Has lads’ behaviour and misogyny become worse since the 70s and 80s?

[FelicityShagsWell]

Not me, but my mum. She thinks the majority of them are coarse, laddish, foul language and go around in gangs. It wasn't as bad in the 70s and 80s apparently.

Right then!

I'm not sure - there would have been casual misogyny then but not the likes of Andrew Tate for example.

The other thing that surprises me . In the 80s, every girl would get catcalled. Every well endowed young woman would attract bawdy comments but generally, by 35 or 40, men would back off. Show a bit of respect.

I'm 62 and a couple of months ago, out running in my small rural village, a man made a grab for me as I passed, then followed me, making lewd suggestions until I went to a friends house. I'm in late middle age for God's sake. I'm not saying any woman should have to put up with it, but this felt worryingly unnatural. Quite scary really.

I was born in the mid-1950s. Your DM is talking tripe. If anything, things were worse back then, IMO.