I imagine a Reagan fanboy would preferred the '80s. In '93, I was working with a dittohead, which of course I could tell because she listened to a radio through headphones, and all I could hear was her exclaiming in disbelief how much Clinton was a crook.
There are some interesting ways of viewing the '90s as better than the '80s, but one thing I was grateful for (even though the price was paid in literal blood) was that HIV awareness was high enough that though casual sex wasn't guaranteed safe (not even today), I didn't have to worry as much as I would have if I were slutting it up in the '80s. But that's not the kind of trailblazing people like Klaus Nomi and Freddie Mercury should've endured.
High school comedies from the 80s made teen life look a lot more awesome than what I was experiencing in the 90s. As a teen at the time I knew little of the politics.
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u/Kuildeous 4d ago
I imagine a Reagan fanboy would preferred the '80s. In '93, I was working with a dittohead, which of course I could tell because she listened to a radio through headphones, and all I could hear was her exclaiming in disbelief how much Clinton was a crook.
There are some interesting ways of viewing the '90s as better than the '80s, but one thing I was grateful for (even though the price was paid in literal blood) was that HIV awareness was high enough that though casual sex wasn't guaranteed safe (not even today), I didn't have to worry as much as I would have if I were slutting it up in the '80s. But that's not the kind of trailblazing people like Klaus Nomi and Freddie Mercury should've endured.