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   Bonnie “Bee” K (zombierustpunk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:15:11 JST Bonnie “Bee” K

   Kids today with their blue hair and pronouns.
   Kids today with their baggy pants and rap music.
   Kids today with their long hair and heavy metal music.
   Kids today with their long hair and hippie music.
   Kids today with their leather jackets and rock’n’roll music.
   Kids today with their flapper outfits and jazz music.

   Same as it ever was? Same as it ever was.

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     SocialistStan (socialiststan@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:15:10 JST SocialistStan

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     @zombierustpunk

     "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

     - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 50 BCE

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:15:10 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @SocialistStan @zombierustpunk I've been told this is one of many "kids these days" rants recorded in antiquity, too.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:26:04 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @tc_morekindness @zombierustpunk I'm not so sure it's that linear. By that logic, I, a Gen Xer, should find the blue hair and pronouns of Gen Z shocking. On the contrary, they remind me of when my friends used to die their hair with Kool Aid, and picking my pronouns in my teen years would have saved me a lot of lost time as an adult.

     Perhaps the early midcentury was a time of unnatural prudishness for white America instead?

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     Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻 (tc_morekindness@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:26:05 JST Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻

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     @zombierustpunk Haha. Right.

     Another way to look at this, though, is that every generation gets increasingly more shocking/ pushes the envelope a little further. Stuff we take for granted or shrug off now was radical back in the day. They wouldn't show Elvis (the Pelvis) below the waist on tv. 😅

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     Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻 (tc_morekindness@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 04:09:23 JST Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail Quite possibly. Just anecdotally, my grandmother was cooler and less prudish than my mother.

     @zombierustpunk

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 04:09:23 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻

     @tc_morekindness @zombierustpunk anecdotally, you're one of many people who've said that to me.