lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn’t know shit about mental health, and didn’t help any of us.
Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?
People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn’t heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that’s all.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Except that’s absolutely not true.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
en.wikipedia.org/…/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controver…
wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
Anyone that thinks that society has gone soft and media can’t really be free doesn’t remember what it was actually like before.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 week ago
None of those overlapped with Ren and Stimpy. All of those were for the parents of the kids watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the sole exception being the Satanic Panic from the 80s (which involved the duplicate article you posted about D&D).
Ren and Stimpy was allowed because the people who would cry foul were too cheap for basic cable and didn’t know it existed.