That used to be the stereotype in the past, but at least as far back as I recall (late Gen-Xer), it wasn’t as prevalent an attitude as most people thought. Past feminist influence reduced a lot of that pressure but now it’s coming back via manosphere essentialism.
Sure, that’s true. It’s all anecdotal but I’m also thinking of how people talked at the time in general.
When I wrote that I was thinking mostly of everyone I knew in my uni years and into my 20s (esp. with the sexual freedom stuff) but I also had in the back of my mind that I saw peers experience teen pregnancy when I was in high school, and there was stuff in the wider media about it being a problem. (In my elementary school, we all got Sex Ed classes, too.)
That was an age old problem that I hear has recently been reduced significantly. (Probably helps if not just the kids but also parents got sex education early in life.)
That used to be the stereotype in the past, but at least as far back as I recall (late Gen-Xer), it wasn’t as prevalent an attitude as most people thought. Past feminist influence reduced a lot of that pressure but now it’s coming back via manosphere essentialism.
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Sure, that’s true. It’s all anecdotal but I’m also thinking of how people talked at the time in general.
When I wrote that I was thinking mostly of everyone I knew in my uni years and into my 20s (esp. with the sexual freedom stuff) but I also had in the back of my mind that I saw peers experience teen pregnancy when I was in high school, and there was stuff in the wider media about it being a problem. (In my elementary school, we all got Sex Ed classes, too.)
That was an age old problem that I hear has recently been reduced significantly. (Probably helps if not just the kids but also parents got sex education early in life.)