No shame in that. How would any of us know for sure if we don’t experiment?

I didn’t bang another dude until I was 33 years old. I learned that I liked it just as much as I like banging women.

Thanks for being vulnerable and sharing your story!

Maybe.

Again, I think there’s also just a lot of people that like to pile on downvotes to keep it going.

I never tried to justify it. I know it’s wrong. I’d argue that it’s not that bad a thing, especially 20 years ago when no 13 year old boy was being taught about the things we’re finally coming around to as a culture.

But whatever. Downvotes don’t really bother me.

I just hate the idea of the moral superiority some of these jabronis have when they’re not even understanding how the conversation got there.

There’s some data that supports people like to downvote simply because they see someone has already been downvoted.

Virtually none of them are lending a voice to the conversation, so I have to just assume it’s that.

Those that have lended their voice (e.g. you and maybe only one other) failed to make any valid points.

I was discussing women’s tennis with someone. I admitted to not knowing much about it, only having watched a little 20 years ago, and not having much interest in the sport.

That’s a very natural conversation.

Then a few clowns decided to get on their high horse and attack me for sharing my personal experience about the topic of discussion, in which I make no attempts to justify or excuse bad behavior. Again, the bad behavior of a child.

Now, because I took said clowns ammo away by admitting that my views were wrong at the time, they then attack me for essentially nothing.

Nah. You can miss me with that shit.

I’m using a social media platform that has videos of anal sex and people getting cut in half. Go wage your war elsewhere.

90% of comments in any given thread have absolutely nothing to do with the actual post. Mine, at the very least, was a response to someone else’s prompt. If you can’t see that, you need to work on your reading comprehension. Again, it’s a you problem.

It wasn’t. We were talking about a sport and the people involved.

I could see how you might think that if you isolated the one comment where I expressed this (and also acknowledged the flaw in it). But if you start at the beginning of the chain, You can see how not only was that not my intention when commenting on this thread, but you can also see how it got to that.

It’s called dialogue/conversation. It’s where one person says something and then another person says something and it can continue like that for as long or as little as the people involved wish.

I said something about Venus and Serena. Someone else said something about them. And I went on to acknowledge my ignorance.

At no point have I been particularly disparaging or offensive. The internet, and especially Reddit, is full of people admitting to fucked up stuff from their childhood. Most of it is unprompted. If you have a problem with it, it’s your problem, not mine. I suggest you get over it or figure out a way to avoid it in the future because I hate to break it to you, but you’re not going to like/agree with everything you see online.

I could see how a complete idiot might come to that conclusion.

But we were talking about women’s tennis. It’s not like a brought it up randomly in an unrelated thread. Nor was it even my opening comment. Simply a reply to a reply.

I’d ask if you could see the huge leap in logic there, but I know the sarcasm would be wasted on you.

Wow, is this your first day on the internet? You don’t know how social media works?

And what part of me saying that I was wrong for why I cared at all about a sport 20 years ago did you misinterpret as me “seeking praise?”

Yeah, God forbid someone own up for a mistake that they didn’t understand at the time.

I think the better question is why can’t people have some forgiveness when I admitted I was wrong/ignorant about something when I was a child?

I remember Venus being on Sportscenter, it seemed like every morning, but obviously was not. Serena was almost an afterthought back then. Crazy how Serena became the one to dominate the sport for as long as she did.

I had no idea she was still competing. I feel like Serena took all of her shine. I remember when Venus was the more dominant of the two but that feels like a lifetime ago.

I’d recommend a judo chop.