You know it's strange... even though I move with the times and understand the need for changing ones attitude in relation to some things I still feel oddly out of place or out of touch with some things.. I was playing a word search game with Leelah on Friday night and I let her explain the rules to me and that we had to find the word and the person who found the most was the winner, you had to lay these coloured counters down once you found the word...
So we started off and she found 2 straight away which I assume she knew about in advance the little cheater.. Anyway, I proceeded to show no mercy after that and quickly took the lead and she told me it was unfair.. When I asked her why she told me that it makes the other person sad.. So when we did the next word I jokingly told her "Found It" straight away and she looked at me and said "Really" I then said no and that I was just joking and then she told me I couldn't do that either.. When I asked her why she said it's not fair to tease people.. Now I appreciate it's not fair to tease people based on looks, gender, size or disability etc which is good but they are sucking all the life out of harmless fun...
I think the older generation should be issued an 'Old Dude' card that we can wave about when we say something that might be considered out of turn and everyone has to just suck it up...