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So just because something is normal means that it should be ignored and brushed off? I certainly agree that this attitude has been around for all of human history, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I will not tolerate it in my own children, when that time comes.
And after spending the weekend with 3 single men in their late 20s and 30s, listening to joke after joke after joke about gay people, ugly women, fat women, immigrants, people who like BDSM, religious people, disabled people, and pretty much anyone who's "different," I have to say that I'm pretty annoyed with that attitude as well. These aren't young people I'm talking about. They're adults with graduate degrees and good incomes.
I'm not saying that women are altogether different, but I don't understand the pattern among men to joke joke joke, har har har, about people who are not mainstream. I mean, get over it, for chrissake. Isn't there something else to joke about?
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