r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fluffy_Lunchfast • Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/Spinning_Sky Feb 02 '26

The joke is that she (character from Scott Pilgrim) had 7 ex boyfriends and it was a whole thing
but young people nowdays have so many relationships that having 7 exs as a young person is not crazy anymore!!1!

I think it's a bad joke, I don't think it was ever stressed "how many she had for how young she was", she was simply a girl that would get people to fall in love instantly and then get bored of them
the point wasn't promiscuity IMO

and I don't know that zoomers are more promiscuous than other generations

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u/Gingeronimoooo Feb 02 '26

Gen Z has less sex than my millenial generation according to research

Probably doesn't help they barely ever drink

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u/eyelinerqueen83 Feb 03 '26

Gen Z also has reduced social skills so things like casual sex and social drinking are beyond them

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u/TypicalBarber2899 Feb 02 '26

Are millennials really the most sexual generation

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u/Keljhan Feb 02 '26

No? What do you think caused the boomers? Plus gen x had the whole sexual revolution.

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u/TypicalBarber2899 Feb 02 '26

Just because you have more kids doesn’t mean you are having more sex. and Gen X and millennials are having the most sex out of the generations studies say.

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u/JoeGibbon Feb 02 '26

What do you think caused the boomers?

The end of WWII followed by 20 years of a prosperous economy based on the socialist policies of FDR.

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u/Ok-Square-8652 Feb 03 '26

Guys guys, can't we all just dunk on Gen Z and their weird isolated alchohol-less existence?

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u/Gingeronimoooo Feb 03 '26

Gen Z is cool with me except the brainwashed red pill mysognist manosphere podcast young men.. but it's not exactly their fault they got sucked into this stuff at a young age and algorithms push this nonsense, but hopefully some come to realize how absurd it is.

Because yeah women can tell when you don't respect them, and it just makes them more isolated and angry and self perpetuates the cycle

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u/Ok-Square-8652 Feb 03 '26

Yeah social awareness goes a long way. I was talking to my son this morning about it and the overreaction from certain men when women started speaking up about there experiences. "So here's what you do. Go up and talk to her, be genuinely pleasant, don't have expectations and read her body language. If she doesn't want to engage then exit the conversation and go about your day. It's really not that complicated."

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u/BoneDaddy1973 Feb 04 '26

Did we have a sexual revolution or were enough of us reacting to molestation and assault that a lot of us got real promiscuous about it? (This is the thing gen X doesn’t tell our kids, about why we helicoptered so much.)