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Golden Girls & Spock (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by FauxPseudo@lemmy.world to c/risa@startrek.website

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[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For anyone unaware, this joke references a conflation of the Spock we all know and love with Dr. Benjamin Spock, who wrote some of the most prominent books on child rearing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He had some decent political views, but his child-rearing advice wasn't always very evidence-based.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Truth be told I've never really read up on him, I only recognized the joke because they make a similar one in the movie Captain Fantastic lol

[–] thisismyhaendel@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I was (probably at some point willfully) unaware of this most of my childhood, and it was more fun to think about than the real thing. I miss the days when I could make up my own answers to references. :p