• dumples
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    3 days ago

    I been watching some movies and TV shows from the early 2000s as a nostalgia trip with my wife and man there were some terrible lessons. We talked about the homophobia and transphobia but the misogyny, body image and sexualization of teens. The skin women being called fat with the fashion that only looked good on thin thin thin women. The insistence that there was nothing worse than being a virgin. (While the schools were doing an abstinence only education BTW). The countdown clocks to when every female celebrity turned 18 everywhere. It’s surreal to think that message was everywhere.

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      2 days ago

      Shallow Hal comes to mind and one of the reasons I have a difficult time enjoying Jack Black.

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        2 days ago

        It’s basically everything from that time. What a weird era