I hardly ever go to chat and when I'm there I'm the most boring of lumps.
Of course I've been around, seen and done everything twice just to make sure that the first time wasn't an aberration. I don't talk about all that because we've got a whole lot of kids here and 2010 is way different than 1979. You can't be a man slut and get away with it anymore. The world has changed and has been very unkind to those who have failed to change with it.
As adults we have a responsibility to be responsible. We make the space that we live in. If we want respect we must be respectable. If we want to have a healthy community we have to contribute towards that end.
Everywhere you go you can find 40 year old adolescents and 50 year old leaches; the dirty old man is almost a cultural archetype that permeates that gay community. It leads to ugly generation gaps and bad feelings between the different generations of gay people.
We don't need that here. The kids don't want it, the site doesn't need it and only serves to harm the entire community.
Too the adults in our community I ask that we strive to be better than that, to do better than that and to be and provide the leadership and experience this community needs.
We have something quite unique here and it benefits us all greatly- especially those of us who live in places where there isn't a community that we can call our own.