toward the latter.

My suburbia is a mix. My work is not. I am afflicted by youngsters everywhere and I must restrain myself sometimes when I want to shout out something "old mannish". The wife bashes me for it as well, with the daughters tacit agreement. They are quite comfortable with all the self identifying stuff, but can't explain to me how I am supposed to tell without asaking every tom, dick and jane what they identify as so I can get the pronouns correct.

I have just accepted being old, and try to minimize my old mannish manners as much as possible.

Around the block we have all kinds, and sometimes its a riot. Weird identifiers across the street, a wonderful gay female couple 5 houses down that are as nice as you can imagine and drive Jeeps, which makes them cool. Some traditional old fart people like me, two houses on the next block over, one flies "Don't tread of me" signs and Trump election stickers and the one right beside them is all BLM and Defund the Police and stuff.

Quote from: REIt would be nice if politicians  dealt with the real economic problems, but since they can't do that and get elected,, we get this endless nonsense.
RE

We get endless nonsense because people make up entertainment crap, it is disseminated through social media which normalizes it, and people you would least expect then begin to act as though what a moron in LA thinks is "cool" pops up locally and someone gets their head bashed for being cute with the local he-man football playing MAGA with no more brains than is expected who doesn't even know it was just a stupid joke/fad coming out of La La land.

I would also mention that bubble headed nonsense isn't confined to just social norms and behaviors, what were once decent scientific conversations have also become compromised as well, history has been reformed into nonstop conspiracies and greivances between classes, a single loud opinion claiming evidence of Yellowstone going BOOM! tomorrow gets more traction than the geophysics expert from the USGS contradicting it.