Most Active Threads of the Weekend

I am going to try to continual this series of posts since I kind of have fun writing them. For Monday, I'll look at the most active threads over the weekend. Looking back at the posts over the past two days, we really see the eclectic nature of the forums.

Leading in the number of replies and second in the number of views was a thread in the "Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)" forum titled, "Our elementary school canceled Halloween". This topic which seems to appear at least once every Fall discusses the cancellation of a Halloween parade by an unnamed elementary school. While I haven't read the entire thread, a brief skim of it shows that such cancellation has both opponents and supporters. However, as often happens in such discussions, several posters seized the opportunity to make larger points. Posters with completely opposite perspectives both claim the action proves their previously held viewpoints.

The thread with the most number of views over the weekend was titled "DH spent $700 on a dinner last night" in the "Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)". I only read the first post of the thread which describes the poster's spouse spending $700 on a dinner with his parents. The poster considers this is an expense that should have been discussed beforehand and asks advice on how to address this situation.

A thread that was second in number of replies and third in number of views was also in the "Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)". Titled "Thoughts on the 'other woman'?", the original poster used reactions to the revelation that Adam Levine, lead singer and guitarist for Maroon 5, had an extramarital affair to discuss where fault for such an affair lies. Based on the poster's observations, "younger millennials and Gen Z" tended to consider the "other woman" a victim with fault being entirely on the part of the married Levine. The poster argued that, instead, both parties should be considered at fault. Once again, I haven't read the thread so I can't say anything about the ensuing discussion. But, a pet peeve of mine is the now common ascription of behaviors to entire generations. So many DCUM threads use "boomers", "millennials", or Gens X or Z to generalize people of a wide range of ages (age ranges which often can't even be agreed upon) and with vastly different lived experiences as if they are all the same. In my view, this is lazy and inaccurate stereotyping.