Fear Street Trilogy - Page 2

*IndigoErth* · 07-31-2021, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by sdp

Did anyone actually read any of those books as kids?

Oh yeah, I was in that target age group and still have a handful of them sitting around somewhere. (Then the spinoff Goosebumps came out that more or less targeted my younger sister's group and she had a few of those.) I definitely had some Fear Street books, though whatever they took this 3-part movie from isn't familiar.

R.L. Stine and the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books were part of the best era of kid's horror fiction a generation could have had.

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

"No homo." The solemn vow by every 90's and early 2000's kid.

Yeah, I definitely don't recall that being a 90s thing...

*CyberCubed* · 07-31-2021, 12:38 PM

"No Homo" was so mainstream it even has a wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_homo

And it's even on dictionary.com:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/no-homo/

*IndigoErth* · 07-31-2021, 01:25 PM

Well it does say it started in your city. I never heard it back then though, def more of a 2000s thing here.

*CyberCubed* · 07-31-2021, 01:31 PM

I just meant everywhere. Somehow even before the internet was mainstream and before people had cell phones, a lot of us teens growing up knew about the phrase, "No homo." I don't know how, maybe it spread through TV osmosis or something.

For example if a man would look into another mans eyes while talking too long, the other man might get the wrong idea, so you would say, "No homo" to make your intentions clear.

Or in the locker room when all men are just in their shorts, a man might brush up against another mans leg while walking through the halls by accident (due to it being crowded), and you would say, "No homo" just to be clear you weren't purposely grinding someone in the locket room and it was an accident. It was basically a "safety net" for us men.

*IndigoErth* · 07-31-2021, 01:53 PM

Here I thought I lived in a part of the "everywhere." Where, yes, I still didn't hear it back then.

I dunno, I guess you guys were getting into some stuff I wasn't aware of, and then pretending you weren't. I mean, shouldn't the "no homo" thing just be a given...unless it was secretly wanted.

Come on, those brush ups weren't really accidents, were they; then just say it so no one gets hit.

*The Deadman* · 07-31-2021, 03:14 PM

I honestly dont know what Cubed is more interested in, the movies themselves or the fact that they wrote characters in 2021 as lesbians in 1994 and expected it to be accurate.

*Andrew NDB* · 07-31-2021, 03:45 PM

I mean, it's not as weird as Stranger Things season 3. A proud lesbian out in school at what, like age 15? In like 1983? And everyone's just like, "huh, that's cool I guess, I didn't know"? In like a pretty rural place?

*Turo602* · 07-31-2021, 06:57 PM

Maybe Cubed lives in a dome like in The Truman Show which is why his whole world is so small and EVERYONE went to the same 3 schools he's been to.

*Leo656* · 07-31-2021, 08:55 PM

In the 80s you could still get beaten up (or worse) for being gay in high school so I agree that a movie or show set in the 80s probably wouldn't have too many openly gay characters. But by the 90s things were a bit different, thankfully.

*CyberCubed* · 08-03-2021, 01:18 PM

It was that way through the early 2000's as well. I was in high school from 2000-2003, nobody would have ever admitted they were gay willingly back then in the open. I'm pretty sure it was that way up until at least 2010, as I remember people still using "gay" as an insult all the way up to then even on online forums where most users were still teenagers at the time, so it was what they were used to.

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Leo656 The Franchise Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,696	In the 80s you could still get beaten up (or worse) for being gay in high school so I agree that a movie or show set in the 80s probably wouldn't have too many openly gay characters. But by the 90s things were a bit different, thankfully. __________________ "I left some words quite far from here to be a short reminder... I laid them out in stone, in case they need to last forever..." "But hey... I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know." nWo Tech: The Official Thread Poison of the Technodrome Forums https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr...awnHgDz1ceDcfA https://theroxxshow.blogspot.com/

07-31-2021, 12:38 PM	#22
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 41,050	"No Homo" was so mainstream it even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_homo And it's even on dictionary.com: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/no-homo/

07-31-2021, 01:25 PM	#23
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 15,242	Well it does say it started in your city. I never heard it back then though, def more of a 2000s thing here.

07-31-2021, 01:31 PM	#24
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 41,050	I just meant everywhere. Somehow even before the internet was mainstream and before people had cell phones, a lot of us teens growing up knew about the phrase, "No homo." I don't know how, maybe it spread through TV osmosis or something. For example if a man would look into another mans eyes while talking too long, the other man might get the wrong idea, so you would say, "No homo" to make your intentions clear. Or in the locker room when all men are just in their shorts, a man might brush up against another mans leg while walking through the halls by accident (due to it being crowded), and you would say, "No homo" just to be clear you weren't purposely grinding someone in the locket room and it was an accident. It was basically a "safety net" for us men.

07-31-2021, 01:53 PM	#25
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 15,242	Here I thought I lived in a part of the "everywhere." Where, yes, I still didn't hear it back then. I dunno, I guess you guys were getting into some stuff I wasn't aware of, and then pretending you weren't. I mean, shouldn't the "no homo" thing just be a given...unless it was secretly wanted. Come on, those brush ups weren't really accidents, were they; then just say it so no one gets hit.

08-03-2021, 01:18 PM	#30
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 41,050	It was that way through the early 2000's as well. I was in high school from 2000-2003, nobody would have ever admitted they were gay willingly back then in the open. I'm pretty sure it was that way up until at least 2010, as I remember people still using "gay" as an insult all the way up to then even on online forums where most users were still teenagers at the time, so it was what they were used to.