Squarr existed pre-squid leaving. Thats not to say he didn’t have two concurrent accounts though. Either way, he’s equally annoying. Its him and others in his style that annoy me the most on this site.

I want to agree with you and then i remember trying to squeeze my 7th grade ass into the ultra low cut jeans of the early 2000s and shirts that were always like 1 inch too short and i have renewed will to fight.

I’d live in 1982 to 1990-ish fashion in a heart beat. Its like 2000-2006 that’s the real tragedy. See: ANTM season 1-6 for confirmation.

I wonder if the same is true of birth control in straight women. Take birth control of avoid big scare (pregnancy) and run the risk of contracting STIs because you dont have the same deterrant. 

We dont overprescribe antiretrovirals so it isnt as much of a concern. Also, the problem with antibiotic resistance is that the diseases typically werent mutating that quickly (think of how long just penicillin alone has been effective) until we started overprescribing them. Meanwhile, HIV mutates at a much faster…

The post 9/11 world was what set me on ‘88-ish because of what 9/11 meant to us at the time. Another commenter brought up doing maybe a late, middle, and early millennial period which i like.

Thats funny, i was just thinking when i wrote my comment that you could divide by “had AIM, had a myspace account, or had facebook” or “remembers 9/11" and get a pretty accurate split too.

I agree. If i had my way, gen x would go up to ‘88-ish, gen y would go up to around 2003 and z from then on.

I hear ‘81 to 2001 or ‘85 t0 2005 a lot.

Younger millennials too if they grew up in a rural area. My cell wasn’t reliable around my home until 2010-ish.

You could hear a faint echo on mine growing up.

Absolutely. I admit my opinion is somewhat colored by this being a fairly popular plot in romantic novels (I pictured For Such A Time when i read the title of this article and cringed so hard, i might have sprained something), and it is very very bad.

Youre absolutely correct, but I am still concerned about imparting a 21st century attitude on a character in the 1930s. xenophobia would be the norm at the time, at least societally. So, an accurate character from this time period would likely hold some fuck up views that it would be the female characters job to…

I think its possible to do right, but I think its exponentially harder to do as a romance. I would worry that it would place too much emphasis on love righting his attitude, implying that he only changed his attitude because someone he cares about is affected which isnt awesome. Also, i don’t want to put the girl in…

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I see what you’re saying, but am worried that this puts the burden on the female character to just accept the past actions of the male character. I cant imagine a relationship where a minority has to patiently explain why genocide is wrong and forgive past actions of a nazi, would be romantic. Also, i would be…

Most werent mustache twirling villians in kids cartoons, but germany is the 1930s and 40s is a good example of what happens when you let cowardice and xenophobia rule a country. The big issue with the mustache twirling characterization imo is the implication that those people were evil and this could never happen…

It would be super hard to handle it well. I see three options: 1). Nazi is a decent guy who then becomes the white savior who both acknowledges that everyone in his social circle is basically evil and fight for good. Not horrible, but not great either. 2). Nazi is a decent guy, but minimizes the actions (or the film…

Yep, some antibiotics lessen the effectiveness if BC! Spread the news!

At least require guys pay for birth costs. Ive never once heard of a child support bill (where parenta split up pre-birth) that required men to pay half of the birth costs. Just like with everything else, guy pays what he can based on a judges opinion and then women ate onligated to make up the difference if it…