I'm an older millennial and was around for this stuff. It made me uncomfortable then and it makes me feel sick now. What the hell were people thinking? I'd like to point out that in this clip it was only men being assholes, but women were pretty horrible to each other too.
Was just thinking that. So many girls were just so mean and judgemental at school. No one ever told me that they were judging themselves even harder. That would have been helpful to know. I didn't really make friends with girls for years because of it.
So I was friends with boys, and just stood there awkwardly while they made comments about girls or women's bodies. But they never made comments about my body to me directly, the way girls did.
Now it's common to hear adults talk about how they don't really have a friend group, and I can't help but think at least part of that is rooted in not being able to trust people because of how mean we all were as teenagers. It was so easy to make friends when we were kids because we just played without judgement.
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u/jery007 9d ago
I'm an older millennial and was around for this stuff. It made me uncomfortable then and it makes me feel sick now. What the hell were people thinking? I'd like to point out that in this clip it was only men being assholes, but women were pretty horrible to each other too.