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kittiescatlover

Every body wants to be friends with kitty but Ultimately its kittys choice

jimmyhoffathecat

Photographing him like it’s found footage

important-cat-pics

really gotta give it to top surgery. man boobs are so much better than woman boobs

#this is probably incomprehensible

eliotheman

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media

lemonylemus

Great example

#this is a big thing in anthropology with franz boas #hes widely regarded as the first anti-racist anthropologists and fought tooth and nail against race science #and one of the first to actually treat the subjects of his study as actual people #but his works esp with the inuit people use some. lets say choice words.#same with mark twain and huckleberry finn

vintageandroid

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

pommedepersephone

1992 Los Angeles riots. My family was living in LA, we were actually just preparing to move so it's this weird mess of boxes and burning and my parents being outraged (not surprised) at the outcome of the trial. I feel like that being the first news story I can remember is very on brand since it was my parents who taught me how to protest.

kayleefansposts

Iran hostage crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

Mostly because it was part of the news, every night, for 14 months (444 days). And I remember when it ended, and they got to go home.

vaspider

I remember Diana & Charles getting married, bc I remember how big the train on her wedding dress was. I would have been... 3 or 4.

cleolinda

I vaguely remember the Iran-Contra scandal being on TV a lot when I was about 7-8, and it was like, I'm pretty sure I don't have to know about this yet. But somehow I kinda knew about it anyway.

nicbemused

The Coalinga earthquake in 1983. I was 7 and living mid-Central Valley at the time so we felt in pretty strongly and then it was on the news pretty shortly thereafter.

crescent-coral-base

Technically, one of my earliest childhood memories was coverage of the moon landing a few weeks before my third birthday.

I also remember Black September holding the Israeli Olympic team hostage in Munich in 1972.

Then for me came Watergate hearings, but I was seven and they were boring, so I didn't pay much attention to them. That was a story of interest only to grown-ups. Nixon resigned just before my eighth birthday.

The 1977 New York City blackout during the Summer of Sam. Down in Virginia, I remember the local affiliates of the Big Three going to static as they lost their signal feeds from New York. Our local ABC affiliate scrambled and threw on an old syndie copy of a Diana Rigg episode of "The Avengers" from their library. I woke up on my eleventh birthday some weeks later to headlines that the Son of Sam had been apprehended.

Three Mile Island and Mount Saint Helens were also big news events during my junior high school years, but the seminal news event for me between 1979-81 is a tossup between the 444 day Iranian Hostage Crisis and the failed assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

By the time of the Challenger disaster, I'm a college student and a much more engaged adult.

prydonianrenegade

Huh, the memory does indeed cheat.

When OP noted that they were in second grade when the OJ verdict came down... I can quite clearly remember where I was when the verdict was announced: in a science class at Tidewater Community College, listening to the verdict being read on headphones. My dropping my pen was enough to prompt the professor to ask what the verdict was... but in my head, I was certain that was a class took over the summer in 1995, so that I could make sure I got my Associates in 2 years, and not during the Fall semester in October.

For me, the first major news story that I can remember being consciously aware of was the coverage of the unsuccessful attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.

#very interesting #for me it was the death of osama bin laden in 2011 #i distinctly remember the news showing a nightvision camera shot of the building he was holed up in #i was also 7 years old.. it seems like thats the average age when you become aware of politics

the hermit

He eat a nemon

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

#posts that make you turn to your cat and ask if he thinks himself to be senator claudius