Captain Poofter to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoTIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clotheslemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down16
arrow-up1179arrow-down1imageTIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clotheslemmy.worldCaptain Poofter to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareCaptain PoofterOPlinkfedilinkEnglish18•5 months agoThe old comics are wild. The male friends stripped Archie naked and forced him to swim in a lake with them in a comic once.
minus-squaremoxlinkEnglish15•edit-25 months agoMany forms of abuse that we know today (and the harm they cause) came to be recognized relatively recently. It makes me wonder what behaviors that are unremarkable now will be seen as horrible in future generations. I’m glad we’re learning, at least.
minus-square@deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months ago… And how many of our generation(s) will double down and rail against “woke nonsense”.
The old comics are wild. The male friends stripped Archie naked and forced him to swim in a lake with them in a comic once.
Many forms of abuse that we know today (and the harm they cause) came to be recognized relatively recently.
It makes me wonder what behaviors that are unremarkable now will be seen as horrible in future generations. I’m glad we’re learning, at least.
… And how many of our generation(s) will double down and rail against “woke nonsense”.
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