This is the second time on this thread you've suggested that in 1985 it was acceptable to threaten to commit suicide to coerce someone to date you. No, it was not.
No, but this is the second time that you have hallucinated that I did.
Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS
by dragonwriter on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:18AM
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> It is certainly inappropriate to say today. It may have been closer to being acceptable in 1985,
It was not.
> Remember, this was only one year after the movie Revenge of the Nerds was a lasting hit
Holy non-sequitur Batman!
> It was not.
I’ll take your word for it (and I upvoted your other comment which stated this).
> Holy non-sequitur Batman!
It was not a non-sequitur. It was an example meant to conclusively illustrate of how radically morals and attitudes (in the time period in question) differ from the current ones, even though we collectively might feel and remember otherwise.
Remember, this was only one year after the movie Revenge of the Nerds was a lasting hit (it spawned one theatrical sequel and two more TV sequels). Viewed with today’s eyes, the movie is unequivocally terrible, with rape perpetrated by the movie’s protagonist being played for laughs, among many other things. But it was not viewed as terrible by audiences at the time. However, the people who liked the movie at the time, and even the people who made the movie at the time have presumably changed in the intervening years, and may not deserve to be judged by something they did forty years ago.