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Old 05-11-2017, 10:42 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB View Post
As I recall... going back to the logic of a 7, 8, 9 year-old kid around other 7, 8 , 9 year-old kids, it seemed like at a certain point, the overall consensus was that liking He-Man meant you were "gay" or far worse yet, a "gaylord." Nobody wanted to be known as a lord of the gays, so that was that (seriously, that's about how I remember the quiet dying of He-Man's popularity). Ninja Turtles somehow avoided that stigma with other boys.
Only snobbish geek adults say He-Man is gay. I really don't know where that came from. I suppose it's these types of people condemning aspects of their childhood they don't find cool any more.
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