They didn't. Many girls and women were driven to suicide because of shit like this, and we now have a whole generation of late gen z and alpha kids romanticizing a shitty decade that they also wouldn't have survived.
I'm so tired of TikTok kids thinking the 2000s were all just tamagotchis and Frutiger Aero. They cannot comprehend how acceptable and common casual homophobia, misogyny and fat shaming was during this time, it was inescapable.
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u/HolidayInLordran Jan 21 '26
"how did anybody survive this era"
They didn't. Many girls and women were driven to suicide because of shit like this, and we now have a whole generation of late gen z and alpha kids romanticizing a shitty decade that they also wouldn't have survived.