1. There's some forgotten social history here. Kids drank a lot in the 1970s and 1980s but then there was a push back. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) created in 1980, Drug Abuse & Resistance Education (DARE) in 1983. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1047569138472968192 …
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This is the basic worldview of the "slobs vs. snobs" comedies that were hugely successful in the late 70's and early 80's.
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The early '80s we're also the post "Animal House" period in the frat community.
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O'Rourke was part of National Lampoon.
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And then some of us matured.
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As a kid I made fun of Tipper’s labels. As an adult with a kid, I get it.
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I demand a minimum 10 part thread on Steve Dallas in “Bloom County”!
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And this comes out of National Lampoon, and specifically Animal House, which had a huge cultural effect on young men. with ties to SNL and Belushi etc. These are Kavanaughs cultural touchstones
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In fact the through line (in the article you are going to write about this Jeet) for masculine reaction against feminisn in the 60s then goes into buddy movies (48 hours) and macho fests like Rambo that are all misogynistic and then into Wall Street’s anti hero money maker badass
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They all wanted to be Eric Stratton while deep down they knew they were Greg Marmalard. That continues to be their problem and no amount of beer is going to fix it.
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Oddly, the movie PCU kinda gets that take. But the members of The Pit are more like the frat boys I went to college with as opposed to the David Spade frat boy character.
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