My 14 year old son started playing football for his Catholic High School.

The boys use language and phrases that would have gotten my now adult children kicked out of school for even using outside of school or on social media.

White kids and black kids making jokes even about race, stereotypes, etc..... everyone laughs and gets along.

My son's best friend discovered George Strait music recently through the players taking turns on locker room music. He is a black kid. He wore boots, jeans, and a cowboy hat in the locker room that had a picture that said 'George Strait Is My N___a'.

A completely different experience from my older girls who had to walk on egg shells.

I have seen that since covid.

I love seeing it in my Gen Z boys. They are not afraid to be men and do manly ***** They are pissed off at what the libtards have done to our nation.

If you don't mind op, what is your age range? We had this discussion the other day at lunch and we were in agreement that kids these days were acting a lot more like we were in the 90's and early 2000's. We were cool with everyone, and we ragged on each other like we were our biggest enemies. To this day, nothing comes close to those friendships built in locker rooms, and we couldn't have been a more diverse group.

I have heard kids say r***d and dropping f bombs on obviously straight kids lately. I am happy we are moving back towards a happy medium. The reason I asked your age was because maybe enough parents have said, eff it. We want our kids to have a childhood like ours and they aren't playing the games anymore.

ETA: one of our theories was it was mostly Gen X. Then you had us millennials that had older siblings and were in the older half of millennials that acted like this. Another random point I brought up was that my age group was the last to play outside. Like every generation before us, we were outside 24/7 in summers as kids, but that died between my little brother and me. His generation of friends never once met at the park, climbed fences, or anything we would recognize as kid summer life . He is only four years younger than me. Those free AOL CD's were all those kids were after.

TacosaurusRex said:

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If you don't mind op, what is your age range? We had this discussion the other day at lunch and we were in agreement that kids these days were acting a lot more like we were in the 90's and early 2000's. We were cool with everyone, and we ragged on each other like we were our biggest enemies. To this day, nothing comes close to those friendships built in locker rooms, and we couldn't have been a more diverse group.

I have heard kids say r***d and dropping f bombs on obviously straight kids lately. I am happy we are moving back towards a happy medium. The reason I asked your age was because maybe enough parents have said, eff it. We want our kids to have a childhood like ours and they aren't playing the games anymore.

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This is where I am. I'm 50. My HS kids have been telling me for a few years that anything goes these days. At home, we don't dance around race, religion, etc. We're not disrespectful, but play on stereotypes and it is in good fun. They both have good senses of humor. I have said for quite some time, but I think kids are coming around and things will get sorted out in due time.

My catholic school had nuns with rulers and Christian brothers bigger than NFL lineman.

My younger son is in his mid-twenties and he and his friends are still very careful about the language they use, even around each other. He used to have such a "South Park" sense of humor about everything before wokeism did it's damage. I was visiting him in Canada recently and made a joke about ICE which he kind of chuckled at but asked me not to make those kind of jokes around his friends. His age group was heavily affected by woke propaganda, sadly.

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My younger son is in his mid-twenties and he and his friends are still very careful about the language they use, even around each other. He used to have such a "South Park" sense of humor about everything before wokeism did it's damage. I was visiting him in Canada recently and made a joke about ICE which he kind of chuckled at but asked me not to make those kind of jokes around his friends. His age group was heavily affected by woke propaganda, sadly.

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well that sucks

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Yeah, my ex is Canadian and my sons love the natural beauty as well as the skiing and rock climbing up there. I was on Vancouver Island and it is pretty much the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the locals are quite liberal for the most part.

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If you don't mind op, what is your age range? We had this discussion the other day at lunch and we were in agreement that kids these days were acting a lot more like we were in the 90's and early 2000's. We were cool with everyone, and we ragged on each other like we were our biggest enemies. To this day, nothing comes close to those friendships built in locker rooms, and we couldn't have been a more diverse group.

I have heard kids say r***d and dropping f bombs on obviously straight kids lately. I am happy we are moving back towards a happy medium. The reason I asked your age was because maybe enough parents have said, eff it. We want our kids to have a childhood like ours and they aren't playing the games anymore.

ETA: one of our theories was it was mostly Gen X. Then you had us millennials that had older siblings and were in the older half of millennials that acted like this. Another random point I brought up was that my age group was the last to play outside. Like every generation before us, we were outside 24/7 in summers as kids, but that died between my little brother and me. His generation of friends never once met at the park, climbed fences, or anything we would recognize as kid summer life . He is only four years younger than me. Those free AOL CD's were all those kids were after.

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Gen X. Grew up 80s and early to mid 90s.

GP and Arlington area.

Arlington Bowie grad.

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He's a Marine so he gets at least half his humanity back just for that.

Hoorah.

let me know when they start telling ****** jokes and dead baby jokes. Then I'll know that testosterone is back in charge.

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I love seeing it in my Gen Z boys. They are not afraid to be men and do manly ***** They are pissed off at what the libtards have done to our nation.

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Gen Z and manly do not belong in the same sentence.
Sounds like you raised yours right despite how much the odds are stacked the other way.

Man, now I feel bad. I this was an 80's kid thing. You called your best friends f** and r*****. Hell, I still do it with my friends. Don't I feel even more immature than normal.

Many of them are being raised by a generation that grew up on blazing saddles, all in the family and the Jeffersons.

The group of comedians led by Rogan, hinchcliff and others has saved comedy and taught that generation how to laugh again.

I have been mildly surprised at the casual race humor among my boys and their friends of other races. They are in high school. Mostly these are Asian jokes made by the Asian kids but there is some of that with the few black kids as well. The adults at the school are still very uptight about race jokes and I keep warning the boys never to say any of that stuff around the faculty.

Gen X, by far the best generation, and we're passing on all our "**** yous" to our kiddos.

I have a 21- and 18-year-old sons (GenZ) They, likewise, have disdain for political correctness and joke amongst themselves about race, stereotypes, and whatnot.

My 10-year-old daughter whose generation is significantly different from my boys, on the other hand, has come home sharing with my wife and I absolutely filthy things that boys are saying.

Things that can only come from society being inundated with pornography.

I find it hard to believe any school would let a student wear a t-shirt with the words N__G-A, spelled out or not.

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I find it hard to believe any school would let a student wear a t-shirt with the words N__G-A, spelled out or not.

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The school keeps a Pantone color matching chart handy to determine who is allowed to do so.

My son and his friends aren't PC at all. He's always outside and fishing. Sunday he went down to the Jetties and caught a few reds so it's great to see how he's growing up.

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My son and his friends aren't PC at all. He's always outside and fishing. Sunday he went down to the Jetties and caught a few reds so it's great to see how he's growing up.

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That's where one of mine is right now. Been crazy about any kind of fishing since he was about four years old.

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If you don't mind op, what is your age range? We had this discussion the other day at lunch and we were in agreement that kids these days were acting a lot more like we were in the 90's and early 2000's. We were cool with everyone, and we ragged on each other like we were our biggest enemies. To this day, nothing comes close to those friendships built in locker rooms, and we couldn't have been a more diverse group.

I have heard kids say r***d and dropping f bombs on obviously straight kids lately. I am happy we are moving back towards a happy medium. The reason I asked your age was because maybe enough parents have said, eff it. We want our kids to have a childhood like ours and they aren't playing the games anymore.

ETA: one of our theories was it was mostly Gen X. Then you had us millennials that had older siblings and were in the older half of millennials that acted like this. Another random point I brought up was that my age group was the last to play outside. Like every generation before us, we were outside 24/7 in summers as kids, but that died between my little brother and me. His generation of friends never once met at the park, climbed fences, or anything we would recognize as kid summer life . He is only four years younger than me. Those free AOL CD's were all those kids were after.

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I see a lot more teens, pre-teens and kids playing unsupervised out here in Cypress than I did when we were actually living in the city of Houston. I NEVER saw that in Heights/Oak Forest area. Never.

I regularly see kids fishing together, riding around in golf carts or ATV's, riding bikes or e-bikes/scooters (can you imagine having these ini the 80's?). Gives me a little hope. That being said, this dies down during the summer significantly. I feel like we were much more heat-tolerant back then than kids are now.

I am with you, I was born in 81 and that is how we were raised, and it was awesome.

Non-Election years afford various deviant behavior like described above.

Ensure your son doesn't participate... at least doesn't get videoed and doesn't post on SM.

There is your warning.

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Man, now I feel bad. I this was an 80's kid thing. You called your best friends f** and r*****. Hell, I still do it with my friends. Don't I feel even more immature than normal.

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This! I'm an old, but if my friends weren't constantly insulting me and vice-versa then everyone knew something was wrong.

I'm sure the majority of this board is Gen X. We remember a childhood of freedom, danger, "Blazing Saddles", "Porky's", fist fights, knowing words don't hurt, general chaos and didn't have parents hovering over us all the time. Crap we were told not to be home until dinner time.

We remember gas lines and then we remember this strange thing called pride in our country as we came out of that era. We saw the insanity that crept into all areas of our society in the mid to late 90s. It was in some areas before but nobody talked about it. We didn't care about color of skin and then we started being told how whites were the bad guys and that it was ok to hate people because of their skin color. Magically everyone started becoming a victim.

Raising our kids most of us have fought back against the perversion of the American dream.

Raising them to love God, Family and Country. Teaching them that at times those last two have to shift spots because of certain needs that are greater than ourselves.

Also raising them to not take **** from anyone.

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I find it hard to believe any school would let a student wear a t-shirt with the words N__G-A, spelled out or not.

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It was in a locker room after school hours..... not during the school day.

The school requires uniforms. So no - would not be allowed walking the halls.

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I find it hard to believe any school would let a student wear a t-shirt with the words N__G-A, spelled out or not.

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It doesn't have the hard R at the end. So it's cool, fam.

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I have been mildly surprised at the casual race humor among my boys and their friends of other races. They are in high school. Mostly these are Asian jokes made by the Asian kids but there is some of that with the few black kids as well. The adults at the school are still very uptight about race jokes and I keep warning the boys never to say any of that stuff around the faculty.

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My kids are grown now but they went to a predominately Asian/Indian school. The race humor was VERY one-sided there -- the Asian kids would make jokes at their white classmates' expense but the reverse was never true.

Most people in sports don't care about color. Teams have diversity. It's the professionals that are getting paid....aka USAID.

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TacosaurusRex said:

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If you don't mind op, what is your age range? We had this discussion the other day at lunch and we were in agreement that kids these days were acting a lot more like we were in the 90's and early 2000's. We were cool with everyone, and we ragged on each other like we were our biggest enemies. To this day, nothing comes close to those friendships built in locker rooms, and we couldn't have been a more diverse group.

I have heard kids say r***d and dropping f bombs on obviously straight kids lately. I am happy we are moving back towards a happy medium. The reason I asked your age was because maybe enough parents have said, eff it. We want our kids to have a childhood like ours and they aren't playing the games anymore.

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This is where I am. I'm 50. My HS kids have been telling me for a few years that anything goes these days. At home, we don't dance around race, religion, etc. We're not disrespectful, but play on stereotypes and it is in good fun. They both have good senses of humor. I have said for quite some time, but I think kids are coming around and things will get sorted out in due time.

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A bit of a warning:

Your laptops, cell phones, ipads, alexa's and other technologies are actively listening and recording you in your home.

I am skeptical the swing away from wokeism is for the long term. Look at how much Trump has done that is NOT codified into law, just EOs.

See how the UK is treating thought crimes. I can see that coming back, and your data will be out there forever to be used against you.

Just be careful.

I saw a tumped over portojohn last week. havent seen one since pre covid. We're going to be alright

Insert meme of atlas holding up the world that says "freedom of speech" and on Atlas it says "people who still say gay and ******ed"