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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Secondhand smoke, pervasive racism, casual child abuse, institutionalized homophobia, incredibly bad music, shitty movies…

Yeah, the 80s rocked. [/quote]

My lord get another hobby besides raining on peoples parades. This shit is getting old. Start another thread of you want to talk about how shitty the 80’s were. [/quote]

The 80's weren't "shitty." I'm sure your 80's were fine, great even. But others have a different experience. The title of the thread is "80s summers." Are we only to talk about drinking from a garden hose?
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So you honestly think PP is talking about his/her 80’s summer experience, filled with pervasive racism, casual child abuse, and institutionalized homophobia?  S/he didn’t even know what those things were back then. C’mon. Let’s not be intentionally obtuse. [/quote]

Just because you didn’t recognize it until you looked at it in hindsight doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Lots of girls didn’t even realize they were sexually assaulted until much later when they learned what sexual assault was.

My H is an investigator and a girl took the required sexual assault and alcohol abuse training in college and was like oh yea my teacher did that to me. Called the police and was like I did realize that was sexual assault until I saw the video.

Another wrote her college essay on the hardest part about being a step daughter is sex with her step dad, the college turned the essay over to the police.[/quote]

Yeah, that’s still happening. 
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But in the 1980s there was a lot more looking the other way, or "don't sleepover at so-and-so's house, you know how her dad is, wink wink" and everyone would chuckle. We did it with priests, parents, teachers, coaches, bosses... camp counselors, man... wasn't new, but those were the last days it was acceptable.

Same with physical abuse—I knew lots of kids whose fathers were rage-a-holics and everyone would just say "boy, he's going to get it when he gets home!"

Of course it still happens, but now if a teacher knew a kid was getting his ass beat or a stepdad was touching his daughter, there would be a lot better chance it would be addressed. [/quote]

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