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something important I forgot to mention is that the blonde-haired blue-eyed "all-American girl" archetype in media always seems to be most prevalent at times when the U.S. is at its most conservative - in the post-war segregationist 1950s, the Reagan-era 80s, and the post-9/11 early 00s. and here we are again, in the Trump-Biden era where the U.S. is financing a racist genocide of Palestinians
It's fascinating to see it come from random internet sources instead of like, popular mainstream movies or some shit. Changing media landscape. I feel like this could also be tied to those "WHEN UR MEAN TO THE IDF THIS IS WHO UR MEAN TO" tiktoks that feature the most straight western beauty standards-matching women ever.
yeah there's also been a huge increase in weird fetishism of Ukrainian women in response to the Russian invasion. sick behavior
"These women will DIE FOR RHODESIA" type beat!
I've been horny enough to let better judgment slip but I've never been horny enough to mail some PO box I read in the back of soldier of fortune magazine.
I actually bought some old issues of those magazines recently and I've found some interesting stuff - it's documentation of all sorts of terrible mercenary exploits and special forces exploits, spoken of with pride and great detail.
On further research I found that the magazine has actually been prosecuted before for leaking classified details around mercenary advertisements.
I guess those WarThunder nerds leaking shit to win forum arguments has precedence, I'll be damned
Hmm, but is there a period between each of those times when they weren't funding a genocide here or taking a police action there or a full scale invasion elsewhere that you can identify different cultural beauty standards? It's kind of hard to separate.
you're right, it's not that the USA ever stopped being fascist but I think those time periods are when the general public was at its most reactionary and jingoistic and when these attitudes were reflected in mass media