Oddbean

If you were a teen and you wanted to talk to another teen, you had to call their home and usually talk to their parents. Some folks my age will probably say this built character or social skills or something. It did not. It was awful. Really happy kids today don't have to go through that.

A lot of movies from the 80's, 90's, and early 2000s haven't aged well. Because the attitudes they have toward women, toward people of color, toward queer people, are no longer acceptable in mainstream society. They were then. It wasn't even edgelords trying to be daring--there was just a much higher ambient level of bigotry, homophobia, and misogyny in the culture.

This is why it's weird to me that so many people my age are resistant to change and learning. The people who challenged me and pissed me off when I was in my teens and 20s were mostly right. Knowing this, I'm not gonna dismiss out of hand the people challenging me today.

@3ba5878d I told my best friend about The Famous Air Horn Tweet. She later had a dinner conversation about it with her daughter, and said, "Alice, some day there will be a societal change that just feels like a bridge too far for me, and I am counting on you to bring the air horn."

@f03388cc I can't believe this because I was such a Twitter addict, but I do not know of the air horn tweet. I mean, I can kind of get it from context, but if you can point me to it, that would be even better!

@3ba5878d Paraphrasing from memory, it was right after Thanksgiving, and someone posted that their parents had consistently misgendered and deadnamed their sibling, they "couldn't remember," so he brought an airhorn to Thanksgiving and within 10 seconds they remembered.