It's egregious when a public school teacher commits rape and is defended by the union to the point they cannot even be fired. There's every bit as morally superior an element to anyone who teaches, I'm sure you agree. After all, they're passing up a chance at much bigger personal wealth, fame, achievement, etc., for the sake of filling young skulls full of mush.
back in my day, the men were men! we used to go down to the gravel pit and play smear the queer, man id be sore when we got home, knees all skinned up and sweaty
Reading this thread, I see a distinct difference in generations about sex. There is now a generation who think only of negatives when they think of sex. My generation giggled nervously in the brief moments that sex was mentioned, wanting more sexual freedom. I guess conservatives blame liberals for this school indoctrination, but we liberals blame conservatives. Maybe the real side to blame is the intelligence agencies, who installed thie anti-sex school curriculum as a motivational method to increase the general work ethic. As Freud said, work is the sublimation of sex.
Taking pride in your particular accident of birth beyond your control (your ethnicity, your birth-country, your generation...) always seems silly and sad to me. Referring to an entire generation with pride seems to be taking a rather communistic view, as if they were all the same person rather than millions of unique individuals. Some good, some bad. Proud of Kennedy's assassination and the KKK lynchings of Americans committed by your generation? Proud of bombing civilians in Cambodia? The Love Canal? The Kent State murders? Watergate?
Remember being chased down the train tracks in Eugene by that policeman? "Halt, or I'll shoot..." Good times. Or down at the creek in Rodgers Park in LO with Karen & Kim and some wine.... Today it'd be, "gee Suzy, wanna play video games inside on a beautiful sunny day?"
Well, I spent the summer after my junior year of high school hitch hiking around British Columbia. Slept outside every night. I miss it. I'd still rather be outside than in if possible.
I will agree that bicycle helmets are extremely overrated. Those European pussies don't wear helmets, and they ain't as fat.