Just because you feel that, doesn’t make it true.
There’s no real difference between boomers and anyone else. Still using the same wetware as every other human for 10k years.
There will be rapey boomers, rapey gen x, rapey millenials and rapey gen z.
For example, Andrew Fucking Tate and his regressive masculinity bollocks is extremely popular all over
Nearly eight in ten 16-17 year-old boys in the UK have watched Tate’s content
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/anti-toxic-masculinity-movement
as someone who lives in the UK, seeing Andrew Tate’s influence on kids is really depressing. those kids are gonna grow up as assholes not knowing any better
Yeah… but I think the question is: if Andrew Tate didn’t exist, how many of those assholes would be balanced well adjusted men. Not many.
good point
When I was younger, I looked up to a guy who was a piece of shit like Andrew Tate. I started acting like him and treating people poorly. I lost good friends and relationships. I realized that I was losing them because I was being a piece of shit. So I stopped.
I guess my point is, even if someone is a piece of shit after looking up to Andrew Tate, they’re not hopeless.
PS: that guy ended up getting a girl pregnant accidentally. No idea where he is now, but I hope he’s not being a piece of shit to his kid.
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this made me want to game end
Lol, those kids are funny. They’ll be alright.
Just because some statistics show something like
Nearly eight in ten 16-17 year-old boys in the UK have watched Tate’s content
Doesn’t mean that every single one of those views were done in the same way.
I watched some crazy shit when I was 16 but I didn’t think Faces Of Death was anything more than entertainment.
You could just read the article I linked
Nearly eight in ten 16-17 year-old boys in the UK have watched Tate’s content, according to a survey by the anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate, with just over half viewing him in a positive light.
The difference is what was considered acceptable. My father in law (who is an asshole) told a story about how they would make comments to a woman he worked with about her boobs. This was in the 70s. She didn’t have much choice but to put up with it. There was no HR to go to, or they wouldn’t care. So they kept doing it.
Nowadays people are a lot more cautious at work. I know it’s just one setting, but that’s a great example how things have changed generationally.
Not commenting on people’s appearance at work is an 80/90s thing.
Yup. Just to emphasize the point – the term “sexual harassment” didn’t exist in the 1960s as a legal term. It only really came about in the mid-1970s as a result of feminist lawyers applying ideas from civil-rights law to gender and the workplace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment#Etymology_and_history
Maybe try not to make such sweeping generalisations.
You take weird showers my friend.
Took me a full sixty seconds to understand how OPs post made you think about a shower before I realized which community this was smh
That was specifically hippies, who strongly tend to be pacifistic and egalitarian. Find an old hippie that kept the philosophy, they’re interesting to talk to. Pre-marital sex among the general population did increase thanks to new and readily available forms of birth control, but I’d expect that people in the '90s were probably having more casual sex than people in the '60s. Remember, hippies were a minority.
As a tail end boomer, I spent the 60s watching sesame street, Hanna Barbara cartoons and attending kindergarten classes.
If you spent a decade attending kindergarten classes, then you may have an issue.
… said the person who wasn’t there.
My grandparents met in the 60’s and I don’t think it was forced
