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dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-25 21:22:00

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char: captain marvel/billy batson, era: golden age

Captain "Skinny Dipper" Marvel
Yep, busted. WHIZ COMICS# 50. If he turns back, will Billy be nekkid too or will he have on that red sweater and blue pants outfit?

It's often a jolt to read old books and realize how society has changed in ways that we hardly notice anymore. Boys and girls up into their teens used to go swimming naked in the summer (not together), usually in secluded swimming holes and ponds on someone's property or in some semi-hidden bend of the river. No one thought twice about it. Kids used to shower after gym class as a routine, too, and I imagine that has been long dropped. Something happened in the late 1950s or so that made people more apprehensive than before about their children. Walking a mile or so to catch the school bus or to get home after school was normal, kids used to disappear all day on Saturday or in the summer to play, and parents trusted them not to get in too much trouble (and they didn't). At the beginning of POLLYANNA, we see a bunch of young boys jumping into the old swimming hole, bare as when they were born and that was a Disney film. Maybe that still goes on deep in the backwoods of the South or the Midwest today, but I doubt it.

era: golden age, char: captain marvel/billy batson

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	dr_hermes 2009-09-26 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Here now! I did not put down the South and Midwest in any way. Mentioning regional customs is not criticism (especially since you should be able to tell from the tone of the post that I regret we've mostly lost the freedom and innocence that saw skinny-dipping as harmless). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-09-26 02:15 am UTC (link)
	No offense taken! There's no font for sarcasm, sadly. I was really kind of joking with you. It was the 'backwoods' that made me want to tease you about it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dr_hermes 2009-09-26 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Oh, okay. It's hard to tell tone of voice without, well tone of voice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-09-26 02:22 am UTC (link)
	True! Sorry for the misunderstanding. And it's not so much fear of injury re: the PE cuts. It's lack of money (art and music are cut as well) and academic focus being thought to be more important--for state mandated testing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dr_hermes 2009-09-26 02:36 am UTC (link)
	Still sad to hear. You might think we'd cut back on almost anything before schools. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_darkblade992 2009-09-26 04:24 am UTC (link)
	If only. Rarely do the people in charge of public funding look far enough ahead to realize what they are doing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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