What now makes you uncomfortable that didn't at the time

[drinkingwineoutofamug]

As a teenager I like listening to a certain rock band.
Just found their album on iTunes, downloaded and listened.
I was shocked. One of the songs - sung by grown men - ' she's a 13 yr tease , with bleach blonde hair. Let me eat your cookies , let me see your cookies '
Sat in the bath gob smacked. When I was 15 , this never made me question.

Has anyone else come across something that as a younger person it never crossed your mind but now it's a wtf moment

@BlueCowWonders

Diana Spencer - a 19 year old married off to a man 12 years older. Did it seem romantic then? I'm horrified as the mother of a 19 yr old

Diana's poor Mum didn't fare much better with her own marriage to a much older man either.

Frances' mother, Lady Fermoy, had a lot to answer for. She even gave evidence against her own daughter during the divorce proceedings.

When I was at school 3 girls in my circle of friends were in sexual relationship age 13/14, two of them with older males. At the time I thought they were so mature and sophisticated, now it makes my skin crawl.

@SpringtimeSummertime

Not to mention that awful film where John Cleese plays a headteacher who runs around with a 6th former... What’s it called.

I think it was called Clockwise. I loved it at the time but now am

Both of mine happenned in caravan parks in the 80's. 2 men and their dog were staying in a caravan over looking the kids playground. My sister and I used to regularly go into their caravan to play with the dog and were gone for hours. My parents knew yet never met them and were ok with it. They were 2 lovely, in hindsight gay men but our parents didnt know this and I wonder what the hell they were thinking letting us hang around in the caravan of 2 strange men.

The second was in Cornwall. A man was rounding the kids up from the playground to watch a show. I said no as our parents wouldn't know where we had gone and we would get in trouble. The man said he would tell our parents. But he didnt and they never noticed how long we were gone anyway. But the man should never have encouraged us to do that

I used to quite like John Cleese in 'Clockwise': "G3, Leroy!" I agree it hasn't aged well - I seem to remember the plot (besides the perennial timekeeper being made more and more tardy by extenuating circs) was that everyone assumed John Cleese was having it off with the sixth former . . . but she was actually having it off with another teacher. Side-splitting.

Friends.
Drag.
That the first song I really knew and sang and danced to at 6 or 7 was "like a virgin.... touched for the very first time😲."

I'm sure there will be lots our kids say about now too...

@WishingHopingThinkingPraying

Dad's making jokes about shotguns or being their DDs protector. Fucking hate it now.

Very little turns my stomach as much as this nonsense does. 🤨

It's just sick.
Have you seen the staged Prom Night photos?

@RachelRaven

I always think it is really creepy that buddy the Elf marries Zooey Deschanel.

Apart from me, you're the only person that I've encountered that has said the same.

Why doesn't anyone else see it??

'Kinky boots' was playing on the radio recently and I've never really listened to the lyrics before, so was rather surprised to hear Patrick Macnee singing about "Sexy little schoolgirls" at one point. I thought I had misheard, so looked up the lyrics and was rather sad to see I had heard correctly.

I used to love Bobby Womack.

Regarding Rita ,Sue and Bob too ,the writer wrote it about her own experiences growing up on that estate ,she had a terrible life and died tragicallyyoung

DW's childhood friend married her maths teacher, or something.

When I was 17, a classmate met a bloke online. He was about 40 and had two teenagers. He alternated his weekends between seeing his kids and driving from the south coast to the midlands to spend the entire weekend in a hotel room with my classmate. Everybody thought it was fine because she was over 16.

Young Girl by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap. Really used to love that song but can't listen to it now.

Just read the lyrics to DH and he knew is straight away.
We were meant to see Jizzy Pearl on the 30th Anniversary tour of that album but it's been rescheduled again until year.

Sorry not really relevant to post

I used to love Billy Idol but listening to his music now he has some very problematic songs, "Cradle of Love" is just awful, lyrics and video.

Ive no idea @Ameanstreakamilewide but I’m so glad im no longer a lone voice!

Gilbert o Sullivan singing Claire

The song Brown Girl in the Ring la la la la la.

@sar302

PE knickers. Big up and over ones that you wore with nothing but a gym T-shirt. In the winter. For cross country. Funnily enough the boys got to wear proper shorts 🤔

When we were in yr 9 they had a shake up of the pe staff and two younger female staff joined. They immediately added shorts to the girls PE uniform.

I was a bit "whatever" about it at the time. I was a "good girl" and just did and wore what I was told. But thinking now about how many women my age were put off exercise in their teens - well of course they bloody were. They were made to run around in a pair of knickers, at the start of puberty and periods, in front of hundreds of boys and male PE staff.

Why? Why on earth where those sodding knickers even considered an item of external clothing?

I remember when we were only allowed to wear trousers to school in winter when the head master deemed it to be cold enough.

My DM had a fall out with the headmaster because my DSis couldn't wear trousers in March. And people say uniforms are ridiculously strict now.

Drag.
Sorry but I just can’t stand it.

Enid Blyton books, especially famous five
Julian "Lets go on an adventure and Anne can clean the camp and make the tea"

Actually Julian, make your own fucking tea, and you know how to use a sodding broom. I am off on my own fucking adventure, so you can shove that broom where the fucking sun doesn't shine

Friends has aged VERY badly

@babbaloushka

Even the differences in marking of Olympic Gymnastics floor routines is vastly different, they are expected to smile and pose and look entertaining. The way Simone Biles propels herself to 3 times her own heigh and then has to smile is a glaring disparity between how the males are expected to compete, on pure skill and ability.

Yep. The women have to dance around to music and look nice, the men just have to flip around and show off their strength.

@youshallnotpass9

Enid Blyton books, especially famous five Julian "Lets go on an adventure and Anne can clean the camp and make the tea"

Actually Julian, make your own fucking tea, and you know how to use a sodding broom. I am off on my own fucking adventure, so you can shove that broom where the fucking sun doesn't shine

Ha! I used to love Enid Blyton, but as a teen/adult they were pretty choice. Sexist, classist and racist. But I think reflective of society then, to be honest.

@SocraticJunkieWannabe

The film Almost Famous - 14/15 year old groupies with men in their 30s at least.

Do you not just think that's bands being controversial like they have always been?

Most lyrics are intended to provoke a reaction.