[ SECRET POST #6998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6998 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

You know, I have to agree. MTV understood their audience skewed young, and lucky for us Gen Xers were pushing for social progress and more real and relatable media that those who had the power let them try so many different aspects of youth culture. Like, The Real World more or less paved the way to reality tv, and honestly, watching people argue over petty shit is boring...but it opened opportunities for those of us watching to talk about things like race relations/struggles, queer culture, the dynamics of men and women (or men's/women's relationships with the same sex), family struggles and being a shitty 20-something with shitty circumstances.

I also took note of how much I learned from....teen girls' and women's magazines! Growing up, I heard a lot of "dumb girls read magazines and get brainwashed to obsess over advertisements and shallow things like fashion and makeup" arguments as to why reading magazines is vapid...which has grains of truth there...but a lot of these magazines were doing some great work too. Readers submitting their own real and fictional stories, journalists/writers given money and resources for well written articles (I learned about the caste system in India and how the Untouchables were ostracized when I was like 15, living in a small hick town in the middle of whitebred American suburbia, because a women's magazines had a long article where the journalist spent time with people in the Untouchables caste, following them as they tried to find work).

Here's to media that had pockets of good influence!🥂🍻🧋
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