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An 18 year-old MAN who likes “My Little Pony”? Oy,vey.

It's not my way to question a man's interest, be it hunting or gardening.

The thing is, I don't recall any 18 year old males who were into Pound Puppies. Do you?

Never knew any myself, but I'm referring to someone the age of the boy in the article. I did know a man who was a "Welcome Back Kotter" fan. Even had the action figures mint-in-box.

Reading this thread and the article which occasioned it, I'm not surprised that so many young men behave as though they never came in contact with testosterone.

I always question that sentiment. Reminds me of my father, who I never cottoned much to. "MEN don't do track, they do football." "MEN don't cook, that's woman's work." "MEN don't use computers. That's for nerds. REAL MEN work with their hands." "MEN don't read books, they go hunting." So on and so forth. Well, call it a difference of opinion and leave it at that.

No idea where you grew up but where I did the vast majority of the teasing (they call it bullying these days) was from friends.

Grew up in Georgia. Most teasing came from my family. I made sure to repay it seven for one. Friends of mine didn't tease. If they did, they quickly ceased being friends of mine. I never took well to teasing. Everyone I ever knew who teased did so because as, at heart, they had a streak of cruel in them. I prefer not to know cruel people if I can help it.

It was rare for someone you didn’t know to say or do anything to you once you were out of first or second grade.

I can't say the same. I would see whole classes descend on some unfortunate in high school, for no reason other than they were an albino or wore especially thick glasses. It was sad and illustrated how mankind is by default selfish and cruel.

Wear something stupid and you were hounded all day even the teachers got in on the action.

I think you were in high school about 15-20 years before I was. A teacher engaging in such in my time (early 90s) tended to end up in front of the County Board of Ed and getting their butt fired.

Your post is a bit of a mishmash and somewhat hard to follow, combining your responses to multiple Freepers as you did. Rather than making us try to figure out what you're saying to whom, it's easier and better to respond separately to each post.

"The thing is, I don't recall any 18 year old males who were into Pound Puppies. Do you?"

"Never knew any myself, but I'm referring to someone the age of the boy in the article."

But you were responding directly to a Freeper's statement that her 18 year old son likes My Little Pony. It's just an interest, you said, and Pound Puppies were the thing back in your day. I pointed out that Pound Puppies fans were kids, not young men.

"I always question that sentiment. Reminds me of my father, who I never cottoned much to. "MEN don't do track, they do football." "MEN don't cook, that's woman's work." "MEN don't use computers. That's for nerds. REAL MEN work with their hands." "MEN don't read books, they go hunting." So on and so forth. Well, call it a difference of opinion and leave it at that."

Well, you can question whatever you like, but the fact remains that many if not most of the young men you see today look almost as feminine as the girls. We're in trouble when adult males are prancing and flitting around, gushing over cartoon ponies.

I feel sorry for decent young women like my niece, a gorgeous, down to earth Christian girl who loves nothing better than her guns and hunting. I don't envy her, being stuck with a pool of such weak, feminized pseudo-males.

Then again, this is the South. We grow real men down here, so her chances are somewhat better.