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Old 05-30-2021, 03:57 AM   #283
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Not just kids.

It is really illuminating when you watch 1980s or '90s sit-coms just how prevalent and socially encouraged homopgobic slurs were. It is a weird experience of remembering how much I loved this show, to feeling embarrassed about how much of what passed for "funny" was at the expense of the gay community.

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One of the central premises of the most popular comedy (late 70s/early 80s) on TV was Jack Tripper pretending to be gay so that he wouldn’t get evicted for living in the same apartment as two girls.

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