I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.

  • Triasha@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Go back to 80’s movies and look at the casual sexism.

    Don’t tell Mom the babysitters dead. The oldest sister is 17, gets an office job. She has a late thirties-mid forties man creeping on her for half the movie. It’s played for laughs. This was a kids movie.

    Early 2000s it was less overt, but still widespread. I watched girls get harassed on the school bus, nobody spoke up. I watched women get harassed and groped during my first fast food job. I didn’t have the courage to speak up.

    I dodged it by virtue of not having transitioned or even knowing I was trans yet.

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      4 hours ago

      I tried watching Dukes of Hazzard out of nostalgia…

      Sheesh it’s a LOT worse than I recalled