The earth is melting, the GOP is destroying the economy, and DU is worried about boob jokes.

[countryjake]

150. I remember a time...

decades ago, now, when people were also deeply concerned about issues that mattered. We gathered, discussed, and planned mighty demos, organized ourselves to present effective protests on the inequalities, injustices, and outrages of that time. Afterward, at various steering committee meetings, during the sum-ups, sometimes a few would stand and simply ask, "Why must I be assigned to first-aid, child-care, food?" Leadership at those sorts of meet-ups generally did not have any good answers to such queries and normally ignored the questioners, moving on to more pressing agenda items. Over time, a certain pattern developed, and some people became rightfully pissed, but the main organizers didn't seem to care, instead choosing to ignore and eventually label those outspoken persons as side-trackers to the issues that really mattered. Oddly enough, other denigrating labels were also applied. Odd simply because these were all supposedly radical, conscientious people.

I am guessing that with this thread, by reading your statements on how to properly discuss "adult issues", that there are particular things that do not really matter a whit to you. However, others on this message board may and obviously, do, find certain principles, ideas, debates as necessary in the attempt to bring to bear an underlying crucial problem. You might not understand the roots of it, the way that seemingly minor inflections and attitudes, words and actions, could represent the basis of a perspective that effectively sustains oppression worldwide, but others do.