[LuvFreeRepublic]

No it not new, but it is acceptable and encouraged by far more today than in the past. Go read the lyrics of rap music. Go view the interaction between men and women. It is hip to trash a woman and it is hip to be trash. My crudeness was in response to the attacks made because a FReeper dared to offer a comment that others found objectionable. The attacks were personal, when in all likelihood, they do not know enough about her to pass that kind of judgment. I also wonder how so many can be certain of the motives of not only the female in the article, but the male.

[ctdonath2]

Such has been complained of youth throughout human history. Modern social crudeness as you describe was well-depicted by Aristophanies several millennia ago. The only thing new is your personal awareness of it.