Submitted 8 months ago by braindefragger@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Is Generation X aware that the popularity of tattoos today reminds Baby Boomers and The Silent Generation of criminals?
That’s kinda what this question sounds like. The generations that come after us don’t care about the sensibilities of things that mildly challenged the more conservative norms of the generations before them, and why would they?
Being anonymous on the Internet is also favored by predators, but that ain’t gonna stop me from doing that, either.
Anyone thinking it’s possible to detect predators by their facial hair will end up molested by someone with a smooth face and hard pecker.
Yes. We don’t care. That association is stupid.
Or telling. Someone might have hurt OP.
I associate them with 70’s porn, personally.
Maybe you are projecting if you see a moustache and think of a child predator
So you’re saying you were purposefully shown a set of images that featured mustaches and were told these are what predators look like?
That sounds similar to being taught to fear ethnicities or other ways people present themselves.
Seems like an oversimplification of the world done by narrow minded people who were very misguided.
I would rather attack you and make you cry because I have nothing else going on in my life and this is the one place I feel like I matter.
Cry for me please. Please?
This doesn’t belong here - it’s definitely a stupid question. Why should anyone care what you think about their facial hair, or any other body choice?
This isn’t OP’s personal association that’s unique to them. The Hitler 'stache is another style of facial hair with unfortunate associations…
Some might know, some might not know. I don’t think it’s relevant to them and would never confront anyone about it. This connection will die out with time (sooner than the older people, they’ll just get used to seeing it).
All staches do. And yes we’re all aware. (Is 2001 gen z)
And yes I still have a stache.
Well, not all staches are child predator adjacent. The Charlie Chaplain, the Fu Manchu, the Hulk Hogan, and the Inspector Poirot have other connotations.
And the classic 1970s-80s Tom Selleck is definitely the pornstache. Boom-chicka-wow-wow.
I’ve always found jokes like that to be distasteful and weird.
Elder Millennial here. I think I just have that “eww pedostache” reaction because, when I was young, such mustache styles were common among middle-aged men who hadn’t updated their styles since the '80s. Some of those men were creepy, so the mustache style became associated with creepy old men. And of course, teenaged giggling among ourselves about “eww pedostache!” really cemented the association.
I’m pretty sure our parents had the same initial reaction when we brought aviator glasses back into fashion. We’ll get over it, the cycle continues.
It’s the pornstache and it’s back, man.
I can never tell with things like this if it's a US fashion trend that hasn't made it out yet or if this is just an internet thing that doesn't really exist. Either way not seen an increase in mustaches
Which style? No need to be coy about it. Just say it.
Which mustache style should I have to take a picture in front of the Eifel tower? 🧐🧐🧐 /S
I don’t really associate them with child predators, but I personally find them staches ugly AF. But I’m just a millenial, so you do you.
I call em pedo stashes but also they can do their thing as long as they aren’t hurting anyone.
Dude millennials were sporting the stach too
Conyak@lemmy.tf 8 months ago
I’m Gen X and that is not what I associate it with. It makes me think they do porn.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Copstaches in polite company. Maybe cop-chic is coming back (if it was ever a thing).
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 8 months ago
Xennial (or gen-x, if you use the old one that goes to '82 instead of '80) here and same.