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Oh, there were plenty of people throwing a fit about it back in the 90s too. The only difference is no one had social media to go find one another and rile each other up. The few foaming at the month couldn't shout loud enough. You should have heard my bio dad at the time frothing he couldn't walk into the grocery with a lit cigarette. Apparently the communists had won.

My boomer bitch ass parents used to complain about us needing a few minutes to strap a car seat into a car in the 2010's.

"We didn't need car seats when we were babies and we survived."

They were fucking obnoxious.

Your parents didn't just stuff you in the back window?

As if anyone used car seats. Most people didn't use the seat belt.

The last thing you want in a car accident is one whole baby flying into the front seat area.

To be fair back in those days I believe filters were made containing asbestos. Your grandma was a smart cookie!

Edit: This was actually the 50s

I was thinking the other day about how in my 80s childhood that we were taught to avoid "dirty old men". Like nobody did anything about men preying on children, they just told you to avoid them. We had a neighbour growing up who had lost his teaching job for exposing himself to his students, and he also exposed himself to several other people in the neighbourhood, and did a lot of other creepy antisocial things (like abduct my cat and dump her outside of town, or put a sandwich bag over her head), and yet I was sent to piano lessons with his wife, where sometimes he would wander into the room in his underwear. If that was someone today he'd be on a sex offender list and in jail, but my parents thought it would be rude not to send me there for lessons.

We also had a guy who roamed around naked in the woodlot behind the grade school. I thought it was an urban legend and then I saw him myself one day when I was crossing the bridge overhead.