This has “progressed” since the 90s and 2000s, due to integration of more casual and more women friendly games such as SimCity, but in the FPS competitive scene, due to the presence of many many young men, the “hardcore” element in the culture has been preserved for the sub culture.

Testosterone is shown in gaming by how some people take badly to losing, such as going into a rage. This is a hormonal activation, since the body sees no difference to dying in a ladder game match vs dying in real life. So when you lose the game, and got nothing to focus your dexterity on, it turns into anger as a relief valve.

People who go through years of this conditioning, whether male or female, will tend to grow a very thick set of armor and skin, to the point where they are almost like veterans with thousand yard stares. They just won’t care what people say at that point.

This is opposed to people brought up in high school, USA social ladders, and social media like MySpace. There, your survival and rank depended on your ‘hotness’ or your ‘popularity’. Not on your skills at killing people.

It would be wise to look up the dating and sexual prohibitions of the Amish, Jehovah Witnesses, and Latter Day Saints.

This is one region where organized religion has an ace up the hole compared to all the Playboys with something else in a hole.

The Leftist social revolution was not for liberty, that was just the lie the Lucifer faction said to persuade people. It was to obtain more sex slaves for free. That was the “free” part, and the slaves were the “it’s for the children” part.

Oh, it is definitely for the children that they did so.

Cults use orgies to create reliance on the group, group think, mass obedience, and collective discipline. Look up various New Left revolutionary groups like Weather and the various “Liberation” armies.

The Leftist alliance gathered much of their mind control program from Verbal-Linguistics, Neural Linguistic Programming, Regressive hypnosis from psychologists, and rhetoric.

There is also what is known now as Trauma based mind control. This was likely due to Operation Paperclip and the importation of various research groups that utilized such methods. These techniques proved very useful for the Deep State later on.

Boys tend to use the technology for games, but girls use social media to get feedback and to build social groups.

The usual communication while gaming competitively in multiplayer is:

1: You fing retard dumbass, you should have killed that guy sooner.
2: Hey, you noob, I got more kills than you, so stfu and sit down, what u mad about.

So women that enter the gaming world, tend to have a difference upbringing, as it trains them that only their SKILL matters, not so much their trash talking skills, as people usually do not use voice. And without voice, people can’t tell your gender, so basically you are in disguise and only your skill and rank matters to your social ladder.

I am 73 this year also, I am blessed to have three grown children, the youngest turns 40 this year, all married with reasonable conservative family values and working hard to raise good children.

Between 1963 when I went off to college as a Freshman and 1972, after four years of college and four years military, I was married with a baby son going to grad school and the world had turned upside down as far as college kids dating and partying, I was just an observer but those years were a civilization shift that has reverberated for the past 50 years.

The genie came out of the bottle and it appears that a conservative trend is trying to occur with a mis-mash of rules and conventions, a need for moral guidance and very little religious constraints and mores and stuff like that we used to study in anthropology.

Neo, your readers know more about this stuff than I and as each year passes I seem to understand less about our culture. As a good friend of mine who passed away just before the 2016 election said, “The stuff happening now is the most interesting, strange stuff I have seen in my life time.” and he missed the election by two weeks. He would also have been 73 this year, another stranger in our own land.

Thank you Neo and Dennis for helping me try to handle these changing times.

While I did enjoy it overall, it was still somewhat painful in that it is really annoying when the interviewer constantly interrupts and talks over his or her guest. (…never mind the consistent misrepresentation of what he actually said.)

Phil Donahue used to do that and it would sometimes make me want to throw something at the TV while shouting: “Shut the hell up and let him answer the question!” (Of course, I haven’t watched someone like Phil Donahue in a very long time.)

That is also one of the reasons I seldom watch talk TV or listen to talk radio.

Griffin: Not keeping score
Yes, indeed. In some cases the kids know the score, but not always. When this nonsense got started in the UK, I explained to the in-laws about a six-a-side practice game being played where the losers had to do extra conditioning while the winner watched. My sister in-law was incredulous. I defended it saying, “It teaches a valuable lesson in life.” “What lesson is that?” “It pays to be a winner,” I replied. They were speechless.

Griffin: Social media
Jonathan Haidt’s idea is that social media has been particularly damaging to girls. Boys tend to use the technology for games, but girls use social media to get feedback and to build social groups. They become somewhat addicted to having their lives judged by others and to conform to the group. Further, boys tend to be hard on each other physically, while girls hurt each other psycho-socially, something that is easy to do with social media.

AesopFan: Peterson
I like that video. Others by Jordan Peterson speak directly to this issue. In particular, he’s outspoken about the need for children to play with each other to learn social skills.

I recommend this conversation between Peterson and Haidt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA
“The Perilous State of the University”
[Both men have first-hand experience with the hysteria that is taking place in colleges and universities.]

My favorite line:
The interviewer at one point during her fuming ranting tirade of deliberately misstating his words and beliefs (or else she is just very very stupid*) asks, “What gives you the authority to say these things?” to which Dr. P. replies with a perfectly straight face, “I’m a clinical psychologist.”
Second favorite: when he points out that the people who do misstate his positions aren’t listening to what he actually says, which she has demonstrated throughout her interview.
Third: when she insists that his free speech should be curtailed to avoid offending other people, and he points out that she has spent the entire show offending him.

https://youtu.be/aMcjxSThD54

*In the interest of gender equality, I have heard many male interviewers exhibit the same behavior.

The loss of privacy, modesty, humility and about a hundred other virtues have been accelerated to warp speed by social media in recent years.

What it has done to the emotional health of so many people far outweighs the ability to see photos of your grandkids I would say.
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Started sooner than that — link via PowerLine
(Peter Hitchens about “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” breaking down the wall between civilized society and the gutter.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/02/chatterley-on-trial