Today I Learned @lemmy.world Captain Poofter @lemmy.world 5 mo. ago

TIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clothes

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Sadie Hawkins Days/Dances were a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day

Another time comic strip lingo entered the mainstream. The US Army repeatedly claimed that jeeps were so named because they were 'General Purpose' vehicles. The troops all knew the real reason was that they were named for Popeye's teleporting pet, Eugene the Jeep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_the_Jeep
- They still do Sadie Hawkins, too! At least they did in 2007.... I'm old now, nvm lol.
  
  That's actually why this strip stuck out to me, it reminded me of an archaic Sadie Hawkins where the gal doesn't just ask the guy she.... forcefully sews a clothing patch on him?? Lmao
  
  A quick search failed to find any actual 'patch dances.' I think it's more likely that the Archie writers were afraid of copywrite problems and came up with their own variation.
  
  otoh, maybe I could have looked harder
Archie's been a teenager for 83 years now. Sounds like hell to me.
- But...Betty!
  
  She's too good for him.
Yeah you really don't have to look that far back in history for tinder to seem less weird.
Reggie immediately chooses violence and Betty is so ready to conspire.
- The old comics are wild. The male friends stripped Archie naked and forced him to swim in a lake with them in a comic once.
  
  Many forms of abuse that we know today (and the harm they cause) came to be recognized relatively recently.
  
  It makes me wonder what behaviors that are unremarkable now will be seen as horrible in future generations. I'm glad we're learning, at least.
Watched a NPR interview with Rick Astley. Said he modeled his look after Archie on account he slayed with the ladies.
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Cute idea until someone gets hooked

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