Navigating the Minefield of Modern Social Sensitivities

Remember when someone on TikTok dared to suggest gamers over 30 should retire their controllers? We leapt to the defense of every adult who's ever been shamed for their love of gaming in this no-holds-barred discussion on societal expectations and personal freedom. Our conversation extends far beyond the realm of video games, as we tackle how 'wokeness' has penetrated our daily choices – from whom we love to what we eat. We're dishing out a candid take on the importance of championing individual happiness and standing up against racism, all while navigating the choppy waters of social awareness without drowning in the judgment that often accompanies it.

The word 'woke' has become a battleground of opinions, and we're not shying away from the fray. Casting a critical eye on the contentious nature of woke culture, especially in the Southern U.S., we dissect its impact on everything from African American history education to the motives behind Hollywood's diversity efforts. With echoes of our own experiences, we reflect on the paradox of today's climate of cautious communication, contrasting with the pre-pandemic days of freer expression. We wrap things up by weighing the significance of our online personas in a world where every like, share, and comment can be as permanent as a tattoo on our digital lives. Tune in for an episode that's as thought-provoking as it is revealing, without an ounce of sugar-coating in sight.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

turning off normal human male mode. Switching to dad mode. Welcome in to dad mode with your hosts bearded nova and morph all right.

Speaker 2: 0:16

So I was watching. I was on tiktok the other day and there was this guy. He probably was in his all right, so I saw when he's early 30s, okay, and he started off saying hey, if you're over 30 and you're gaming, grow up all right. So and I got he was it wasn't kidding too right. I got mad. The comment section was lighting them up. What? What do you think about that?

Speaker 3: 0:45

I just hate your life all right, so I so I mean like I so actively going out looking all right, so all right, so all right. So yeah, are you gonna?

Speaker 4: 0:57

put.

Speaker 4: 0:57

I'm interested to know if this person's gonna post another video a month later so upset that, because he's sadly younger generation of fucking feelings here, where we got to be careful about everyone's feelings and I'm not all right. So I'm not against woke but at the same time I am against woke. It's a weird. I'm like this weird senior citizen moment where I'm on the on, I'm on the fence, I can be both, depending on the moment. Um, I think it's more of a don't get me involved, all right, so you do. You, I'm happy for you to do. You don't tell me what to do. So I'm interested to know if this is the same type of person that would post a video two months later saying why is everyone so mean to me?

Speaker 2: 1:39

all right, so it's it's.

Speaker 4: 1:40

I got that feel from them and then, then, be dead and, I think, feel them by, because I'm not a kid, so anyway, but then be depressed over the fact that they've got so much hate over something they've done.

Speaker 3: 1:52

It's like well, I do this.

Speaker 2: 1:55

I guess, all right. So to your point. I guess I don't get that. I don't want to make the episode about this, but I I don't get why people care what other people do if it doesn't impact you. You know, it's like in the us that one of the biggest things is you know, you know, gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married. Yeah, and it's like that's. Are they married you?

Speaker 4: 2:17

no well, shut the f up then yeah, that's, that's everywhere and that's yeah, no different. Here we have we have that as well, probably not as vocal. We don't seem as heavily religious. I guess there's religion. Christianity is the majority of religion, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 3: 2:36

But the two ain't left and right.

Speaker 4: 2:40

I guess they're not so hard against each other. They're more closer than you think. Not here, you can get married, all right. So everywhere in australia now, all right. So guys have rights to get married everywhere. Uh, obviously it took time, like it took a lot of time, but that was okay, okay. So I can't personally remember the date, um, but I want to say that that you know, that's past. Lots of people are happy, all right. So you, I know a lot of gay people, we both do all right so all right, so I'm happy.

Speaker 4: 3:14

I'm happy that people are happy, you know? I mean, that's that's my philosophy on life. It was I'm happy if you're happy, all right, so you know. And if I'm happy, just let me be happy um, all right, so it's all right, so I, so I so I so, I so the conversation around all right, so all right, so all right.

Speaker 3: 3:35

So it's like a if you're a vegan all right so you may be offended by this.

Speaker 4: 3:40

You may not. There's two types of vegans, the ones that are just all from something all right. So vegan or vegetarian, we'll wrap them into the same category here. You don't know the person. You go, hey, do you want this? And they go, oh sorry, I'm vegetarian, I'm big. And you go oh no, worries, all right, so go on your day. Then you've got the other one where you do this and then you get a lecture, all right. So all right. So you know what I mean.

Speaker 4: 4:06

So all right so that's the boundary for me. If you respect me from what I like to do, that's fine. All right so, and all right so I can respect you. But if you try pushing on what all right so you think I should do, all right, don Don't cross my personal boundary of what I'm allowed to think or say. I mean, I don't like to. I like to say that I'm not a racist. A joke that I've always made about racism is I hate everyone equally. Yes, you know. Yep, but I'm not. I stand up against racism. I have over the years, when I've seen it publicly, I have no problem saying Oi, stop being all right so people, whatever to yeah.

Speaker 4: 4:52

So I I'm very much for standing up for people. People as a child always grew up as I'm big enough to stand up for myself and I'm big enough to stand up for anyone else if they. If they don't feel comfortable standing up for them, I will stand up for them. All right. So if I feel like that's what they want, if they don't feel comfortable standing up for them.

Speaker 4: 5:05

I will stand up for them All right. So if I feel like that's what they want, if they they want someone to help, but then that's, that's me, but all right. So, yeah, that boundary cross. That's what I feel like this guy is. Screw him.

Speaker 3: 5:16

I can do what.

Speaker 4: 5:17

I want. Let me do what I want to do. Don't tell me all right.

Speaker 2: 5:25

So exactly, don't tell me. It's like in the us a lot of people, and maybe that's just the us, but everywhere all right. So we'll focus on the us. Is people all right? So all right so plain that they want freedom, but their idea of freedom is restricting other people's freedom to what they want that's what I've been trying to work out for months. Make it make sense, nova, make it make sense. I don't?

Speaker 4: 5:46

I don't. We just had an election the other month, more of a state election, local. It's just about mayors and councilmen voting for those people Don't have anyone in mind. I just kind of like the look of this person. I'll go with that Because I don't pay that much mind. I just kind of like the look of this person. I'll go with that Because I don't pay that much level to that level of politics. The mayors and councilmen, they don't really do that much for me. But in saying that while I was driving around it cracked me up.

Speaker 4: 6:19

I only had the conversation with some friends a week before was how a lot of media is now. Yeah, everything's invested. You need money to create anything. No-transcript to get investment, so you're finding all right so x-men 97. You got this woke state of things that weren't woke or things that didn't need to be changed. All of a sudden are being changed because that's what's expected. If they need the money, you need to do this or you need to do that, and I know probably over the next 10 years we'll probably see that settle back down again.

Speaker 4: 7:01

We're just in a in a period of our lives. Um, all right so, but the posters around this we had this conversation about. You know video games and you know lara croft being dulled down in her beauty, but she's not allowed to be attractive anymore because that's offensive. All right so.

Speaker 3: 7:17

All right, so it's all right, so in one area of my state.

Speaker 4: 7:23

We were all little say no to woke. It cracked me up like uh, you backwards people, I love it. I love you guys. This yeah, someone went around to do it, but all right, so that's all right.

Speaker 3: 7:38

So all right, so all right, so all right, so I said, I think this is a period.

Speaker 4: 7:42

It's a period. It It'll dull, everything dulls. We all go through different periods at times and eras and blots. At the moment we're writing this, it'll be like that for a while. Things will dull down. You're offended, you're offended. If you're not offended, you're not offended. The only thing you can do is just relax.

Speaker 2: 8:01

Just relax. I gotta say two things. One is a question. Yeah, so you're saying that laura croft not allowed to be uh, attractive anymore? They don't if you're telling me that you're referring to alicia vikander. I'm done here where I I'm. I'm done here because alicia vikander, with all due respect, all right so all right so a lovely person. Who are you talking about All?

Speaker 3: 8:23

right, so I just typed in.

Speaker 4: 8:26

I typed in new Lara Croft and the first thing Bing wants to tell me is every image is suppressed. And do I want to turn off adult imaging All?

Speaker 2: 8:35

right. So Hell yeah, I mean no, no, I mean I don't Actually I don't even know what that is, no, All right, so All right, all right, so all right.

Speaker 4: 8:43

So this is the redesign, all right. So in the game, the game the game redesign.

Speaker 2: 8:49

Okay, I you know what I loved the new games the new guys, but I have the re. I didn't read the originals yeah, but I love the renewal.

Speaker 4: 8:57

Oh, poor pointy toots, laura um, um, the, the new actual game at the market. They've had remasters of the original, all right. So yeah, they've redone her to a new, all right, so okay, and she's all right, so they remade the old ones they're remastered the old ones and they've they've changed her look dramatically, all right so all right so so Is she not top-heavy anymore? Not top-heavy. I'm trying to put this in a really nice way where I'm not going to sound like a Alright, so An arrogant asshole but.

Speaker 2: 9:40

By the way, no offense. Instead of looking at Discord now or videos, I'm just looking at.

Speaker 4: 9:45

Warcraft. Yeah, you see, they've just slightly changed their appearance and that was a part of the calling her Dan, to make her feel like you had that period of Angelina Jolie. You know what I?

Speaker 3: 9:59

mean she appeared to me the original one and then it had that, so all right.

Speaker 4: 10:02

So all right, so all right. So Angelina Jolie, you know what I mean. Yeah, she appeared in the original one and then it had that, it had so many women in video games, all right. So they're trying to look a particular way, I guess, yep, and they're kind of trying to back with that a little bit more, saying well, no, she doesn't have to be All right so. She a little bit more saying well no, she doesn't have to be. She doesn't have to be a stunning woman to be a hero.

Speaker 4: 10:30

There's a period of time. You know what I mean, yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:33

I'm going to change the topic because you mentioned Angelina Jolie and this is getting going down the road. I don't want to go down. Are we going to talk about hackers? People from my job and my family?

Speaker 4: 10:41

listening Are about hackers, the movie hackers. I'm being one of the best videos of movies of the early 90s yeah, uh-huh good, okay, I don't know that it was in anything else.

Speaker 2: 10:50

Um, all right. So what I was going to say is you're talking about woke and it's going to go down. So I here's my theory about this. First of all, in the us, when they say woke, they're usually referring to all right, so using it as critique specifically for African Americans. Really, they pretend that it's other things, but at the base it's usually like Florida or southern states way to criticize African Americans.

Speaker 3: 11:13

Really.

Speaker 2: 11:14

Alright. So yeah, I know it's veiled, but that's when you get to the root of it. That's what they're trying to talk about, because the only thing they're trying to stop are usually like teaching African American history, celebrating African, because the only thing they're trying to stop are usually like teaching african-american history, celebrating african-american holidays. It gets very targeted, but so and I hear, I hear that a lot like disney, like they're, they're remaking all these things like they just cast a new silver surfer, did that for the fantastic four movie. It's a woman, it's, it's, uh, oh, what julie um garner from uh, yeah she's been in a bunch of things.

Speaker 3: 11:44

Things.

Speaker 2: 11:44

So people are complaining, even though in the comics there is a female silver surfer.

Speaker 4: 11:48

There is. There is at one point.

Speaker 2: 11:50

But the thing about Woke is like in the movies which I do hear people use is I don't think it's so much about showing diversity because they want to be good corporate citizens. It's about expanding their demographics that want to watch the movies. That's what it is. It's about expanding their demographics that want to watch the movies. It's about generating more money. It's not about being good people or a good company. It's about making sure that they have this thing called a four quadrant when they look at movies. Who's going to see it? Young, old, male, female and other genders?

Speaker 2: 12:19

Yeah, but you've got to expand that it's not that anymore, as Marvel, Disney has been expanding gender, swapping some characters and adding in more female characters and queer characters. They're expanding their quadrants and ensuring that it's not just straight white men that are going to watch the movies, which gives them more money. It's not about them trying to be a good company.

Speaker 4: 12:43

No, no, no, no, no, that's what I mean. None of it's about be a good company no, no, no, that's what I mean. None of it's it's about being a good company. It's about trying to, it's about a personal image and it's about money. The whole thing, that's.

Speaker 4: 12:52

That's what irritates me the most, just because they irritate all right, so all right, so they might pick up a little bit, a little bit here or that, but then at the same time they're irritating more of what they've had before. At the same time, you know, I mean like so woke here means being more diverse, a little more okay, more forcing people to accept diversity all right, so in it, in it not

Speaker 4: 13:18

all right, so all right, so nice trying to figure out the best way to put it all right, so all right. So it's forcing you to accept things if you don't want to accept it. It's basic. It's going to piss off other people. This is great.

Speaker 2: 13:33

We'll get a lot of feedback, I know.

Speaker 4: 13:36

It's like two different religions going at each other. You know how you get the religious war. Yeah, it is like that. Basically, you've got people who are very narrow-minded and then people who are very expanded-minded and they want one or the other where there's people like ourselves which are happy to be in the middle and accept both sides. You know you want to be happy. You're happy, you're happy, you're happy. That's what work is. Here is more.

Speaker 4: 14:01

I don't know is more. I don't um, that's more around, like all right, so all right. So, mother's day not being a mother's day anymore, father's day not being a father's day anymore all right, so yeah, that is what they mean, yeah, all right, so, and so they do mean that here too.

Speaker 2: 14:18

But the root of it is comes from something. Yeah, no, no, we didn't. I did not know that. It's interesting because, like we said earlier, I don't know why it bothers somebody else if it doesn't affect you at all. If you live on one side of the country, why do you care that two men get married in California? Why do you care? When did it hurt you? How did that affect you at all? Settle down. Why do you care that two men get married in california, like? Why do you care? Yeah, yeah, where did it hurt you? When did how did that affect you?

Speaker 4: 14:47

at all. Settle down yoda. There was not a disturbance in the force all right, so all right.

Speaker 2: 14:53

So exactly, yeah, no that's all right so all right so when they had, when we had the pandemic and you had it, unfortunately, was broken between um political lines. One party was adamantly against them, one part of milly part one. One party was adamantly for them and it became a political thing.

Speaker 3: 15:17

Wearing a mask like all right, so all right.

Speaker 2: 15:22

So I, I know you during COVID, I don't really want to go there in this episode, but like what? And let me relate this back to what our normal kind of topic is it's getting really hard for me to teach the kit my kids. Like what's right and what's wrong. Yes, yes, because everything is so polarized out there yes, that's exactly right.

Speaker 4: 15:44

It is so hard to. I feel like some part of the way it's teaching me a little bit more about what the world is like, because they're coming home and explaining some things that I don't understand. I'm not saying they're wrong or anything like that. I don't understand it and I don't mind it when the kids go no, no, no this or that. I'm like oh okay then, but it's hard to be a parent. In a way I'm going to be a little bit sarcastic here.

Speaker 4: 16:18

hopefully we can still say parents until you know when you get the videos of people saying they want to sue their parents because they didn't ask to be born in this world and we're getting, we're getting too ridiculous, like alright. So let's just try and calm ourselves a little bit, let's try and ground ourselves, got it all right.

Speaker 3: 16:37

So let's just try and calm ourselves a little bit. Let's try, and all right, so all right, so all right, so round ourselves all right.

Speaker 4: 16:41

So in a way it's a yeah uh, all right, so gay trans rights all right, so all right so lgbtq. All right, so um all right, so I missed out everything that don't personally not involved, but I don't remember every acronym in that. To recite I'm 100% supportive of everyone in that. Just don't take anything out of it. You know what I mean when you go a little bit. Everyone, and I'm gonna say this every demographic, every minority, every all right, so every so all right so, and bad embarrassment?

Speaker 4: 17:28

yep, and as, sadly, it is always the negative, that reflects across the entire group yes, and we see that same narrative play out on social media too.

Speaker 2: 17:42

Changing gears, right all right so it's the negative comments, it's the negative postings that get the most attention and even though it's by far the minority, just like what you're talking about, it's what gets the headlines. Yeah, and you know, I used to get so frustrated with that bullshit. Yeah, and it's the same with regular society too. Yeah, all right, so it's frustrating and, like in regular society, you don't even have to all right, so prove anything. You just have to say something bad about someone or that they did something, and the public opinion is, yeah, okay, they did it. We don't have any proof, but yeah, somebody said it.

Speaker 3: 18:21

So, yeah, it's true, exactly all right, so all right, so all right, so it's all right, so all right.

Speaker 4: 18:28

so my friend poured it up to all right so said this I want to say 10 years ago, maybe a little bit closer to that All, right, so all right, so it's pretty COVID. Wait, wait for COVID, all right.

Speaker 4: 18:42

So, we went through a golden era of society, yeah, where humans had hit that peak of all right. So it was pretty, damn good, like everything was pretty. We were, we were, we were pushing boundaries, we were, had, were, we were pushing boundaries. We had this great time. We, you know so, uh, testing new waters with things and technology and advancements and life and and all these things. And then at some point we've just skipped in out of that golden period and we're starting to undo ourselves all right, so, all right, so all right, so, and I never.

Speaker 4: 19:16

I never thought about it all right so that before, like I I I admit I so used to say oh, this is a great time off, fantastic time, this is the best age of you know, the golden age of video games. Um all right so golden age of content. All right, so all right, so go. A great time to be alive. It's. It's good that I can go do this. It's great that I have this ability in my life. It's.

Speaker 4: 19:37

It's awesome that if we want to do this as a family, we can do this as a family, uh all right, so I do in a way, feel like some of that ground is slightly starting to go away, where I'm not as happy to say all right, so I can do all these things, that all right, so all right, so we're positive in a way, without being too afraid that I'm going to upset someone.

Speaker 4: 19:56

All right, so all right. So we're positive in a way, without being too afraid that I'm going to upset someone. All right, so yeah, and, as I said, my no means I want to upset anyone, but that's.

Speaker 2: 20:05

I'm constantly on eggshells to my life, personally, thinking hopefully I don't upset someone all right, so I want to be caught up in that all right so, and we have to think about, like you know, I'm I'm very liberal-minded, very socially liberal-minded, and you know, um, I have to think about, I'm very liberal minded, very socially liberal minded, but I have to think about that Constantly at work, when I go do anything With my kid at their school, and especially online, especially online.

Speaker 2: 20:32

Because you say the wrong thing at work, you're going to piss off one or two people. Maybe HR talks to you. That's probably the end of it. You say the wrong thing at work. You're going to piss off one or two people. Maybe HR talks to you. That's probably the end of it. Right, yeah, you say something wrong online. It goes viral. You lose your life, like you lose your job. You lose your friends. It's insane. One thing I used to talk a lot about when I had mentor classes for Elevated Media was your brand is you and every single thing you do, whether you want to believe it or not. Like, how many times did we hear about some big streamer from Twitch who somebody saved a Discord posting from six years ago and then released it just to hurt them? So, like everything you do online, there's going to be a record of it and it won't go away and it will surface at the at the wrong time just to bury you.

Speaker 4: 21:26

We talked about this topic very similar very early days in this podcast. It was with smash in a way, with about kids and entering the online space and like that's a that's a new thing. There's things I probably said and done way before the internet or could be recorded and things like that. Okay, all right, so we cool that.

Speaker 3: 21:46

You know all right, so all right, so all right, so all right, so I'm not religious, all right so I'm gonna throw myself in there.

Speaker 4: 21:54

There is a photo of me in the internet. I don't really care because I know it didn't hurt anyone. It was all in good faith. But for Halloween I went as the Pope.

Speaker 3: 22:04

Alright, so.

Speaker 4: 22:06

I had the Pope hat. I drove around Smoking cigarettes and Drinking. I went through McDonald's Drive-thru with my Sunroof open just so my Pope hat could hit out the front to order mcdonald's. You know, I mean, it's a good laugh all right, so all right.

Speaker 4: 22:23

So nowadays, I know I probably would have pissed off people, all right. So I'm doing that. You know I mean like it, all right. So what was funny at the time is not funny now. My intentions and I'm sure the people that hang on to this old posts and pictures of people in the past, their intentions possibly at the time and I'm not speaking for everyone, but you probably find their intentions are not what you think they were all right so yeah you know.

Speaker 2: 22:50

I mean you know all right. So a great lesson to teach your kids too and I know we've said this before, but it bears repeating is teach your kids not to take pictures or post stuff on social media that is going to come back and haunt them. Yeah, because even if they delete it, all right, someone's gonna screenshot it. Like, how many times do you see someone makes a tweet and they delete it, but someone in the meantime has screenshot it and they repost it like? You have got to be so careful. When you and I were growing up, this wasn't as big of a deal. You couldn't just record something publicly forever, no matter what happened. But now you can and I've said this before too. I hire people at my job and I do social media research on them and I find something that's suspect. No, I didn't stop at sus because I'm old.

Speaker 2: 23:44

I may not even give them an interview, but the.

Speaker 3: 23:47

Thing is.

Speaker 4: 23:49

I had the internet in high school. Yeah, it was dial-up. We had MIRC, irc, icq. You know I was in my peak teenage years of MSN coming out Like I was said to be the early adopter and ride that puppy as it being the main form of communication for a teenage youth. Even if you get a girl that you liked at high school and you message her on MSN, All right so. No one ever thought about screenshotting.

Speaker 3: 24:24

All right, so.

Speaker 4: 24:26

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:26

I mean, no one was actively out there to. Yeah, they didn't did they?

Speaker 4: 24:29

No, you don't come back and think about it. You never really heard about anyone screenshotting a message just to show or hurt or go after someone in a way. It was in a way, kind of all right, so all right, so we talked about it. If someone was an asshole to you on the internet in early days, you just deleted them. Go to their house, egg the house. All their parents are home. Um, hey, you there, but no, you just deleted it. All right, so you deleted it. You deleted it and you blocked them.

Speaker 3: 25:02

All right so, all right so yeah, uh, it's the same.

Speaker 4: 25:06

It says you weren't trying to be friends with everyone either on the internet. Back then you look at kids accounts on facebook. If the kids are still on facebook I know they're probably not, but I know younger people to me would have thousands and thousands of friends on facebook where I'd go through my friends list and it is people that I am actually friends with in person. I spent more than I'm not. I'm not friending someone that I met at one party or or a night out. I'm not friending that person unless I want an actual friendship with that person to be continued on. So the circle of mine online is very much people I want in my life or people that I want to see my life, whereas I see younger people kind of gravitated towards. I've got to add everyone, because that number of friends means something to some degree.

Speaker 4: 25:56

Uh all, right so all right, so kind of possibly could be a way that it undoes on themselves because they're friending people that they're friending people that they don't like in that same time people that don't like them are friending them all right so inappropriate reasons this is the best way to put it not not, yeah, yeah, they're purposely doing these friendships not to support you, not to be a friend. They're there to hopefully get something that you've done to make you look bad for something else all right.

Speaker 2: 26:26

So I mean the. The long story short here is you have to watch out at all times what's going on, what you say and if you're thinking, but why can't I just do what I want? This sounds like so much work and I agree with you it's a lot, all right, so it doesn't change the fact that it's true. Always assume, have a healthy paranoia, right. Always assume that someone out there who's trying to screw you over and you need to be very careful about what you do publicly, because it stays there forever. Even if you delete it, it stays there forever.

Speaker 3: 27:02

Yeah yeah. All right, so.

Speaker 4: 27:06

I'm going to end this one where it is, but I am going to say this edit will be different, because I'm actually going to have to just skim it. This one, I purposely, will actually look over to make sure I didn't offend anyone and eventually this video will be up on YouTube, because I just am lazy. They're all sitting there, dormant, ready to go, all right.

Speaker 4: 27:27

So, yeah, I did public block today. I do suggest that you find this one in the future on our YouTube channel and just skim through to see if I actually made it at it, because I don't know if I'm going to or not, but I'm just interested to know if I actually leave it roaring uncut or if there is something that I thought may have offended someone which I'm really confident. I'm hoping I haven't and if we have, I do apologize, but I never had the intention to upset anyone's feelings in today's episode all right.

Speaker 2: 27:58

So you, because you edit our, uh, all right, so your podcast is less edited than the youtube, right? No, they're the same it's the exact same.

Speaker 4: 28:06

The same, exact same video. Uh, the only difference nowadays is a new intro.

Speaker 2: 28:11

There's the audio has slightly shorter intro to the video, that's too many people were complaining about our 90 second, which I thought was amazing intro. He did a good job, but we've cut it. We've cut it. Hope you're happy, all right. So, oh, I thought all right. So if you have any feedback, any comments on this, definitely go ahead and hit us up on twitter at dad mode podcast.

Speaker 4: 28:38

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