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That description is transphobic as fuck
The 80s were a different time. Honestly I'm surprised Mario wasn't originally on coke. And Luigi, and Toad.......AND OBVIOUSLY royal princess peach can get the good shit.
But as it pertained to sexuality, being homophobic, being transphobic, it was the norm in the 80s.
And it was worse too, because racism absolutely existed in the 80s, just as it always has. However people in the 80s knew racism was wrong, and bad. Even in the 80s, you knew you didn't want to be known as a racist.
But when it came to sexuality in the 80s, it was cool to call someone a fag, or laugh at a man in a dress, or anything that wasn't "straight guy, straight girl, or two straight girls exparementing with each other at a party for others entertainment."
So today if someone asked "Did you just call (obviously gay person) gay???", you'd be mortified that they thought that about you.
Back in the 80s, you'd say "Hell yeah I did!!!" and then you'd high five them. Because back then, putting people down for sexuality was seen as today putting someone down for being a pedophile. If some today asked you if you were sexually attracted to young kids, you'd be repulsed and say no. But if you were British Royalty you could go to any house in your kingdom, take any child, and then tell the parents you're taking their kid to live with you as a sex slave. Today we're past that. We've gotten to the point where we all agree thats wrong. But in the 1600s, English peasants would brag to each other that THEIR kid was chosen by the king. Like it were an honor, rather than an arrestable offense it is today.
As we advance as a species, we'll look back at centuries ago and say "what were they thinking???"
Then again, theres about 13 undiscovered, lost, still armed nuclear bombs that the Americans lost in test drops. Mostly dropped into oceans, they've been deteriorating away for 70ish years. Wherever they are an earthquake could set them off. Maybe an aggressive shark. The point is, there are 13 points which we KNOW at some point, will set off a WWII era atomic bomb. This will have an unknown outcome, 13 different times. Any one of which might end Earth. Or maybe it causes some tidal waves. No one knows.
Another thing nobody knows is how many atomic bombs the Russians lost.
My point is, we all might might die, because of a war that ended 34 years ago. Of which, the whole point is to NOT use nukes. (Oops)
We may NEVER get to see the moment that humans have progressed through their own toxicity.
Hell I'm surprised you said the three letter f-word..... That's basically become the n-word for gay people, only without the "Members of the minority group in question are allowed to say it." loophole
As a gay man- at least in my local community, the loophole does exist, and I've heard a good number of queer people use it (though only in conversations with people they know will be comfortable with it). 🤷
I don't necessarily take issue with it being used in a clinical tone like this. Context is context tho, and I don't speak for everybody ofc. °_o