Honestly, it feels like the whole “casting incredibly classically beautiful actors in their late 20’s and early 30’s play high schoolers” is somehow getting worse? And it just continues creating such unobtainable goals for actual teenagers.
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But yeah the 25-year-old bodybuilder dudes on Riverdale etc are ridiculous
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Right? And sure, it’s supposed to be soapy & unrealistic. But it just seems to be getting more extreme somehow. I look back at shows from like the 80’s & 90’s and see how Western standards of beauty/expectations changed.
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True. It’s a weird thing because teenagers often do face challenges of a “mature nature” but the dramatization/Hollywood effect makes it feel weird somehow. Especially now, as you said.
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I just feel like a lot of stuff feels more exploitative and gross to me in hindsight now than it did when I actually was a teenager The review of Spring Awakening saying it pretended to be critiquing adults' obsession with teen sexuality when it was obviously indulging in it
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