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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Fast Times at Ridgemont High was on the boring side. But I'm surprised at the pearl clutching. It was a very realistic portrayal of lower middle class high  school life. Including the sex, which turned out to be rather anticlimactic. Which it often is!

I am intrigued by this creeping return to prudery and censorship of our current times. The whole 70s-90s was a revolt against the censorship and prudery of previous generations. [/quote]

It's really something, isn't it! Only now it's kids censoring themselves and dragging us olds into it, too.

I mean it's hard to complain that kids today aren't smoking, drinking, using drugs, or having s*x the way we degenerates did in the 80s and 90s - but also, yeah, there's a prudishness that seems really anti-LIFE. Not life in the abortion sense but life in the aren't we here to experience some things and make some mistakes and see what's out there?!
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Exactly this.

But I think it’s only a brief blip affecting “kids” who are college age through mid 20s right now. It’s going to be a weird fad like the kids who got really devoted to being depressed and cutting themselves to grunge in the early 90s.

Our younger kids and their friends (late ES through HS) know all the liberal/woke values, the coded terminology, the mantra of health and safety and carbon footprints and always being kind to everyone in all circumstances, never getting in trouble. But they use it all in a sarcastic, mocking way. “You’re so cancelled!” That sort of thing.

Thankfully rebellion for them is going to look like actual rebellion… not a tedious game of who can virtue signal the hardest. [/quote]

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