Are we sensitive as a generation? Or were we just really trash?

I sit and ponder this as I bustle between my Tumblr, Facebook, and Instagram accounts. The jokes we used to tell and laugh at a couple years ago are now seen as triggering, problematic, or damaging. And I agree. To a degree. Now that “drag culture” is the new wave, a lot of people are more selective to what comes out of their mouth, or what they post. Most are not wanting to be seen as that trash person that no one likes.

The dark skin jokes, the fat jokes, and others along that nature, were enough to get some gut busting laughter back in my adolescence and childhood, but now that I sit and think back: how many dark skinned children were made to hate themselves because of the cruel jokes? Or how many overweight children who had to endure the jokes and cracks at their expense?

So when I see people complain about how this generation is overly sensitive and jokes are just jokes, I have to ask: do we really think about how damaging a simple joke can be?