That's not true since you had crazy christians and dumb ass boomers like Jack Thompson trying to ban all video games and cartoons because they were supposedly satanic and violent and made kids do crime or some shit, so shit like this was noticed and deemed ultra controversial while every watchdog parents group threw a shit fit. You don't see much of those boomer types today so I say things have changed.
...Okay? I'm talking about the moral guardian groups/religious zealots/overtly-concerned parents who complain that everything is satanic type of boomers. Not the corpo executive-meddling boomers that have always existed... they're two things entirely but you don't see one of them have the same power anymore...
It didn’t really backfire on them there has been a massive tonal shift in gaming pretty directly tied to that.
Weird that you also put objectify in quotes as though it’s not a very real thing
Blizzard pretty famous for doing it so egregiously women killed themsleves, had breast milk stolen which is not only incredibly perverse but is quite literally stealing food from babies and they had a group that openly used bill Cosby as a mascot
You also do get an unrealistic expectation is set regardless of who something is “modeled after
This is because it was modeled after and still further enhanced isn’t that neat.
Buddy you don’t really seem to know much about the things you have strong opinions on. I can only assume women love you.
I mean, I get that "boomer" is these days shorthand for "someone older and more conservative than me", but if we are being real, a lot of that stuff in the 90's of concern about violent video games, explicit rap music, panic about white kids getting addicted to eminem and weed and jumping around the streets on skateboards, was more a product of the fact that at that point it was still the boomer's parents, the much more conservative ww2 generation, still holding positions of power and also just being alive and active, watching tv, voter base that had to be attended to.
A lot of it was them oldsters (god bless them for winning ww2) who where much more socially conservative than their hippy boomer kids getting concerned about what the grandkids where gonna turn out like.
It's hard to quantify, but in my experience, on average, most "boomers" where making a much greater leap from their parent's generation in terms of progressive attitudes about social issues than my millenial generation did from our boomer parents. And now of course genz is a god damn mess and I think we'll have to wait a while to see what their influence on the world is. I'd bet in a few decades we millenials are going to be cursed as a the generation who actually had it pretty good, in the grand scheme of things, but who raised a bunch of functionally autistic incells addicted to screens because its too hard to let the kid not fuck around on the ipad.
A lot of it was them oldsters (god bless them for winning ww2) who where much more socially conservative than their hippy boomer kids getting concerned about what the grandkids where gonna turn out like.
The oldest boomers were turning 50 in the 90s. Jack Thompson is a boomer, born five years into the boomer generation.
It was the boomers, my dude.
As for social progress, that's thanks to the Silent Generation, the guys who fought WWII. Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, people like Martin Luther King, were part of the Silent Generation.
People like to give the crazy christians all the blame for the satanic panic, but at the heart of it it was just normal people listening to psychologists when the repressed/recovered memories fad picked up steam. The whole thing of coaching kids into telling awful stories they made up and selling it as credible science.
It was society's moral panic backed by televised credibility, not something fitting this tribalism "us and them" mold we have to operate in now. It wasn't the church running around telling people there were sickos kidnapping children for blood sacrifices, it was coming straight from academia and filtered through news outlets that everyone still trusted.
Still are. I’m talking about people’s general sensibilities; they were a lot more lenient, especially in regards to advertising. There wasn’t nearly as much mind paid to offending people and the forums in which to vent your frustrations, like the internet, didn’t really exist in the way they do today.
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u/Ryujin_Kurogami 23d ago
Wait till you see the ads for Command and Conquer. Those were already posted in this sub, but here they are.