# Why are so many people my age this stupid? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346 "2002-07-04T11:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RZA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@RZA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RZA)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/1 "2002-07-04T11:31:03Z")
Jesus Christ, check this shit out. [Some people are so fucking stupid.](http://www.isonews.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83963) This was posted at the forum of a games site I frequent. It may not be a big deal, but it just shows the mindfucked mentality of some people, most of whom are probably about my age (I’m 16). “Anyway. I think it’s the biggest bullshit in the history of mankind. “Oh, we feel this way”, “Oh, we were born this way”. Fucking bullshit. The guys who can’t get chicks turn out to be gay. And in response to the quote above, if you creat your children the right way, they won’t turn out gay. Fuck’em faggots. Burn them all.” “I love how the first people to defend faggots are the same pretentious motherfuckers who think they are the only intelligent people in the world because they watch shitty indie movies. you’d be the first person to make fun of some guy renting the latest action flick down at blockbuster, fucking hypocrites.” “In my eyes, homosexuality is a sexual perversion. They (gay males) like doing it in the butt with other gay males. Other people like to shit into their cockholes. Don’t they deserve a parade?” “Male ‘Bum Fuckers’ should be either castrated or killed.” I don’t know how some seemingly smart people can turn out to be so insanely stupid. Goddamn. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/2 "2002-07-04T11:44:31Z")
Betcha ten bucks this is going to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/3 "2002-07-04T11:50:00Z")
I’ll see your ten bucks, **Cougarfang** an’ raise ya another ten. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/4 "2002-07-04T11:54:22Z")
On second thoughts – I just bet against you, didn’t I? Darn this late-night posting habit! I reckon th’ bet’s worth 20 for th’ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/5 "2002-07-04T12:11:12Z")
Yeah, Pit city. And I read the thread you linked to, RZA. What can I say: welcome to the Straight Dope, where things are, uh, different. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/6 "2002-07-04T12:15:59Z")
For the record, **RZA** , it has nothing to do with them being your age (I have a feeling some of those posters are 40 year olds living in their momma’s basement), and it has nothing to do with them being gamers. Message boards, especially unmoderated ones, attract losers without the social skills to have real world friends. They like to pretend that everyone reads what they say, when most people have them on their bozo filter. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/7 "2002-07-04T12:32:12Z")
If it makes you feel any better, it seems to me that 16-year-olds, and people in general, these days are a hell of a lot less homophobic than they were 20 years ago when I was 16. There are still way too many yahoos out there, but it was a hell of a lot worse when I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/8 "2002-07-04T12:44:17Z")
It’s got nothing to do with your age. Plenty of older folks feel the same way, they just express it in different words. Having said that, I greatly appreciated this little gem of articulateness from the linked message board: > [@](#): > > “being” gay is a sexual disturbance or perversion and races is a total fuckin different genetic whatever thing. Whatever the hell that means. ---
**Author:** ![misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/9 "2002-07-04T17:16:26Z")
after i stopped laughing… the sad thing is, those are the people i went to high school with. in all seriousness. or, well, at least, SOME seriousness. maybe not literally the same ones, but damn, did i know a few of those… where i’m from, it’s common practice to accuse girls with short hair of being lesbians. not that they were always that far off, but god, what a witchhunt. something like the Red Scare, i’d be willing to bet. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/10 "2002-07-04T17:19:17Z")
The funny thing is that, contrary to the assertion of the moron that RZA quotes in his OP, many gay guys are better at attracting women than straight guys could ever hope to be. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/11 "2002-07-04T17:47:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*The funny thing is that, contrary to the assertion of the moron that RZA quotes in his OP, many gay guys are better at attracting women than straight guys could ever hope to be. \*\* Sing with me! “I wish I was queer, so I could get chicks…” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/12 "2002-07-04T20:10:09Z")
Dig guys that are queer, Guys that don´t dig chicks That don´t dig guys like me, See I´m not queer I´m too ug **ly** … [sub](Disclaimer: straight guys are not ugly, much to my dismay - for example that excessively ambiguous madrileño boy I cruised last night.)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/13 "2002-07-04T20:18:00Z")
Dig guys that are queer, Guys that don´t dig chicks That don´t dig guys like me, See I´m not queer I´m too ug **ly** … [sub](Disclaimer: straight guys are not ugly, much to my dismay - for example that excessively ambiguous madrileño boy I cruised last night.)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/14 "2002-07-04T21:13:49Z")
HOLY SHIT! I’ve never seen such stupidity. > [@](#): > > u no what the worst thing is that qweer that was allowed to go to the christian prom when christianity clearly bans gays from entering the church. > > if i was the pope i would tell the skool board off. > > gays are the start of the extinction of man kind. there disease will spread then one day in about 1000 years everyone willl be gay and they will be unable to reproduce because they are scared to mate with the opposite sex. so everyone will then die one after another. > > dammmit y do we have to have these freakin gay parades there is another one going on in downtown toronto ahhhhhhhhh THE STUPID! IT BURNS LIKE FIRE! ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-so-many-people-my-age-this-stupid/117346/15 "2002-07-04T23:23:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by airdisc \* > \*\*THE STUPID! IT BURNS LIKE FIRE! \*\* 😃 thats hilarious 😃 Anyway, yeah the people on your board are a bunch of homophobic bigots. So what? Theres not much you can do. Just keep in mind that there are quite a number of 16 year olds who aren’t homophobic bigots. One day those kids will crawl their way out of their parents basement, see the sun for he first time and realize that theres more to life than computers and assumptions about people they’ve never met. Just ignore them, eventually evolution will filter them out 😉 . Wearia