Talk:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness/@comment-11836-20160524045952/@comment-995426-20180109184447

As terrible as it sounds now (and yeah, especially if you were gay, it was just as terrible back then as it is now), a lot of otherwise reasonable people still thought things like that back in the 1980s and before. It was a time of greater stereotype and stigma and fear and ignorance and prejudiced attitudes. Things gradually changed for the better as younger generations became more tolerant and abandoned more of the prejudices their parents and grandparents harbor. Perhaps if this book were to be written today, it wouldn't say some of the things it said.