I think the whole human race is immature.

[bladespark]

I was not shocked to find immaturity rampant among furries. Neither was it really all that surprising to find that ball joint doll fans tended to be childish. And of course it's no more than one might expect to see that My Little Pony fans are not always paragons of adult behavior (though actually they seem to do better than the former two fandoms,) but man... the official board of inquiry for a certain reptile themed forum is worse than any of the above mentioned for childish insults! Here are threads that are intended to be serious, facts-only discussions of business practices, where grown men are calling each other names. Somebody actuall was running around calling somebody else named "Barry" "Dingleberry." I haven't heard something like that since I left elementary school.

I am forced to conclude that the entire human race is descending into childhood.

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[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Humanity = teh stupid.

It is known

[eisenhart.livejournal.com]

You know this is a good thing, right?

When the process is complete all us people with greater than room-temp IQ's get to take the others stuff.

[loweko.livejournal.com]

Or lynched.

[wolfmare.livejournal.com]

Heh... That's actually a bit of a nickname for my little sister. We come from a family with the surname "Berry". So, the most aggravating nickname we could come up with for her as kids was 'dingleberry'.

Thing is, at this point it's not even insulting anymore, just a nickname.

[silveradept]

Perhaps, along a more evolutionary standpoint, we haven't quite made it out of childhood/adolescence. There's still quite a bit of growing up to do. Seeing things like that don't give much for encouragement, mind, but if we can just hang on for another few hundred millenia...

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

Problem though, silver: all the intelligent people are waiting to reproduce, and having fewer children. At the same time those exhibiting shoe-size IQs breed like a nypho rabbit on viagra and aphrodisiacs. Ergo, evolution as a means of actually producing something better is badly broken when applied to humanity.

Of course, you could also argue that reducing the population to a sludge of cross-eyed, knuckle-scraping morons that have to have three tried just to get a spoon in their mouth is a way to prevent the species eradicating itself in war or technological implosion, but I'd argue whether this is better or not.

[silveradept]

I've never figured out why that tendency is, unless some blanket statement like "You must have this much IQ to understand and use contraceptives" actually does apply in this case. The Catholic Church is obviously not helping in this particular regard, with their position on birth control and such, but there seems to be a more fundamental disconnect than just Papal refusal to endorse contraceptives.

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

Right now, the choice for women is 1) have children or 2) have a career.

Of course, the successful, intelligent, independent, career-driven women pick option 2. By the time they're settled and ready to have children and focus their life in a new direction, they usually only have one or (maybe) two or nature decides that they're too old to have any at all.

The other ones with no interest or knowledge of how to be successful/rich/etc start breeding right from the get go.

The way to combat this (Canada is not even replacing its own population anymore and I doubt the US is either) is to give career women the options of having children earlier in life by making it easier to balance both.

[silveradept]

True enough. That there's an either-or choice between career and motherhood shows how far we've got to go on doing more than lip-service to the idea that women can be successful mothers and maintain a job and career. Perhaps if we could sweep away some of the dust that maintains that a woman's place is always in the home, raising children and being subservient, then we could finally lay down a workable set of ideas to get women working and raising children.

[thetommydodd.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the problem is worse on more "serious" forums simply because of the lack of humour associated with such places. An insulting word is no longer met with a snigger and an equally mocking reply, but is deemed a matter to be settled only with pistols at dawn.

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

Yes, a LOT of lives would be saved if only people could be less uptight.
You, my friend, are a genius. ^3^

yeah

[aazhie.livejournal.com]

the BOI USED to be moderated very heavily and used to be pay-only to post, it was much more mature then, i wish there was a better system of regulation on it. People were much more polite when you could get banned for swearing. in reality, we are all a bunch of dumb little kids :P

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[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Reading through the posts on there is one of those train wreck experiences... It's awful, but you just can't stop reading.

Re: yeah

[aazhie.livejournal.com]

I agree, i usually have to peel myself away, most of the time i am searching for any shred of intelligence or fact, or seeing if the "bad guy" will post anything... :P I am usually dissapointed. I kind of wish that only the people who claim to have dealt with the person in question could post, (or if they were explaining something important, the mods could dent/approve messages) it would make things A LOT more coherant... :)

Such is the price of free speech and information... I usually avoid it except to post a report on someone I just dealt with or to look up a seller who has something I need. If there's a load of drama going on, i just avoid them altogether, unless it is obvious that the bad guy rating is completely false.

Be prepared for more train wreck staring, it certainly makes you feel more intelligent than some, at least you're only reading the trash, not posting it!