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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 88 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Actually, this was a staged propaganda poster depicting the indignities that would befall men if women were given the vote

[–] mech@feddit.org 39 points 2 days ago

The indignity of being treated the same way men have always treated women.

[–] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

befall men if women were given the vote

Now the question is, how do I vote twice..

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

20 years after women earned the right to vote in Texas...?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That explains why they gave women the vote

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, they're all hot, and they all look happy. Well, that one guy looks maybe a bit pensive.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago

Im still suffering; this isn’t available here 😩

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

don't threaten me with a good time

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 8 points 2 days ago

They look pretty happy with it really.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Now that makes sense - unless it was Chippendale, Texas.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah, I wish I was hot enough to be objectified as a male.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's fun, but women objectifying you is the exception.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've been objectified by women. Usually 30+ years older than me. Granted, it's been a while. Creepy old people isn't a male-exclusive club.

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can confirm; I was indecently assaulted by a woman around 30 years older than me when I freshly turned 18. Took me a while to deal with the cognitive dissonance between wanting to be wanted and wanting bodily autonomy. While most of them are men, gross people are always gonna be gross.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yup. At that age I knew it was a gross thing. But also at that age, I was horny. And why would I jump on a 60 year old when I was pulling people my age?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You haven't been objectified by way more men than women? I just inferred that men are creepier from personal experience.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh for sure, with the few times it's happened to me, I never felt threatened. Just grossed out.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Ah yes… BOOTERS.

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

No mention of the small table that seems to be attached to the car window

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s a serving tray that hooks on to the window. The other guy is carrying one that he will bring to a different car window.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Yup we used to get those at Stuarts!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's a lot I don't understand about that picture. I'm so old I remember window trays at the drive-in in the 1960s, and they attached differently, with the window fully open and the bumpers against the door. With the one in the picture I don't see how you're supposed to get your drink past the opening without spilling it. Even the cherries on the banana split would scrape off. Also, it looks like they have the hood up? Which makes the rest of the scene hard to see but the girl with the balloon animal and the car behind her are from at least 20 years later than the orange car. So maybe it's vintage and they're being careful about the orange paint.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

It's a display for a car show.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not as old as you, but I remember window trays at Dog n Suds (and our local, the Mug-n-Bun) in the 90s. They did actually clip on the window, and if you had your window fully open they had you roll it up an inch or two so it could attach. I assume that wasn't new technology at the time. They didn't look quite like this, though; they were cantilevered on rubber pads so that the top of the tray lined up with the top of the window. By then they had moved away from glass serving dishes to Styrofoam with lids, so it wasn't really a problem to get things into the car, height-wise.

I mean, this is almost certainly a staged display for a car show, but I'm just verifying that these trays (well, ones kind of like these) do exist and were (are?) used.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Wild guess here because I don't know anything about vintage cars or drive in trays or america in the 60s. But could it be that this tray is designed to sit on the inside of a car, on the passenger side, so that someone in the driver's seat can use it? This would be convenient in bad weather but totally useless if you do have an extra passenger with you.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How does that work?

Would people just park somewhere at the drive in and eat in their cars or would they just put everything inside the car and then give the tray back?

I doubt they drove home with the tray attached and the food on it?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Back in the day people in US would never leave their cars. They lived like hermit crabs, working, eating and sleeping in their cars. If they had children they would move to a bigger car. The cities were simply considered too dangerous to move around without the protective shell of a vehicle. Only after WWII they invented suburbs and started moving from their cars to homes. Today it's safer so they sometimes leave their cars and move around on foot but it's still not very common and seen as liberal invention.

[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Eat in the car

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People knew how to prioritize back then.

What good is it for your car to be aerodynamic if it slightly hinders the ease with which a man in what looks like leather shorts serving you?

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The table is a temporary addition that clips/clamps on. It probably belongs to the restaurant and would be removed before driving anywhere.

(In fact, actually ... look at the underside of the other guy's serving tray. It seems to have a folding mechanism on the bottom of it, and I think it's the same thing. Their serving trays are made to be clamped onto car windows to provide customers with a little table.)

Anyway, in modern times, we have nifty inventions called 'cup holders' in our cars, that allow us to hold beverage bottles conveniently in place without compromising aerodynamics.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But there's still a distinct lack of fully flat table-surfaces in most vehicles. Including our minivan although it could be a loss from the wheelchair conversion, along with the middle row of seats.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago

But there’s still a distinct lack of fully flat table-surfaces in most vehicles.

Strangely enough, tray tables are a common feature ... on extremely high-end luxury cars.

Which has always struck me as odd. Tables are useful for everyone, not just rich fuckers. And it's not like that would be an expensive or difficult feature to implement. Okay, skip the mahogany and brushed aluminum trim -- make it from cheap plastic. But I really don't see why more down-market cars -- especially family cars -- haven't implemented that feature. (Yes, I know there are actually a precious few out there that have. But why so few? Why is it such a rare feature for anyone spending less than $200k for their car?)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Seattle still has one. I've never done it though. I'm not sure if they still do the trays, but they do take it to your car (I think):

https://burgermaster.com/about-history/

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There are at least two drive-in restaurant chains near me (Sonic, which has lots of locations nationwide, and The Varsity, which claims to be "the world's largest drive-in"), but AFAIK neither does the car window tray thing. 😠

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

They ordered "boot cut" but got "booty cut" instead

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

looks like they do fisty-cuffs, minus the bushy mustache and sideburns

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Okay so, those short shorts were popular at different times for men, not now. But I know like in the 80s I think something like that they were popular, and probably before that, it might not be anything gay it's just the vagaries of fashion. Me? I don't like to wear any type of short that does not go down to at least the knee.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve got bad news for you; 7” and 5” inseams have been the fashion for men for a couple years now.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yay, are we getting back to Larry Bird/Magic Johnson basketball shorts?

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

It seems so.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 2 days ago

Excuse me, I just need to go get a burger and leave a big tip right quick.