Me personally? I’ve become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women’s expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I’ve matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I’ve come to see how exclusionarly and objectifying that sort of ‘humor’ really is, and I regret it deeply.

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    Grew up in the 80s and 90s. As progressive and openminded as I thought I was then…holy shit there are a lot of words and phrases I won’t touch any more because they sound archaic, racist, mysoginistic, or hateful today. Back then they were perfectly acceptable everyday things no one would bat an eye at. It does make me happy that at least in this small arena we seem to have made progress as a society.

    (Should add that this is from a US perspective)

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      I was rewatching some Buffy the vampire Slayer and Buffy asks herself if she’s “mentally challenged” in the second episode.

      It’s kind of crazy to me how I didn’t bat an eye at that just 10 years ago when I was watching the show in high school.

      Society and language evolve at a truly spectacular rate

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        If we could just stop regressives from taking us back every time we think we’ve moved forward.

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        And I assure you the more conservative minded at the time complained that she did not use the term “retarded”

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              Nah you’re full of shit lol maybe you saw one loser complain on the Buffy forum or something, but I can assure you as a conservative myself no one gave a fuck about that lmao

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                Or I had crowds of conservatives complaining she was being politically correct by not using the term retarded which was 100% acceptable at that time.