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Honestly, the 90s was a shit time for many LGBTQ people and often PoCs as well. Can we have (at least) todays levels of wokeness? Oh and today levels of healthcare... and today levels of assistive technology for people needing assistance, oh and...
We don't need to recreate every aspect.
Treat it like a Ren Faire.
Wear the No Fear shirts and carry a Walkman, but do it for fun.
Sit back, watch some Reading Rainbow or Erie Indiana.
Maybe sing the Song that Never Ends.
It's all play acting, but it's nice. Especially if we focus on the nice parts of the 90s, the stuff that led to the wokeness of today.
radical anachronism
I'm down for that
Ya, and maybe we can have "Blockbuster's" and it'll be a co-op clone of the og.
I'm down for anything co-op
Is a co-op clone just a community library with extra steps?
Libraries are state run, unbranded, and mostly lend, Blonkboster's would be a company, just much less shitty.
"Community" library. Like those stations where people store books to share with their neighbors for free.
Blonkboster's is legally distinct from Blockbuster's and it smells the same, but i say you can still taste the hog anus when you get blasted by the air freshener
Yeah I really don't want to have to lie to my doctor and say I'm into men to get my estrogen
"sorry boss can't work today, i'm feeling homosexual"
Lol, I've considered calling out for that reason before when my wife's being really cute.
But yeah in the 90s a lot of medical professionals helping trans people still believed that people who are really trans had to meet a bunch of highly gender conforming expectations, including transitioning to heterosexuality. The good news of course was you could lie to your doctor.
i got better healthcare in the 90s dude. but i needed less back then, so i got whatever i asked for.