# Freakouts of the Right **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2022-04-28T22:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/241 "2022-12-10T20:51:52Z")
Thank you, Sunup. Will make a fair number of changes, I appreciate your research. As you can tell, there’s a cluster in the 1930s, much of which I based on the reaction to the New Deal as opposed to any true research as to when these issues were originated. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/242 "2022-12-10T20:55:02Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > #6 & 7 - Hays (of Hays Code fame) got started on “cleaning up” Hollywood in 1922, though the code dates to 1934. Nitpick: The code was published by _Variety_ in February, 1930 and adopted by the MPPDA, predecessor to MPAA and headed by Hays, in March. However nobody got serious about it until 1934 when Hayes appointed Joseph Breen as administrator. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Thou_Shalt_Not_-_Whitey_Schafer_-_1940.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Thou_Shalt_Not_-_Whitey_Schafer_-_1940.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/243 "2022-12-10T21:05:19Z")
Thanks for the nitpick. Love that picture - and it would be a caution in the modern film industry also, thanks to the cigarette! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/244 "2022-12-10T21:06:08Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > #14 - _The Closing of the American Mind_, 1987, or maybe _God and Man at Yale_, 1951? 14 actually refers to a specific controversy which ruled the early-Limbaugh airwaves, where Stanford had a class named “Western Culture” which, for many students, might be the _only_ history course needed to graduate (depending upon major). The Right blew it up to a “people hate Western Civilization” bruhaha, complete with racist implications. > **[1980s](https://exhibits.stanford.edu/stanford-stories/feature/1980s)** 16 - Will put 1982. Close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/245 "2022-12-11T00:33:57Z")
JohnT, thanks for this amazing project. (And thanks to contributors in the thread.) American cultural and political history is already richer for the debates this is inspiring. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/246 "2022-12-11T00:39:53Z")
I mean, if I’m going pre-2k, I have to include the animal responsible for destroying more American jobs than New Deal Socialism itself: The Spotted Owl ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/247 "2022-12-11T00:45:36Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > JohnT, thanks for this amazing project. (And thanks to contributors in the thread.) Thank you! I’m actually having… ideas. Stay tuned! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/248 "2022-12-12T07:53:20Z")
What about Janet Jackson’s nipple? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/249 "2022-12-12T07:58:01Z")
#46 on the list… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/250 "2022-12-12T07:58:47Z")
Looked right over it. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/251 "2022-12-12T12:31:28Z")
Toilets: Ya gotta flush them 16 times/Can’t take a decent shower anymore? I think that might have started in 1200 B.C. though. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/252 "2022-12-12T16:09:31Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Toilets: That is #246, But it did remind me of paper straw freakout which is not on the list as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/253 "2022-12-12T16:13:44Z")
Noted. Looks like a 2018 issue: > **[Why the World Is Hating on Plastic Straws Right Now](https://www.eater.com/2018/7/12/17555880/plastic-straws-environment-pollution-banned-alternatives-ocean-sea-turtle-viral-video)** > > Everything you need to know about the now-ubiquitous movement to #StopSucking ---
**Author:** ![PackerMan2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/packerman2/32/2894_2.png) [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/254 "2022-12-12T16:42:46Z")
Paul Whelan. A week ago none of these dipshits had ever heard of him and/or didn’t give a rat’s ass. They still don’t but any way to criticize Biden for choosing an America-hating black lesbian over a white man. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/255 "2022-12-12T16:49:20Z")
Dildoes and buttplugs being sold in Target? Not sure it has quite reached a freakout, but give it a couple days to make it into more of their talking points. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/256 "2022-12-12T16:50:46Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Dildoes and buttplugs being sold in Target? Is this true? My wife works checkout there, and maybe I should warn her… ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/257 "2022-12-12T16:55:17Z")
MTG is spouting this crap and I think she heard it from Tucker Carlson. I don’t know if CVS is really selling them, but I’m fairly certain Target is not. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene has a very important shopping tip for you this...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/11/2141288/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-has-a-very-important-shopping-tip-for-you-this-Christmas-season?utm_campaign=trending)** > > Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attended an event hosted by the New York Young Republican Club on Saturday night, and she hit on all the usual themes: Nancy Pelosi is bad, trans youth should be denied basic health care, Donald Trump needs to... > **[Fox News Reporter Informs Tucker Carlson CVS Is Now Selling Butt Plugs and...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-reporter-informs-tucker-carlson-cvs-is-now-selling-butt-plugs-and-anal-lube-at-a-relative-bargain/)** > > Trace Gallagher informed Tucker Carlson on Friday night that butt plugs and other sex toys are now available for purchase at select CVS stores in New York. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/258 "2022-12-12T17:03:24Z")
It appears at least one CVS in Chicago (on Michigan Ave.) does carry the “Buzzy Butt” personal massager featured in that clip. I really couldn’t care less. This [link](https://www.cvs.com/shop/hello-cake-buzzy-butt-backside-rechargeable-personal-massager-prodid-435559) to that page is probably NSFW by the way. Looking at Target online it appears they offer a variety of items if you search for “personal vibrator” but none of them fall in the category of what I would consider a butt plug. Most of them seem to be in the category of an “intimate” massager marketed to women, if you follow. Again, I couldn’t really care less about this type of thing. If the worry is that a child will see one of these in the store and be traumatized I would think the concern should be more about why a child would even realize what they are. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/259 "2022-12-12T17:36:51Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > MTG is spouting this crap and I think she heard it from Tucker Carlson. I don’t know if CVS is really selling them, but I’m fairly certain Target is not. Enough people will probably search for it online at Target and CVS out of curiosity that they will start selling them. Tucker and MTG will get their wish. It’s a Festivus miracle. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/260 "2022-12-12T17:39:11Z")
Wonder what’ll happen when MTG discovers that Target sells vibrating cock rings too? > **[Trojan Vibrations Tandem Couples Vibrating Ring - 1ct](https://www.target.com/p/trojan-vibrations-tandem-couples-vibrating-ring-1ct/-/A-75665002)** > > Read reviews and buy Trojan Vibrations Tandem Couples Vibrating Ring - 1ct at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=14)