I remember I was reading about how attitudes toward sexual assault have changed and was shocked to see this NYT article from when I was in HS -- 1998 or so -- talking about a "record-breaking number of rapes" at the last Lollapalooza in this casual tonehttps://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/1371619103060922370?s=20 …
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And I'm not saying "nobody knew better" -- the message "This kind of advice is just victim-blaming" WAS OUT THERE in the '90s It was just considered "controversial" by mainstream outlets, associated with "radical" feminism, and so never went anywhere
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Shit, people in the '90s thought they were living in an era of "PC gone mad", they thought that feminists were "taking over the country" because of Hillary Clinton and Kurt Cobain doing a show in drag and EMILY's List becoming a thing
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I guess that's the whole point, young people can't fully appreciate how fast we've moved in a short time, and old people either celebrate this and are aware how fragile it is or are terrified by it and feel irrational rage against it
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