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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1185 on: May 10, 2013, 12:33:30 am »
HAWT! And yes gonna give some ol' fundies a heart attack (or damp panties).
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1186 on: May 10, 2013, 12:41:12 am »
Of course, knowing the history behind the photo the picture is based on gives it almost completely the opposite meaning.
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1187 on: May 10, 2013, 09:29:57 am »
To me that connotation is actually spot on, in a good way. The Victory in Europe Day celebratory kiss photo happened 68 years ago, but it is so iconic a symbol of success after great struggle that I like it's use in this cartoon. Sure, the posture and act were sexist by today's standard, but in the day, that was the Hollywood Movie Romance kiss, and the actual man and woman were strangers to each other just goofing it up out of excitement and happiness. Here's a re-enactment, with the two original kissers reunited, sharing a more subdued display of affection.

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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1188 on: May 10, 2013, 12:12:16 pm »
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1189 on: May 10, 2013, 12:24:14 pm »
Quote from: mellenORL on May 10, 2013, 09:29:57 am
To me that connotation is actually spot on, in a good way. The Victory in Europe Day celebratory kiss photo happened 68 years ago, but it is so iconic a symbol of success after great struggle that I like it's use in this cartoon. Sure, the posture and act were sexist by today's standard, but in the day, that was the Hollywood Movie Romance kiss, and the actual man and woman were strangers to each other just goofing it up out of excitement and happiness. Here's a re-enactment, with the two original kissers reunited, sharing a more subdued display of affection.



Funny, for some reason I had heard a story that she was being sexually harassed and didn't want to be kissed.
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1190 on: May 10, 2013, 12:55:52 pm »
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Quote from: mellenORL on May 10, 2013, 09:29:57 am
To me that connotation is actually spot on, in a good way. The Victory in Europe Day celebratory kiss photo happened 68 years ago, but it is so iconic a symbol of success after great struggle that I like it's use in this cartoon. Sure, the posture and act were sexist by today's standard, but in the day, that was the Hollywood Movie Romance kiss, and the actual man and woman were strangers to each other just goofing it up out of excitement and happiness. Here's a re-enactment, with the two original kissers reunited, sharing a more subdued display of affection.



Funny, for some reason I had heard a story that she was being sexually harassed and didn't want to be kissed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187071/Times-Square-Sailor-nurse-kissing-iconic-WWII-photograph-reunited.html

George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman claim to be the kisser and kissee in question, although the photographer never asked the names of the man and woman in his photograph. George says he was very drunk and has no memory of it. Greta says she was caught totally by surprise, and was held by "a very strong man" so you definitely have your talking point about harassment. I saw her in an interview broadcast some years ago about the incident, and in that TV program, IIRC, she said she was shocked but not especially outraged or frightened by the grab and kiss, describing it as a part of the crowd uproar and excitement that day (Victory in Japan Day, to correct my last post).
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1191 on: May 10, 2013, 01:24:40 pm »
Ahh, yeah. Not gonna say what it is or isn't but it's definitely iconic.

And yeah, V-J Day. V-E day was earlier.
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1192 on: May 10, 2013, 02:01:03 pm »
Since this is a really famous bit of history, and there are important, serious questions raised by the background story (such as it inadequately is), I kept researching, and came across the transcript of a Library of Congress history project interview with Greta Friedman;

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.42863/transcript?ID=sr0001
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1193 on: May 10, 2013, 08:40:17 pm »
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1194 on: May 11, 2013, 01:10:07 pm »
Exactly the point I want to make.
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1195 on: May 11, 2013, 03:43:23 pm »
I'm not sure what this was for, but it made me laugh:

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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1196 on: May 11, 2013, 04:36:58 pm »
Quote from: Eva-Beatrice on May 11, 2013, 03:43:23 pm
I'm not sure what this was for, but it made me laugh:


;D Made me chuckle.
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1197 on: May 11, 2013, 09:25:32 pm »
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1198 on: May 11, 2013, 09:43:46 pm »
Was that the counter-protest from the time Westboro decided to protest ComiCon?
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Re: Awesome Protest Signs
« Reply #1199 on: May 11, 2013, 11:28:24 pm »
Quote from: chad sexington on May 11, 2013, 09:43:46 pm
Was that the counter-protest from the time Westboro decided to protest ComiCon?

No, that was MUCH larger.
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