Sweaters with huge brand logos (very popular in the early eighties) ... free advertising, and the customer even paying a high price for them, as they were pretty expensive! And wearing polo shirts with the collar up, another late seventies, early eighties, fashion mystery ... -- Pitralon forever - Real pens have a nib - If it doesn't tick, it's not a watch.
Boys are being brainwashed into having ovaries?!? Girls fight, and girls are brainwashed into being "girls", too.
I wasn't addressing what our society tells little girls, and happen to have issues with most of that too. Pretending that the development of both males and females should follow a similar trajectory with similar behavioral norms is, in this man's humble opinion, is a shiny happy fantasy at best. My particular comment was related to bullying and boys. The problem with today's "bullying zero tolerance" is that many bullies are still bullies when they become adults, except now we teach men to be passive, which allows adult bullies free reign. Your turn.
Guys who wear baseball caps backwards. The sole purpose of a baseball cap is to keep the sun out of your eyes. And while we're at it, the new style of caps with completely flat brims annoys me too, as does the practice of leaving the stickers on the brim after purchase.
The cap I wear has a flat brim - it's a newsboy type hat. Sometimes called a 'Flat cap'. It's not new, being over a century old.
I have to ask - how is Billy Ray Cyrus responsible for line dancing? I remember being taught how to line dance in the mid 70's, in elementary school.
I have no problem with newsboy caps. The ones I'm referring to are the flat brim baseball caps like this:
I'm not sure I follow. You meant to say boys are taught to be passive, but you said they are taught to be girls?
Hm. I think they tend to be _made_ that way. Basically, someone just tried to save some money by not doing the conforming step, and it caught on. cheap bastards.
Avocado and orange colored kitchens. Pop Rocks. Platform shoes with real goldfish swimming in them. Dietary candy called Ayds®. Anything Chia Pet.
I think his one hit wonder song "Acky Breaky Heart" really got the line dancing craze started. From what I remember.
I think it was more that the song was _made_ for line dancing, and then they played it incessantly. "Don't play that song, that Achy Brakey Song. The Most Annoying song I know. And if you play that song, that nauseating song, I might blow up my radio." (Trying to remember what song I was asked to bring up for line dancing at a wedding reception.. Oh, yeah. Boot Scooting Boogie) Don't forget the "I'm going to bore you forever and ever" (Love you forever) from Randy Travis.
Yes. Bad hyperbole that didn't help make the larger point. Not meant not disparage girls, or women; though I see upon reading it again that it could be taken that way. My apologies for post one-as possibly inflammatory to half of humanity, bad post by me.
Without jumping into an conversation in order to start an argument..... I really do believe that a lot of effort is being put into eliminating all sources of confrontation in children, at least where any potential violence/aggression is involved. And in ten year old boys that used to mean bopping each other in the nose once in a while. The problem is that even twenty years ago, adult men that we placed a level of trust in (teachers, coaches and police) used to help our boys learn how to deal with aggression. We also learned that a black eye wasn’t all that big of a deal. But now there is no exposure to aggression or testosterone, and when a sixteen year old kid explodes in some spectacular terroristic fashion, we all scratch our heads and wonder how a kid could have ever gotten so angry. Maybe I took something out of your guys’ exchange that wasn’t there, and I apologize, but just a couple of cents worth.
