For me a big part of growing up and getting older was looking back on my childhood through adult eyes and, in hindsight, seeing there was a lot of shit going on back then I wasn't aware of as a kid A lot of people seem to do the exact oppositehttps://twitter.com/polerin/status/1385268797653733381 …
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The Queen's Gambit, which is ostensibly *about* sexism and a "woman proving herself in a man's world", *wildly* soft-pedaling the overt, explicit sexism of the chess world in the 1960s
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Dealing with men subtly condescending to her or underestimating her Not grandmasters standing up going "I won't play against a woman, it's an insult, it's like playing against a trained chimpanzee"
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I asked someone younger why they love those John Hughes movies (which literally take place in a Chicago-area version of where I grew up) & she said that they made it seem like it was a great time to be a quirky girl.

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I wrote college application essays about being not quite sure I was a real person like other people. I flunked CPR because there was an odd number of students, after everyone else paired up immediately, I hid behind a desk for every class & no one noticed until test time.
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#DS9 addressed the dangers of entertainment which sanitizes the past in 1999. It's the only time I've seen this critique on TV. Crucially, Kasidy notes the importance of remembering the truth while exploring the fantasy.https://twitter.com/specialjesse/status/1341588772127817728 …
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WandaVision, for a recent example. Talks about the nostalgia of popcorn media as an escape. Nostalgia is a literal trap Wanda puts herself in.
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