TIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clothes - eviltoast
    • Captain Poofter@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      The old comics are wild. The male friends stripped Archie naked and forced him to swim in a lake with them in a comic once.

      • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 months ago

        Many forms of abuse that we know today (and the harm they cause) came to be recognized relatively recently.

        It makes me wonder what behaviors that are unremarkable now will be seen as horrible in future generations. I’m glad we’re learning, at least.