[coldtea]

>Am I awful? Can you take one look at a forum post I made in the late 90s and judge me entirely?

The opposite. I'd judge anybody judging a person from a 90s forum post as awful scum themselves.

>Is it okay what he did? No, of course not.

Yes it is. It's not even that controversial. Men and boys, whether one is woke or not, have some different characteristics, age, maturity, strength, etc, being some of them. That was the purpose of the analogy, which was, and remains, a common idiom across the globe.

Is it okay for 2019 people of a particular (woke) subset of a particular (Anglo-Saxon) culture to impose whatever latest retrospective moral panics they have on everybody? No. For one, that's cultural imperialism...