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.
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.
Thanks for the nitpick. Love that picture - and it would be a caution in the modern film industry also, thanks to the cigarette!
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.
16 - Will put 1982. Close enough.
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.
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
Thank you! I’m actually having… ideas. Stay tuned!
What about Janet Jackson’s nipple?
#46 on the list…
Looked right over it.
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.
That is #246,
But it did remind me of paper straw freakout which is not on the list as far as I can tell.
Noted. Looks like a 2018 issue:
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.
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.
Is this true? My wife works checkout there, and maybe I should warn her…
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.
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 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.
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.
Wonder what’ll happen when MTG discovers that Target sells vibrating cock rings too?