Saucy postcard / Joke type

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otolith said:

sherman said:

Wokeness and snowflakes will have killed that sort of thing off.

I don't think it's that - the bits that might offend modern sensibilities about gender stereotypes and objectification weren't the point of them because nobody questioned that in the past, though I think that's possibly part of their appeal now. I think it's that they aren't transgressive any more in the sense that they used to be, we have much less censorship, grot is but a click away and the fun was the "naughtiness". They seem quaint.

I think "things in general" are more explicit now. I used to have real trouble buying birthday cards for my parents, just because the high street ones were either too shmaltzy flowers-and-hearts or funny ones that were just too rude to give them - there didn't seem to be any ones that people of their age would find funny. I expect the same would be the case for these postcards - the originals were all about being suggestive rather than explicit. I guess that's pretty much the same as otolith's last sentence.

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