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You wouldn't want to go back to the "good ol' days."

 If you think about how people romanticize and glorify the past; the idea that people didn't get so easily offended by everything, that people knew what is a woman, that people didn't just transition their children or start shoving sexuality down their throats, or that we didn't have all these bizarre things going on right now was so wonderful and good.


But is the past really that good? Let me put it to you this way, if you're a gay person in the 50s, or the 60's, or hell even the early 90s you would be in the closet. Because back then, even in the 50's you were either arrested just for being gay or you were sent to an insane asylum or conversion therapy. You were murdered, or ostracized by your church and community should they know. Your family disowns you. 


Even if you're not Gay but a straight person. Is this really the kind of thing you want to return to? You really think that because of the insane stuff happening now, the 50's would be better? 


I remember how even in early 2000, you can't come out without being killed or fired, or demonized or threatened either with violence or with the damnation of hell. Gays have struggled all their lives to survive in this homophobic hellhole that never saw them as people. Christianity is and is still homophobic because they still even to this day believe that gays don't deserve marriage, they don't deserve adoption, they don't deserve rights, or anything but be forced back into the closet. They even cheered for Uganda, a homophobic country, that arrests gay people. There were some comments that said they wish we could bring that back in the US; arrest gay people.


Where was all that coming from? From the far left that think anyone can be a woman, that children should get transitional surgery, or that kids should attend drag shows or be in drag themselves. Was that really happening or was all that just a lie? Even I do not know. However, there are some people who generally don't think this is a problem. 


I don't think we talk about this; how it's not all rainbow and sunshine in the 50s. Just because people didn't get so easily offended or know what a woman is, doesn't mean people are kind and wonderful. 


The 50's was truly homophobic, racist and sexist time, even down to the early 90s. Say what you will about 2023, but even now those are smaller and smaller. 


Back then, your family would not want their children dating other races or of their own gender. Boys were meant to never cry or like anything girls do and girls are supposed to be compliant and obedient. I'm by no means a feminist, but that's disgusting! 


Back then society expects women to be at home bearing children and for men to make money and work til he drops! Back then, it's expected of you to be straight and Christian! You can't even say you don't believe in God. 

Should you be a white man who treats nonwhites, women or even gay people equally and friendly, you're judged and looked at wrong! And there are men like this of course. History wasn't all black and white. 


We may not like what is going on now, but the past wasn't all that's cracked up to be. We shouldn't treated people badly, we shouldn't take anyone's rights away and we shouldn't paint a group as the same. We're all individuals and we don't think alike. 

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