Ha, I think the culture of the offended is out of control right now, it's for that reason that I leave my strong opinions to be expressed in person rather than online.
It's especially weird because, when the internet started to become social, there was nothing like that here. I think that the people who stay on the internet the most, socially, are the most likely to be outcasts. As such, the internet becomes more populated by "social outcast perspective"; on the internet, they are dominant, but in daily life you hardly ever see them. However, since the internet is so powerful as a social device, I think more and more people have come to be affected by this minority opinion, giving it more mindshare.
The internet's outrage is a weird thing to watch from the side-lines. I just didn't want to give the impression I was "telling you how to parent your child," in scare-quotes. Unsolicited advice is... well, unsolicited. The trend seems to be that people go about their lives holding their polarized opinions but acting outwardly pleasant until someone steps on something they feel strongly about and the floodgates open. One never knows when or what subject might trigger this land-mine. I try to get ahead of that stuff in case I hit a sore area, and since we've known each other in this Smash community for some time now (albeit in the online sense) I'd prefer to keep on good terms. Just my standard operating procedure, even if I know you're less likely to be "offended."
I'm pretty much impossible to offend. I am actually irritated at work when students are "inappropriate" because I know I am supposed to be offended and teach them social propriety, but I'm unfazed. Never hesitate to be blunt and honest with me.
This is a strange time to be born. So much is changing, so much may change in the future, and not in the way futurists expect. There are so many things pushing and pulling on kids. I'm honestly not sure how kids today go about having the formative experiences that happened before cell phones and 24/7 parental supervision. I don't mean parental supervision in the "when I was young, we played on the train tracks and we turned out fine" way, but that I had moments where I was alone with friends and they wanted to do something that I knew I shouldn't do. It's in those moments when you know that an adult isn't there to stop you, that making a decision becomes a formative experience. Of course, I'm coming from the perspective of the kid that did what an adult would call the right thing. There's a possibility of it going the other way. But woe to the person whose first chance to do the wrong thing unsupervised is in college...
I haven't had this experience. I know it is a popular thought, and parents are more paranoid now, but I rather find that students are generally just more clueless. Less ability to work on their own, weaker social skills, and less of an attention span. They're more likely to know a YouTube star or meme than anything useful.
I was talking with an uncle-in-law of mine while I was in Europe about this, that this seems like a difficult world to grow up in. I was questioning if it's even a responsible act to have a kid. He said he'd had the same feelings 20 years ago, but they have a 12 or 13 year old daughter now and they're doing alright. So maybe I'm overthinking it. I expect I won't have to deal with the reality of that situation myself for at least another 5 years or so.
I think the world has always been difficult - you just have to learn to mitigate the dangers of the era you exist in.