Comparative Propaganda
Apr. 27th, 2024 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyLast night I was talking about how Baby Amelia was extremely baffled by the phrase "drug store," on account of the D.A.R.E. guys and all the cartoon characters said drugs are BAD, so why would they allow a store for them?
DAD: Hey, the drug store is where I learned about Nazis!
ME: What
DAD: I dunno, there were these--they weren't comics, but they had comic-like COVERS? There were always babes on the covers--
ME: Why can I picture the babes. Like, the art style. Why is that in my head.
DAD: --and there were all sorts of Nazis and stuff.
ME:
ME: OHHH! Men's adventure magazines!
ME: Weasels ripped my flesh!
ME: With manly guys on the cover, like, wrestling alligators--
DAD: Or Nazis!
ME: --Nazi alligators, and barely clothed babes in peril!
ME: *grabs phone; image search*
DAD: THOSE ARE THE ONES
ME: So that's how you learned about Nazis?
DAD: That was the big impression I got of them. Menacing hot babes
ME: And the manly guys had to beat them up, huh
MOM: We were born 10 years after WWII; nobody talked about it to us, I guess
ME: Probably traumatized by all the peril
.. So at least the pulp propaganda had a grip on "Nazis=bad" to teach the impressionable baby boomers, anyway? ... it occurs to me that this may have kindled a fetish in at least a few boomers, which may explain a lot, too
DAD: Hey, the drug store is where I learned about Nazis!
ME: What
DAD: I dunno, there were these--they weren't comics, but they had comic-like COVERS? There were always babes on the covers--
ME: Why can I picture the babes. Like, the art style. Why is that in my head.
DAD: --and there were all sorts of Nazis and stuff.
ME:
ME: OHHH! Men's adventure magazines!
ME: Weasels ripped my flesh!
ME: With manly guys on the cover, like, wrestling alligators--
DAD: Or Nazis!
ME: --Nazi alligators, and barely clothed babes in peril!
ME: *grabs phone; image search*
DAD: THOSE ARE THE ONES
ME: So that's how you learned about Nazis?
DAD: That was the big impression I got of them. Menacing hot babes
ME: And the manly guys had to beat them up, huh
MOM: We were born 10 years after WWII; nobody talked about it to us, I guess
ME: Probably traumatized by all the peril
.. So at least the pulp propaganda had a grip on "Nazis=bad" to teach the impressionable baby boomers, anyway? ... it occurs to me that this may have kindled a fetish in at least a few boomers, which may explain a lot, too
