I don't think so. Older generations seem to me much more risk-averse than recent ones. You had many people who were pretty aware how dumb such stunts were back then. Two factors come to my mind - there were much more toxic masculinity vibes and more importantly - much less awareness for safety and incidents than nowadays.

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potato3732842 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's no incentive to take risk in a world where you can be half literate and go punch the clock at your dead end job riveting spring hangers onto Chevrolets to afford a house and a car and a stay at home wife and not have to worry about retirement because stonks will go up as you sell the country's industry to overseas.

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amy_petrik 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> there were much more toxic masculinity vibes \

I am very sorry to say toxic masculinity is returning. We girls really need to be getting out there and keeping down men, it's for their own good, lest they literally be flinging themselves off cliffs.

	▲	ryandv 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> We girls really need to be getting out there and keeping down men, it's for their own good, I wholeheartedly agree. What western society needs is a matriarchy that will take care of its own and suppress any subversive elements. I can't wait for scientists to demonstrate that testosterone is actually a poison and the main cause of toxic masculinity. In a more civilized era, children assigned to any sex at birth will be dosed with exogenous estrogen starting from age 5 in order to optimize and civilize their development.