• Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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    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

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      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

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.