If you watched Stranger Things, the depiction of Nancy going to work and being relegated to making coffee for the boys instead of being taken seriously at an actual job is an iconic representation of women’s struggle in the workplace. Remember, women were only allowed to have their own bank accounts, credit cards, and home loans as legally protected assets, starting in the late 1970s. We were deemed more incompetent, and more wards of our husbands in those respects. Inertia of those notions remained even after the legality changed. That whole bit in Delores Claiborne, where her husband finds her “private”, “personal”, only her name on it bank account and just empties it: real. (That is what RBG had a deciding vote on btw, what gave her such credit back in the day, changing financial freedoms for women to match those of men.)

Yes, this may seem a little focused on women, but it’s a significant piece of the “things were better” push on the right. The right did grow, in part, as a reaction to the loss of the more controlled, traditional, “kept” female. It’s important to keep a full visual of what going back could mean. Roe has already fallen.

Moving away from screen time to more face to face is good. Doesn’t mean texting is bad, it’s fantastic, amazing even, how easy it is to communicate. I love it. But I still drive 10-15min to sit down in a living room face to face with people. I feel little to no stress when disagreement, argument, or even anger occurs. Facing the normal range of human emotion in another doesn’t make me want to hide.

Even just moving back to more long form media would help stop the destructive, anxiety perpetuating, focus reducing rewiring happening. YouTube statistics are now saying anything over 10 minutes is doomed to die based on viewer preference. 9 minutes or less or gtfo. Shorts are quickly taking over and perpetually rewiring people on the daily.

I guess so. This is from the article:

Their political project uses the aesthetic of the past to sell a future where minorities are marginalized, women have no political power, and white guys are in charge. That’s how they think it all worked in the past and they’d love for it to happen again.

What the videos don't show is how bad racism was before everyone is able to record at anytime. Shows and movies were very streotypical. Actually since cancel culture wasn't a thing for not famous people, people were really racists in just everyday conversations.

The government's war on immigrants is very much like the war on drugs with were specifically created to target hippies and black communities while at the same time suppying the communities with the drugs they deemed illegal.

In terms of the environment, lead was banned in gasoline in 1996. I thought it was way earlier than that when I looked it up. Shame really. I am no a scientists and the results of microplastics in our system is still being researched but lead poisoning effects are very well documented and I believe the pernament mental effects of it can be seen in a large portion of the boomer population.

It's not even just the bad they're not showing, they aren't showing anything outside of a suburban straight white guys point of view. Which does reflect a lot of 80s media but doesn't reflect the experience of a lot of people in the 80s

I know I have seen some way off depictions in tv shows and movies.

I will never understand nostalgia.

Yes, I was born in 1996, so not quite 80s, but even my nostalgia being applied to life wouldn't mean mimicking old days. It would mean making some comfortable change in what exists now. Like there's an abandoned cinema building (belonged to USSR ministry of defense, then was a small auto dealership, then was rented to shops and cat owner events, and finally it turned out nobody can untangle who really owns it, and if it's still Russian military of defense or private property) nearby, and the ownership issues with it have apparently been almost resolved.

So there are from time to time posts in our house chat about this or that plan involving something being built in place of that building.

That's not needed. If they demolish it, they can just make sort of an antique amphitheater with low benches to seat on. Just a place with many benches and trees around, formed so that people in it can all see each other. And it's weird, it seems someone doesn't like benches in Moscow, there are fewer and fewer of them on the streets and in parks and everywhere.

I mean, yeah, realty costs are a bitch there, but apparently nobody needs that particular place if the building has an owner, but is in fact used as a toilet for homeless people.

Yep, I was gonna say, as a child of the 70s/early 80s, I was a totally unsupervised latch-key kid. The paedophiles loved that. It was a predator’s paradise. Most of us knew kids our age who either vanished or died by misadventure, and many of us were assaulted in some way.

I don’t like helicopter parenting, either, but anyone who sees the Wild West of the 80s as some sort of ideal either has a faulty memory or is deluding themselves.

We’ve destroyed any sense of community that used to exist.

What's wrong? Paying rent to your landlord once a month isn't enough socializing for ya? Its more then enough for me that's for sure.

Like actually back. Popular, even. I get downvoted to oblivion for making fun of mullets. I don't understand a world where mullets are not just here, but defended as a legitimate hairstyle.

The party is behind us.

We gave our kid a wolfcut mullet, and honestly it’s working 🤙

Lemme help you spice things up: Wait until you're passing by a guy who's super clean cut and wearing business attire. As you go by, yell: "Get a haircut, hippy!" It's funny every time.

Covid made me a hair farmer.

In 2015 I actually thought the world was going to get better. Haha what an idiot I was.

2012 was pretty much peak imo. Cant really think of anything after that thats worth saving. Guess the mayans were kinda right after all. Smartphones had come out and evolved into something decent but weren't terrible yet, facebook was still kinda useful and not a propaganda cesspit, google would give you useful results, reddit was full of unique and interesting information. Tv and movies were really hitting their stride with some of the most bou dary pushing original tv series and movies hadn't all devolved to remakes and superhero rehashes, global warming was bad but people seemed concerned about it and it wasnt past the point of no return yet, youtube didnt shove a million ads down your face. Netflix was streaming content but didnt have any competitors buying up rights yet, spotify was fairly new and revolutionary still, forums still existed for all sorts of niche interests, ads werent completely pervasive everywhere, google wasn't an evil monopoly sucking up everyones data, memes were still fresh and original, gaming pretty much hit its pinnacle of graphical fidelity relative to performance costs, you could order awesome drugs off the internet unregulated (not even just the dark web, research chemicals were fucking great and hadnt started to be banned yet). Idk i could go on and on but literally everything felt like it got worse from there. I didnt even touch on productivity or the economy but it still felt like a bit of a boom in the wake of the rebound from 2008. If im missing anything good that happened post 2012 please let me know.

There's a lot to be said for the late 90's. Post Cold War, but pre 9/11.

It's not perfect for everyone, especially if you're LGBT+, but it's got a lot going for it.

September 2016, so we'd have finished existance off with the summer of Pokemon GO

No thanks.i long for a time that never was, and may never be.

woosh

I think you might have been too young to remember the Regan years.

not nearly as tumultuous as today, but certainly similar in spirit.

Reagan/Thatcher is the reason why "moderate left wing" nowadays means "liberalism" instead of "social democracy", and even most so called social democrats nowadays act like liberals instead.

And now the christofascists want to have their "Blair Labour" moment on social issues, and I'm afraid they've mostly succeeded that with "Starmer Labour". They want a world, where there's no real alternatives to "hard conservatism" (fascism).

Bullying from all sides with adults taking part in ways no different than the children. Made me wonder if they whole 'respect your elders' made any fucking sense.

Wouldn't call it rampant.
Didn't really cause a dent on that generation either.

Thank you

I agree with you, but it is a lot like Boomers calling everyone younger a Millenial.

They were 20 year olds, they didn't own shit