stacys mom turned me into a frog!
im eating flies and live inside a log!
stacy cant you see she has placed a spell on me!
now im in a bog and look just like a small green frog
a lot of people seem to have trouble accepting that cynical embittered teenagers are literally right about the education system. in fact when people express that something is making them suffer suicidally it generally means there is something wrong. big news for people who desperately fucking hate kids
That's because in older generations, milk was framed as a stupid children's drink for children, so teens and adults didn't drink it. After all, a cool 17-year-old doesn't want to look like a BABY in front of her even cooler friends! This was especially true for girls and women of the time, who might also stop drinking milk in an attempt to lose weight.
As a result, practically an entire generation developed osteoporosis and other health problems due to a lifelong lack of Vitamin D and calcium. Ask any woman you know over 50 and she'll probably have a story like "oh yeah no one drank milk and I really regret it because a light breeze will break all my bones." For one example, my mother-in-law has a calcium deficiency that is affecting her health. But because she hasn't drank milk in like 60 years, it's both hard to get in the habit of having a glass, plus the texture is kind of gross to her since she's not used to it. Which in turn makes it harder to fix the deficiency.
So go back to the early 90s, and combine public health officials desperate to prevent another generation of vitamin-deprived kids, 90s parents looking for alternatives to soda to give their kids, and dairy farmers around the US concerned with their low sales, and you get the Got Milk campaign.
(Please note this is just me giving historical context to weird retro ads. I'm aware that there's other ways to get nutrients in your diet, and I'm not saying anyone HAS to drink cow milk specifically)
Tony Hawk's secret weapon.
I think we could all benefit from learning how to sit with discomfort
We live in a world where one’s personal discomfort is weaponized to justify bigotry or stripping of bodily autonomy
We need to learn that others’ lives don’t and shouldn’t cater around our own personal icks
