As has been said upthread:
Yes, I feel the same way about guys who are 40+ who consume sexualized media intended for teen guys (Britney Spears when she first came out, etc.).
Ok: tapout - super good friend and co-worker (barely older than me) just had a stoke and is paralyzed on his right side and I’m not up for good-natured ribbing right now.
I promise I will make an inane post prior to upcoming concerts where you can pummel me, rest assured. I’m literally devastated by this though.
Well, this is the thing—nobody wants to do that as much as you seem to.
Please, post about your friend and about being sad, and I promise many people will offer support in a way that is much more meaningful than these threads. As much as there is plenty to criticize about this place, people rally around posters they know and will offer suggestions and help and kind thoughts.
To the OP: I also bear a deep dislike of stubhub and other services like it. However I don’t like it because they promote and support the behaviour that rewards scalpers buying tickets they never intend to use and reselling them for a profit. I would support a system where tickets are assigned to an owner and changing that owner is a long and agonizing process which requires sworn statements witnessed by a notary and is still limited to a maximum number of lifetime changes.
I don’t have much sympathy for people who use services that are designed by their very nature to be exploitive and who then complain when they are the ones who get ripped off.
Tangent: while I completely agree with your post, the video game got me thinking. What if it was a 41 year old playing a board game? A card game? Chess? Is there something about the fact that a game is on a computer that makes it different from other games?
I think so. It annoys my husband when I’m on the computer for hours at a time. I asked him if it would annoy him if I was reading. He said no.
And, of course, he watches football on some days for 7 hours at a stretch, and somehow that’s perfectly okay.
Um…I’m 54, and I STILL play video games for hours each day.
Of course, I don’t watch TV on most days, which is why I have those hours free. But still…I do play video games.