The Pussification of America

[Anonymous 0]

I’ve been thinking and talking about this since before George Carlin said his bit on it. I figure this should be a good place to post up and let you guys loose with it.

When I was a kid we NEVER WORE HELMETS to ride our bicycles. I would get home from school and hop on my bike, wheelie down to my friends house, and we would take off riding for hours. Sometimes we’d get our BB guns and wander off in the woods and shoot stuff. We might gather scrap lumber from a new house under construction and build a fort or a treehouse.

I pity these kids today. A lot of the stuff we did, if they did do it today, would be illegal and there’d for sure be a camera somewhere gathering evidence.

Let ‘ur rip guys.

[It’sallbsParticipant]

Same everywhere.

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

RIGHT. Used to spend all summer daylight hours outside on a mountain side climbing waterfalls, going in caves, running, playing, whatever.

We have allowed ourselves to become feminized [pussified] as a nation.

“Just Say NO — to a woman.” New campaign.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[ExecrationParticipant 1496]

Caves, what fun! When I was a child i enjoyed firecrackers. I also however enjoyed burning newspapers in tunnels with others. Got quite creative.In my young adult years I remember one fourth of july. That street corner with the agreement of neighbors was a dancing of lights. Anything and everything wizzing ever direction possible, betifull. Couldn’t see a damn thing but color and hear hysterical laughter. A true sight of wonder and magic.

Thanks for a trip down memory lane!

[Mr.NeverAgainParticipant 146]

Anonymous wrote:

there’d for sure be a camera somewhere gathering evidence.

This isn’t just a factor, but a symptom of something entirely different. In most circumstances, just about anyone will pursue the path of least resistance/maximum comfort, especially since parents can be judged by the whole world now, if something happens to their children and it makes the news. Technology has brought about a new era of obsessive concern over the thoughts and opinions of others, as well as constant surveillance with the added danger of instantly uploading things that destroy lives. Modern living is only getting cushier, and many simply do not value the ethics and audacity of risk taking anymore.

Never mind living in a country where a gorilla can become more important than a toddler. Suddenly people who can’t care for a cactus become experts on how easy it apparently is to keep a constant, unwavering eye on kids.

“I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise." The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

[narwhalParticipant]

But there are sexual predators out there!

Yep, I think all kids were the same. I pretty much went wherever my bike could take me. Before that, it was wherever the big wheel could take me. Heck even dogs had that kind of freedom, running in packs through the neighborhood. All the kids and dogs would come home when it got dark for dinner.

My kids have no where near that kind of freedom. I try to give them a ‘long leash’ but it’s difficult since they don’t have a lot of friends near my house and I don’t want to risk losing access to them.

Ok. Then do it.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Roger that loud and clear.

Anonymous wrote:

before George Carlin said his bit on it

Bill Maher said his bit on it too.

“The female values have become the values of America”.

• “Feelings” are more important than FACTS.
• “Sensitivity” is more important than TRUTH.
• “Safety” is more important than FUN.
• (unborn) Children are more important than (living) PEOPLE.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

And don’t forget bottle rockets!

[Anonymous 54]

My mother said I dont belong inside. I spent my youth outside.
She said go play in the traffic.

I out ran my first Cop at 14.

Kids these days.

[Anonymous 0]

Yeah, we had the real bottle rockets; the little ones that could put your eye out. Plus the real M80s. There was a place we could buy M80s that had “For Agricultural Use Only”. Those bad boys were equivalent to 1/4 stick of dynamite. They would reduce a school toilet to a mound of porcelain rubble. Damn I miss those.

[Anonymous 24]

This paradigm you speak of here is just yet another result of Leftist ideology/agenda, that of larger and larger government and control all sold to the masses under various forms of “It’s good for you, and everyone”. What we are left with is less and less freedom, and more and more taxes and laws to obey and fines to pay.

I for one am glad I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s back when you could roam the neighborhood with a BB gun and not get shot by some PUSSIFIED cop.

[Anonymous 0]

I have a close work and hunting buddy whose young son got arrested for making a mentos “bomb”. I guess you mix mentos candy in a 2 liter diet coke and cap it off. He set it off in a vacant lot near his home. Cops came and the boy was charged with “domestic terrorism” or some other stupid s~~~ like that. He eventually got out of it but initially it looked pretty grim.

[SimpleLifeParticipant 439]

When my son was little I let him use this little hatchet to chop down small maple trees that were going to die anyway. He’d say “I want to axe something” and I’d get him the hatchet and off he would go for a while. I’d encourage my kids to go dig holes in the woods and just be real children. Its a foreign concept to a lot of parents these days. My last gf had kids and they were completely incapable of just playing outside. No imagination. No adventure.

[PuniShredderParticipant 2268]

I was literally 100 times tougher and more physical than my sons. No matter what I do, I can’t keep them outside for more than an hour before they are sneaking in for something. They never venture far from the house. Their lives are on their phones (wife insists they have them), YouTube, games. I don’t have the energy for the constant battles to try to make them hard. It’s a losing proposition. I do my best and that’s it. For as long as I’m here.

Be professional be polite but always have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

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