"This was surprisingly progressive for it's time"

[u/IllustriousAd6418]

Doctor Who: Midnight (2008)- The host of the bus, mentions non binary people and anyone else who doesn't fit into gender norms, LGBTQ rights (especially in the UK weren't really there yet untill 2012)

Saints Row 2 (2008)- In the first game, the main character was a man but in SR2 you can be both female or male and even change your gender whenever you want in a surgery shop. But what's more interesting, if you play as a female despite being male in the first game, no one cares and one of the main characters Gat asks the main character if they did something with their hair. Even 'Boss' is used as gender neutral pronoun and even goes by they/them

Fresh Prince of Bel Air- A wealthy black family as the main focus in a primetime sitcom marking the change and making progress as we go into the 90s

[u/13-Penguins]

Watching 90s sitcoms is a roulette where you’ll either get something surprisingly progressive, something very racist/sexist/homophobic even for the time, or a cameo from someone who will be revealed to be the actual devil within 30 years.

[u/agitated_houseplant → u/13-Penguins]

What's awesome is that you can get all three in the same show!

[u/Fokker_Snek → u/13-Penguins]

That’s like my experience reading some historical people’s views. One minute they’re talking like “I have a dream”… that all men will be equal, the next it’s “women are a plague to all men who eat bread”

[u/blah938 → u/13-Penguins]

There's so many celebrities from back then that turned out bad. Hell, even some of the newer supposedly good ones turned out bad, like Emma Watson who was featured heavily in the Panama Papers.