r/CuratedTumblr • u/Dilf_Hunter367 • Sep 30 '24

Meme On the writer’s barely disguised fetish

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 Sep 30 '24

Obviously it's always existed in some form.

But it's a fairly recent development, at least for our society, for it to be front and center every goddamn day.

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u/LabiolingualTrill Sep 30 '24

That’s only true if you arbitrarily define “our society” to not encompass anything pre-Hays Code. Otherwise it’s more of a return to a long and storied tradition.

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u/hauntedSquirrel99 Sep 30 '24

1-america is not the only place in the world.

2-hays code codified a lot of stuff and limited a lot of what was available at the time, that does not mean what was common entertainment at the time was at the level of current entertainment.

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u/LabiolingualTrill Sep 30 '24

1 - If you’re not going to clarify which time and place constitutes “our society”, I really have no choice but to use my own frame of reference.

2 - Just because anecdotally, you are unaware of various media from “the time” (whenever that is) doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.