I feel bad for our parents' generation. They were every bit as propagandized as we are but they didn't have the internet to discuss this bullshit with others and find out it never works.

All of those things your mom told you were what the best doctors, best specialists and every TV personality were telling everyone at the time. Now add another generation's worth of that same propaganda and you can see how we get kids cutting off their genitals because 'You're fine the way you are' turned into 'You can't do anything wrong.'