• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s so much bigger than this. It starts young. iPad kids. Strict gender roles. Sexualization of children. Learning from parents who have been conditioned by capitalism, sexism and more. We got little girls that want skincare products and teens talking about plastic surgery. It’s bad.

    Agreed though. Punish people for ruining society. I think I read a while ago that France had required social media posts to flag when images have been altered. We need more laws like this too.

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      13 hours ago

      As little kids we got like no genderbased education from our parents. When we moved our grandmother got a lot more control and dumped blue boyish stuff on my brother and forbid the girly things. Has never worn a dress since and now is still not willing to wear one

      (it could be that us older sisters influenced that he wants to wear dresses too)

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        11 hours ago

        Bummer. Happens to almost all men in the US. Maybe less now, but this new red pill generation is wild.

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        12 hours ago

        I need context to understand your story. How old was your brother when you moved? How often was he wearing dresses before the move? How quickly did it stop? And how old is he now?

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      12 hours ago

      And mass sharing of images/videos which has made it so much easier to connect people, specifically in one case I saw today of someone on Telegram sharing child porn. How do you even put the cat back in the box?

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        10 hours ago

        It has always been this way. When you get old, 15 year olds and 19 year olds start to all look the same.

        Similarly, to teenagers a 40 year old and a 60 year old look the same. Old.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s hard to say if it’s one of those things that older gens say is different with newer gens even though it the same. I will say though, the convergence of sexualization of children and infantilization of adults have been narrowing the gap and maybe one is winning over the other.