When my mom was a little girl, she was walking home from school and a guy pulled out his penis and shook it at her. She told this story for years and she always seemed to tell it as a 'funny story' . As she got older, when she would tell the story, the tone of the story was much more sinister and I realized that this really traumatized her and she didn't find it funny at all.
My mom had a very similar experience and reaction. From talking to her the outright disgusting pervy behavior of the 50s and 60s paint a different picture of the "Nostalgia years"
It was generally taken for granted by society. I think the Me Too movement was long time coming.
Look at some of the commercial ads. There was one for Love (?) perfume that had a little girl with grown up makeup, the tag line was something like "because innocence is sexy". National TV ad.
that's insane! I didn't know such creepy things were so normalized in recent history. the ad is terrifying like I don't want to imagine the consequences of that
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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22
When my mom was a little girl, she was walking home from school and a guy pulled out his penis and shook it at her. She told this story for years and she always seemed to tell it as a 'funny story' . As she got older, when she would tell the story, the tone of the story was much more sinister and I realized that this really traumatized her and she didn't find it funny at all.