With UlyssesT out there touching grass, I haven’t seen this thread in a while. What in the past do you NOT miss? It could be very personal or just something everyone experienced but doesn’t anymore.
For me, I am so fucking happy the food scene in burgerland has changed since the 2000s. People seem to enjoy more well-seasoned foods and healthier options seem to outstrip the unhealthy slop I remember in the 2000s. Even my yee-yee ahh Ohio suburb has changed somewhat noticeably to support fresh ingredients. Less WASPslop is always good.
How about y’all?
Random homophobia in movies and tv shows back in the day for no reason whatsoever.
I was watching a Police Academy clip the other day, and while the ‘Blue Oyster’ bit from those flicks was always notorious, it’s probably one of the only bits people remember from them. What really hit me was this scene (paraphrased because I don’t want to go watch PA clips again just to get the exact dialogue):
This of course is the brilliant, biting humour that the Rogansphere complains got taken away by Woke.
This and the casual transphobia of movies too. Basically every 90s and early 00s comedy has the “joke” of a character sleeping with a woman who’s then revealed to have transitioned and it causes the character to become violently ill
I’m so fucking glad that one is gone from the mainstream
transphobia as a gag is still shockingly common well into 2010s flicks