“Friends is for some reason wildly popular with middle schoolers right now, and one of my daughter’s best friends kept telling her she should watch it. It’s a show that I enjoyed in its first seasons — it debuted my senior year of high school — but I knew it hadn’t aged well, so I told her if she wanted to watch it, I’d love to watch together,” Rebecca told BuzzFeed.
“Before we started, I told her there were going to be representations of queer and trans characters that were offensive, and we talked about how the show whitewashed New York City. She’s personally very big on LGBTQ rights and history, and her generation on the whole is much better prepared than mine was to look for systemic racism and sexism and to notice something like the fat-shaming that occurs on the show, so when I point those things out as we watch I get a lot of eye-rolling. She’s an eighth grader; I’m used to it.”
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferadams2/things-from-friends-gen-z-doesnt-know
