The Saturday Evening Post - Wikipedia
From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines among the American middle class, with fiction, nonfiction, cartoons, and features that reached two million homes every week.
No wonder
“Retarded” was the accepted clinical term at the time.
So was “Gay Bowl Syndrome”.
Lol I think you mean “bowel” mate, though I think we can all agree we love gay bowls too.
I think they’re speaking specifically about the noble game of gay bowling.
If coach would’ve put me in, we would’ve gone to state. No doubt in my mind.
A bit like “venereal disease”
When I was in fifth grade we had an activity one day where we made t-shirts by using transfer crayons and drawing on a special piece of paper and then ironing it onto our shirts. I was reading Heinlein’s The Star Beast at the time and I drew the creature from this edition’s cover for my shirt. I decided my creature was to be from the planet Venus, so I added the caption “VENEREAL POWER” to my iron-on drawing of a basically penis-shaped alien monster.
The teacher called me up to the desk and pointed to his dictionary which was open to the definition of the word “venereal” and I learned that day that it meant something other than “from Venus”. Meanwhile he was looking down at the floor and shaking slightly and it was only years later that I realized he was trying his best not to burst out laughing. He let me make the t-shirt anyway, and I really wish I still had it, but t-shirts don’t last 50 years.
I’m not familiar, why was that term phased out?
VD had a moral failure connotation because of limited colloquial knowledge (and ofc religion). Since VD was viewed as a moral failure and not medical necessity people weren’t getting medical attention as the diagnosis was shameful. So there was a deliberate effort to switch to STDs. More recently the switch is to STIs to include non-symptomatic infections.
I know someone that VD Jance from a couch.
The word can still be used in it’s used, you shouldn’t use it against people who have down syndrome etc. It also means to have slowed down or delayed thoughts or ideas. Marx used it. It was one of the first words banned. I used to get very offended by the word, because people used to laugh at disabled people and use the word. I’d laugh as well because I used to just be infected by laughter. It’s the laugh track effect, when I met people who genuinely laughed at disabled people and that word it made me feel sick, I never wanted to ban the word though. Banning words is bad. It helps bad people hide bad intentions and gives people a fake morale shield to hide behind. People tried to tell me the slippery slope argument was a logical fallacy when I pointed it out. Not using bad words is fine banning people for using them isn’t.
I remember when people started using the n word, and I was just this stupid nerd who said it was bad. The r word offends me less when used correctly. The only reason some fascists care about down syndrome and the r word is because they have it in their family see Shane Gillis
I remember when people started using the n word
The sixteenth century?
I also love the juxtaposition of the mythological Americana artwork with headlines like “What Shall We Do about Communist Teachers?”
this is an american national treasure
they all sound like stories for Fox news - if you change Vietnam to Iran
“How the mind works”. Can’t believe how bad that sentence is. Sends shivers down my spine.
If you don’t read this out loud in the Rod Sterling voice the HUAC sends an FBI kill team to your location
