Comments on: What I had for breakfast https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Interrobang https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518228 Fri, 07 May 2010 12:13:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518228 The clearest example of anti-gay messages in vintage television I can think of is (weirdly) in a GM commercial for the Renault Dauphine (available at archive.org here), where it’s strongly implied that anyone who’d rather drive a small, very maneuverable imported car that gets excellent gas mileage (even by today’s standards) is a big big pantywaist sissy who really shouldn’t be taken seriously.

(The reasons why GM would make such a subversive “anti-ad” for its own product are complicated and somewhat tangential to the current discussion.)

]]> By: Terry Hoffmann https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518227 Fri, 07 May 2010 09:17:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518227 Very interesting point about total nonexistence of gays represented on TV in that era. My first recollection must have been in the mid to late 70’s (would have been one of those dinner hour sitcoms or light dramas) where the male character comes out announcing “I’m gay!” I remember turning to my mother and older brother and saying, “what’s gay?” I would have been in late elementary or early jr. high school at that time. Funny

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518226 Thu, 06 May 2010 22:52:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518226 Horticulture counts.

]]> By: Lynn Wilhelm https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518225 Thu, 06 May 2010 21:25:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/06/what-i-had-for-breakfast/#comment-518225 Does Horticulture count?
I call it a Growing Science.

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