[ SECRET POST #5006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5006 ⌋

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[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/NfOP61n.png

[(Anonymous)]

yes. Even little kids have their own taste and not everyone had the same experiences. Courtney seems to be funky/trendy, she's clearly not into the prissy/preppy look. But some little girls were, or weren't given a choice by their parents. Some people grew up in the middle of Hicksville Nowhere where it was a forty five minute drive to Kmart and other people grew up with access to a lot of department stores and/or bigger, more fashionable cities.

People showed photos of the 86 Sears catalog to claim that's what girls were really wearing. Uh, there's a reason late 20thC Sears was not known as a fashionable place to get clothes... Personally, when we could shop at a department store and I was allowed to pick out my own clothes, I wouldn't have been caught dead in the stuff seen in Sears.

Someone showed a photo of Rudy Huxtable, basically saying "this is what the doll should be dressed like". Forgetting that these two characters live in two very different worlds. One is a middle class Valley Girl, the other is the sheltered daughter of rich parents in Brooklyn.

[akacat]

Oh, yikes. Hicksville in the 80s was the worst. I remember my teenage cousins wearing what could have been plain but flattering dresses, with the most godawful lacey collars.

I wasn’t much more stylish, but those collars were the worst.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I hated getting my clothes from Sears. My mom bought all my school clothes there when I was a kid and they were always super fugly.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who was repeatedly hit over the head with "ruskies are gonna bomb us and Japs will steal our jobs, do your math homework!" I wish I could have missed the cold war.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah apparently she's 'too old' to like things like care bears?? Can they please get lives?!

[(Anonymous)]

I was 10 in 1980, so not the target market/example kid for this, but Care Bears were cute! I'm pretty sure I had a Care Bears folder or two when I was definitely "too old" for it. They were also popular stuffed animals to give to a friend for their birthday or something.

[(Anonymous)]

Look, every kid in the 80s over the age of, like, 5 knew about the Cold War. Not only was it frequently a topic in school, it featured heavily in just about every movie and cartoon aimed at kids over preschool age. Hell, there were multiple Scholastic paperbacks that had "American kid and Russian kid find out they have [random kid interest] in common and become friends even though their countries hate each other" as a plotline.

Although, to be fair, I don't think the Care Bears ever dealt with it. Demonic possession of lonely children, yes. Mutually Assured Destruction -- not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

If one is the themes of this doll is girls into STEM (as some people have said) the cold war was unavoidable if you read stuff about space.

[(Anonymous)]

Care Bears had demonic possession?

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYP_mcQ_aKs

[(Anonymous)]

That movie! I used to watch that all the time when I was little.

I also remember another one where the Care Bears interacted with these kids at a camp.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. In the 80s, a lot of people thought kids were summoning demons with their Dungeon Master's Guides and getting possessed by them, so a lot of kids shows dealt with demons and demon possession.

[tree_and_leaf]

Also an eighties kid (albeit from Scotland, not the US), completely agree with this.

We had to read "Z for Zachariah" and "Brother in the Land" at primary school (age 10 or 11), and the subject definitely came up before then. Heck, someone gave me, aged five or so, a picture book called "One Hundred Reasons Not To Have A Nuclear War. We didn't have duck and cover drills, though - I suspect our teachers would have viewed it as pointless...

Luckily, I was just too young to miss the trend for showing teenagers "Threads," which has to be one of the most traumatising TV dramas ever. (It's up on youTube, but I take no responsibilities for any nightmares).

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone from North America who believes an American kid in the 80s wouldn't know about the Cold War and the AIDS epidemic was either incredibly sheltered as a child, or doesn't actually remember the 80s. Both were incredibly pervasive in the media. A lot of schools still had duck and cover drills. AIDS PSAs were inescapable in schools and in doctor's offices.

A kid wouldn't really have a nuanced understanding of either topic (hell, most adults didn't and still don't have a particularly nuanced understanding of either topic), but they'd be broad-strokes aware.