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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Like this guy was probably MORE AWARE of racism in the '90s than he is now -- there's no way he could've NEVER HEARD OF the OJ Simpson trial or the LA riots, especially if he's a gangsta rap fan -- and he's just erased it from his memory so he can better enjoy his nostalgia
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I mean he's not special, our culture does this all the time Cf. the people pointing out the wave of '80s nostalgia Stranger Things rode in on cleaned up the actual '80s a lot
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Made it seem like racism wasn't much of a thing, group of white kids with one Black friend is normal (much like the idealized diverse friend groups they made up in the actual '80s)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @lisakwildman @arthur_affect
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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Pfft Ally Sheedy's character in The Breakfast Club literally ends the movie by giving up being quirky so she can finally have sex
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He fetishized "quirky girls" but he was absolutely not "pro-quirky"
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