On the basis of your cartoon’s layout, Politicians are center stage. Good thing I don’t have to choose because I don’t trust any of the groups. There’s a lot of bad science out there. And maybe one good politician, but no one comes to mind right now.
As the extreme feminist geek nerd woman I am, I must needs tell you that a mere 75 years ago, the Lysol company actually ran advertisements in women's magazines extolling their product's virtue as a means of feminine hygiene. Yes, I'm serious. You can google it if you don't believe me, but my source is Lynn Peril's excellent book, "Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons." Peril hypothesized that the real reason Lysol was so successful in selling its product for this purpose is that women believed it would induce abortion, but that's just a sidelight. All of which is to say, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I grew up in a Southern Baptist church where literally every other month they had like a pledge drive to pay for more, bigger buildings, even after they had literally a whole block of my hometown. It was my first clue that something was not right with the folks doing the asking.
On the basis of your cartoon’s layout, Politicians are center stage. Good thing I don’t have to choose because I don’t trust any of the groups. There’s a lot of bad science out there. And maybe one good politician, but no one comes to mind right now.
As the extreme feminist geek nerd woman I am, I must needs tell you that a mere 75 years ago, the Lysol company actually ran advertisements in women's magazines extolling their product's virtue as a means of feminine hygiene. Yes, I'm serious. You can google it if you don't believe me, but my source is Lynn Peril's excellent book, "Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons." Peril hypothesized that the real reason Lysol was so successful in selling its product for this purpose is that women believed it would induce abortion, but that's just a sidelight. All of which is to say, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Great comment.
I grew up in a Southern Baptist church where literally every other month they had like a pledge drive to pay for more, bigger buildings, even after they had literally a whole block of my hometown. It was my first clue that something was not right with the folks doing the asking.
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