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[quote=Anonymous]I am 65. All these issues were here long before now, but access information has changed. If you are over 65, you saw the normalization of sexual diversity happen while you were an adult, as opposed to being a child..it was there but hidden in most cases or pushed off into groups,  but you may be unfamiliar with gender issues. All you knew about was cross dressing, maybe. So, basically, this group had a big learning curve and needed to adjust the route and plane, even, while in flight. Now, what matters is that you are doing it or not.  Make an effort.

Religion and social templates dictated our lives, marriages, careers, choices, and families.  Families look very different now, relationships are defined differently.  Sexuality, period, is entirely out in the open. It's been removed from some religious sanctity, (and from behind closed doors),  and yes, misogyny.  It's hard to imagine how much those social institutions informed how we did everything,  even if we weren't religious. Our generation was the bridge that led us to new constructs today,  and I wish millennials would give young boomers credit for  that.  We paved a lot of roads.

Access to information is better, comprehensive. Technology has transformed the way we do everything.  We've literally had to adjust our brains to imbibe so much information and apply it to so much in our lives. But, let's not forget- we developed this-- not younger generations.  They used what we developed, and there are problems. Access to information doesn't mean it's all valid. Or appropriate.  Children access concepts of sexuality and other things far too early before they are able to understand context. They have access to things they shouldn't- sex, violence, fetishism- and it has a neurological effect, and may be exacerbating or fueling more mental illness than we think. Having said that, we have come a long way from what was considered "normal" and what was considered "crazy." We understand more about mental health- and that is good. Advances in science have helped in areas of disease and nutrition. We've normalized all types of spirituality and we are trying  to climb out of a white, Christian, male dominated template. I'm not saying being a Christian is no longer valid or OK,  but I'm saying it shouldn't dominate our laws, education, relationships, or health. It really has up until recently,  and there are those who are trying to go backwards.

What's  bad now?  Violence, increased racism, zenophobia (so odd since most of us are from an immigrant background) climate issues, education programming still stuck in another generation, lack of health care for so many, food insecurity, explosion of addictive drugs, lack of community, unfettered and massive amounts of information all the time 24/7, working/ career paradigms for families, lack of support for families in general informing poor parenting  in many cases, widespread poverty  in the face of massive wealth, exponential consumerism and status, and lack of empathy.

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