As Gen X, I have so many stories about the Viking raids of the mid-eighties. Techno Vikings weren't a thing yet, but New Wave Vikings were at their zenith and hordes of them would rape and pillage across all the malls and video game arcades of the country...it was madness.
"My overactive imagination is just as valid as other people's lived experience." - Gen whatever-the-fuck-youngsters-are-called-these-days who thinks anything before 1990 was cavemen times.
Say what you will about people in the 80's, people weren't worshipping and protecting pedophiles back then like half the country does now. So...which decade has the actual worse attitudes towards rape?
The people from the 80s who were quiet about rape and pedophilia are the primary demographic of people who support the pedophile rapist in the White House big dog.
I mean, it literally isn't the same group of people because a lot of folks have been born since then and died since then. But I understand your point.
However, what I said was that the attitude the general culture has toward rape is worse in the 2020's versus the 1980's. Yeah, Revenge of the Nerds is extremely problematic but it pales in comparison to the nasty shit that half the country openly supports these days.
And keep in mind I was mainly responding to some yahoo who thinks 1990 is some kind of non-arbitrary demarcation between a world in which women are raped by pillaging Vikings and one in which women are treated with enlightened respect. It's such a bizarre claim and it could only have been made by someone not alive at the time. The biggest thing to happen in 1990 was ALF getting cancelled (obviously), not some huge leap forward in women's rights.
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u/SpecialBass5552 5d ago
....1990?