[coldtea]

Because it's fashionable and scores you some points...

If the inverse became fashionable in 10 years, the same kind of people (if not the same people) would do a 180o.

[azhu]

The nature of progress is movement relative to the position currently being held. I bet you're right that a lot of people are just thoughtlessly bandwagoning, but I bet the blanket dismissal of progressive attitudes also misses a lot of people who are thoughtfully deciding where to go from here.

[coldtea]

My point though was not about the progressive attitudes, as much as about the ridiculous excess ("guys" being offensive, etc). In a decade or so these would be viewed the same way most people viewed hippies after the 70s...