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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get that but clearly that experience/expectation wasn’t universal as evidenced by the cartoon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I said that. That it could be different in cities, and the comment chain is about that difference.

Edit: really, go back to the comment that started this chain. It leads off by saying that rural people at that age had a very different lived experience.

I'm saying I had the opportunity to talk to people that either were adults then, or were raised by people that came of age then, and that lived experience outside of cities is a different context from the cartoon's.

Dude, I grew up on the edge of a town that was essentially built by farmers well before this cartoon. I lived in a city as a young man and worked in one off and on after that. The difference today in how kids learn skills between city and country is almost as big as what used to be there. School programs equalize things some, but a farm kid today is very likely to have had to kill a feral hog, or a coyote, or a fox that was causing problems. Likely well before 16. I personally know boys today that are driving farm trucks as soon as they can reach the pedals. Most of the kids at my high school could drive, shoot, help a cow give birth, whatever it took. I could, and I wasn't even a farm boy, I just had family that was.

And that was less than 40 years ago.

You don't have to trust a much older cartoon to guide your knowledge of the era. You can trust living human beings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I didn’t say otherwise. I’m emphasizing that this is an experience/observation the cartoonist was communicating that must’ve been decently common. Going “well actually…” about it just undermines it when you spend 95% of the comment explaining how it was common for younger people to have more responsibility (such as guns) and 5% giving a token acknowledgment that the cartoonist maybe had a valid perspective but only with alllll the other caveats behind if. It weighs the viewpoints implicitly, the cartoonist’s perspective is basically being stripped down the whole comment.