Mock the Past: Bonus Content

An extra one for Saturday. Why were people like that 70 years ago? This might have something to do with it:

Mock the Past: And Finally...

Draw your own conclusions.

Mock the Past: Vintage Sexism

Well that's... better?

Mock the Past: Vintage Racism 3

Um, yeah. Wow. I'm... I'm just going to stop with the vintage racism now.

Let's instead lighten the mood by pointing out that this image (the first panel of a comic strip entitled "Sambo, Sue and Jolly Golly", by the way) and the two before it all came from the following 1940 children's annual:

Uncle Jack's Joy-Book? Enough of the unsavoury old-time prejudice -- let's get back to some good, clean paedophile references!

Mock the Past: Vintage Racism 2

From offensive Asian stereotypes to offensive African stereotypes:

I should mention that this one is from the same book as yesterday's -- you didn't have to look far for your racism in the 40s.

Mock the Past: Vintage Racism 1

Something different this week: time to offload a pile of images that best serve as a reminder that the past is indeed another country. A country where this sort of thing is par for the course:

It gets worse.

I Say Nothing

Picked up a new book of source materials, whose cover I present without comment:

The Past Had it Coming

Time once again to derive comedy mileage from the mundane fact that words don't quite mean what they used to sometimes:

This one has the trifecta of "queer", "ejaculate" and an easily construed sexual innuendo! If only they'd managed to work "prophylactic" in there somehow, there'd be nothing left for me to do. Like, ever.

A Simpler Time

Something different for you today: Here's an original caption -- you can supply your own mental image.

Ah, for the days when "Father?" "ejaculate" and "gulp" could appear in the same sentence and escape comment...

You Can't Improve on Perfection

I swear to God, I have not altered this image (or the text) in any way:

It's funny, because the word "queer" has changed in meaning over time from "strange" to "lesbian, gay or transgender"! And the hockeystick looks like a massive dildo.

Mock the past. MOCK IT!