Those wide leg pants, tho - very mid-90’s. Needs a tank top, a tousled hairdo with frosted tips and sideburns, and to carry a skateboard, and he’d be ready to say “Hello there fellow kids!”
It's possible that in the 1930's that the original artist had a grandmother from the old country who would fly into a rage if something reminded her of the Cossacks!
Oh my God, I’d completely forgotten about Barney Frank and his moobs. How I forgot, I don’t know, but I’m going to be haunted now for at least the rest of the day, if not the week.
Sydney Sweeney movie is The Housemaid, not The Handmaid, isn’t it?
My guess is that the “racial stereotype” guy is maybe Dutch. It’s the shoes.
I agree, the shoes look like those wooden clogs that always appear in Holland-related stereotypes. All he needs is a tulip. I think the wide pants are another.
It’s a window onto the days when “races” included ethnicities we’d just think of as “white European” today, at least in the US.
There used to be this whole concept in the US of “white ethnic,” which was basically any white people who weren’t of British or German descent. Kennedy was thought of as the first “white ethnic” president because his ancestry was Irish and he was Catholic. Up through the ‘70s, urban politicians would actively solicit the vote of the various white ethnic populations and think in terms of who was likely to win “the Italian vote” or “the Polish vote” or what-have-you.
I kinda want to hit the X to doubt button on the au pair bra thing because it sounds awfully familiar to an outcome changed version of a Curb Your Enthusiasm bit. Larry David had a maid who did not wear a bra and this bothered him so with his superhuman ability to guess a woman's bra size he went out and bought her a bra.
The au pair bra thing, like the proliferation of the name Kevin in France (mentioned by CR in a note), is another sad example of American culture displacing local customs.
When I met my wife, she didn't own any bras. Hadn't for years, and didn't for years, until she became a high school teacher in the US. Sometime after that, we were having drinks with her cousins (German women, then early 30s) and they just couldn't believe that American women were expected to wear bras all the time.
If it's any consolation, seems like the French and Germans agree with you!
"Kevinismus has become German short-hand for negative social preconceptions about trendy or exotic names.The name has had similar negative connotations in France." [Wikipedia]
The unclear racial stereotype really drives home how silly a lot of our racial discourse is going to look in 100 years when nobody identifies as any of the races that are being discussed today.
I think mysterious stereotype guy is Dutch because he has the pointy wooden shoes. We really used to pay a lot of attention to which little European country you or your family hailed from… and not in a celebratory, multi-cultural way.
I had to have an uncomfortable (for me) bra conversation with a female employee when I managed a cafe back in the 90s. "Mary, the Employee Handbook says I can't tell you to wear a bra. But I can discuss with you the customer complaints we are getting because they say they can see your nipple rings through your shirt..."
Waiting to see the 'How to draw' cartoon guy feature in a fashion round-up too.
The fit is really going unnecessarily hard.
Those wide leg pants, tho - very mid-90’s. Needs a tank top, a tousled hairdo with frosted tips and sideburns, and to carry a skateboard, and he’d be ready to say “Hello there fellow kids!”
1. Her waist-length hair was "covering everything"? Is this like an Eve in the garden situation?
2. The racial stereotype looks like some flavor of Eastern European/Central Asian steppe person, like a Cossack or a Magyar
“Hi, I’m your new au pair, Godiva.”
You win the thread.
❤️ aww thanks!
Yeah shouldn’t she say “my _shirt_ was covering everything”? There are a lot of details missing here.
It's possible that in the 1930's that the original artist had a grandmother from the old country who would fly into a rage if something reminded her of the Cossacks!
We needed a Trump tweet on the Kelce home renovation.
Oh my God, I’d completely forgotten about Barney Frank and his moobs. How I forgot, I don’t know, but I’m going to be haunted now for at least the rest of the day, if not the week.
Sydney Sweeney movie is The Housemaid, not The Handmaid, isn’t it?
My guess is that the “racial stereotype” guy is maybe Dutch. It’s the shoes.
I agree, the shoes look like those wooden clogs that always appear in Holland-related stereotypes. All he needs is a tulip. I think the wide pants are another.
It’s a window onto the days when “races” included ethnicities we’d just think of as “white European” today, at least in the US.
There used to be this whole concept in the US of “white ethnic,” which was basically any white people who weren’t of British or German descent. Kennedy was thought of as the first “white ethnic” president because his ancestry was Irish and he was Catholic. Up through the ‘70s, urban politicians would actively solicit the vote of the various white ethnic populations and think in terms of who was likely to win “the Italian vote” or “the Polish vote” or what-have-you.
so is the pipe
Highlights: 1. the Leonardo pic. 2. “apologies if this happens to be extremely offensive, but I don’t know who I’m offending”.
Also by all accounts Jim Morrison was a raging asshole, so his career shift totally tracks.
Yeah the only thing that made think twice about Limbaugh is that they both apparently had *enormous* heads 😂
We need further investigation into the Jameela bee situation because I'm fascinated
The non-binary one looks like a character from Dune at first glance
The Fremen are men freed from gender.
I kinda want to hit the X to doubt button on the au pair bra thing because it sounds awfully familiar to an outcome changed version of a Curb Your Enthusiasm bit. Larry David had a maid who did not wear a bra and this bothered him so with his superhuman ability to guess a woman's bra size he went out and bought her a bra.
The au pair bra thing, like the proliferation of the name Kevin in France (mentioned by CR in a note), is another sad example of American culture displacing local customs.
When I met my wife, she didn't own any bras. Hadn't for years, and didn't for years, until she became a high school teacher in the US. Sometime after that, we were having drinks with her cousins (German women, then early 30s) and they just couldn't believe that American women were expected to wear bras all the time.
If it's any consolation, seems like the French and Germans agree with you!
"Kevinismus has become German short-hand for negative social preconceptions about trendy or exotic names.The name has had similar negative connotations in France." [Wikipedia]
“Two lesbeins?” Did Facts of Lofe guy really mean to type “Two Lesbeens” and thus terrify Jameela Jamil?
Old dude is from Holland.
The unclear racial stereotype really drives home how silly a lot of our racial discourse is going to look in 100 years when nobody identifies as any of the races that are being discussed today.
I think mysterious stereotype guy is Dutch because he has the pointy wooden shoes. We really used to pay a lot of attention to which little European country you or your family hailed from… and not in a celebratory, multi-cultural way.
Based on the clogs, my guess is that the caricature is supposed to be of a Dutchman.
I had to have an uncomfortable (for me) bra conversation with a female employee when I managed a cafe back in the 90s. "Mary, the Employee Handbook says I can't tell you to wear a bra. But I can discuss with you the customer complaints we are getting because they say they can see your nipple rings through your shirt..."
If anyone needs more Donna Kelce content (and let's be honest, who doesn't??), she was on season 4 of the Traitors.