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Lordosass67 t1_je6f9tz wrote

Reply to comment by spaghettimiilk in Jennifer Aniston Says ‘A Whole Generation of Kids’ Finds ‘Friends’ Offensive: ‘You Have to Be Very Careful’ With Comedy Now by Neo2199

Man I was Angel recently and hearing Charisma Carpenters character call her friend a "lesbo" was a wake up call.

There was shit being said in network television during the 1990s-2000s that has essentially been relegated to Alt-Right channels like Rebel News and InfoWars.

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Turqoise-Planet t1_je7blig wrote

Lesbo wasn't considered offensive back then. There are a lot of words that started off inoffensive, but then became considered offensive over time. A century ago "retarded" was considered an actual medical term, and was used in textbooks (it literally means "slow"). Now its very offensive.

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Maninhartsford t1_je7go52 wrote

Through the 80s at least! There's a fantastic episode of the 80s twilight zone by George RR Martin that has a lot of moments land strangely now because of how they're using the word as a medical term. The infamous quantum leap reveal also comes to mind. Though I'm sure the word was already being used as an insult at the time, there simply wasn't another word for it.

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zsreport t1_jeaafja wrote

Back when "Law & Order" was still on TNT, I caught an airing of an episode where a character dropped the N-word, was a bit jarring to hear that on what was originally a network broadcast show.

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