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narrator on Jan 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eek, A Male

I remember when this all got started in the early 90s. The 80s were pretty mellow but then I think the Polly Klass murder in California was a watershed moment where the politicians and the news media just went for it with the insane anti-male paranoid stuff. All the school policies changed and everything got excessively locked down and paranoid.

sueders100 on Jan 18, 2011 [–]

The 80s weren't completely serene either though. That's when the whole day care sex abuse hysteria really picked up steam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_care_sex_abuse_hysteria

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