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- Oct 27, 2021
Agree but it wasn't even that bad, and it had a point.
There's virtually never a time that wearing a condom is or has been a life-damagingly bad idea (please, nerds, no well ackshually sperging about previously unknown but fatal latex allergies, or backseat whining about sensation), and they do, in fact, offer meaningful mitigation against STDs, so that was good advice that holds true today, 30-odd years later. And at the time, AIDS was a death sentence, and a lot of people died horrible and early deaths. (It also still exists, and living with it even now is no picnic.) Other STDs can of course also have life-impacting consequences. We weren't traumatized by being advised over and over of medical realities and some easy ways to mitigate risk.
On the other hand, Zoomer guidance to everyone having a bad day to question your entire life, body, and identity, and to be encouraged to explore 1) on the low side, alienating yourself from any norm, likely increasing unease and negative emotions, or 2) on the high side, carving off parts of your body, embracing your inner degenerate*, and enacting fatwas against anyone who finds you annoying (whether or not related to any degeneracy, or to any body or lifestyle choice) is altogether more harmful, to individuals and to society as a whole.
* I am making a distinction between the self-identity/body modding vs degeneracy, unpopular as it might be. By degeneracy I mean sexual interest in children and/or animals, snuff, necro, shota/similar, hardcore sexual furrydom, consent accidents, fucking your enfeebled mother**, etc.
** maybe that one was the Millenial advice
So I agree with you but GenX sex advice wasn't alarmist (even with your "virgin" (afayk, and up to that point, etc.) bf/gf ). And besides, back then birth control for girls was far less easy to get - fewer types, more and worse side effects, fewer understanding parents and Healthcare providers (HIPAA didn't even exist as a single defined, national law until 1996), and much more expensive and not covered by insurance, so condoms were also far more likely to be the single anti-pregnancy option.
On the other hand, Zoomer guidance to everyone having a bad day to question your entire life, body, and identity, and to be encouraged to explore 1) on the low side, alienating yourself from any norm, likely increasing unease and negative emotions, or 2) on the high side, carving off parts of your body, embracing your inner degenerate*, and enacting fatwas against anyone who finds you annoying (whether or not related to any degeneracy, or to any body or lifestyle choice) is altogether more harmful, to individuals and to society as a whole.
* I am making a distinction between the self-identity/body modding vs degeneracy, unpopular as it might be. By degeneracy I mean sexual interest in children and/or animals, snuff, necro, shota/similar, hardcore sexual furrydom, consent accidents, fucking your enfeebled mother**, etc.
** maybe that one was the Millenial advice
So I agree with you but GenX sex advice wasn't alarmist (even with your "virgin" (afayk, and up to that point, etc.) bf/gf ). And besides, back then birth control for girls was far less easy to get - fewer types, more and worse side effects, fewer understanding parents and Healthcare providers (HIPAA didn't even exist as a single defined, national law until 1996), and much more expensive and not covered by insurance, so condoms were also far more likely to be the single anti-pregnancy option.
instagram posts about fitness. If you go to hashtag for his gym (cant remember the name sorry) its literally a bunch of people working out, with pictures of that fat head interspersed with at least as much frequency as sanders "dont like running?" tiktoks. He doesnt post anything about working out, its literally just upclose selfies of the dumbest, fattest facial expressions known to man.
