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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #?????#cannot imagine that ever happening.

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mostly-funnytwittertweets · 1 month

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#build a bear #twitter #meme #memes #tweets #tweet #funny #lol #humor

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six-tooth · 4 months

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he's a jerk but I love him he's my baby boy

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I took him out to dinner with his cute little pink sweater

#my art #fanart #the amazing digital circus #jax #the sweater is from build a bear if anyone was wondering

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thylacines-toybox · 8 months

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Cryptid sighting on my way home

#umbreon #pokemon #build a bear #plushie #toys #outdoor photo

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wiichannel · 9 months

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build a bear vault • pumpkin fun kitty

#toys #plush #build a bear #halloween #cat #kidcore #halloweencore #toywave #pumpkin #🧸

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this-doesnt-endd · 1 year

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It actually ruined my mall day which already wasnt given a fair chance cause it was a sunday so the mall is only open noon to 6 and at like 5:15 they were already trying to usher people out or not selling things and i didnt get to accomplish everything and this was supposed to be a MALL day which means the big mall and then the smaller one by the house

#i didnt even get to look at the claires!!#or build a bear #and EVERYONE young and old was walking around with their build a bears #i bearly passed by it #left with no little treat at all #cinnabun was sold out #and like its memorial day weekend i was trying to take full advantage of the sales abd i didnt get to #and the chance for next major mall day prolly isnt till 4th of july and if not then #then its before back to school

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plusie · 7 months

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