Vintage ‘Totally Minnie’ sheets and bedspreads (1986)
I had that last sheet set when I was a kid!
Man, it’s wild how aggressively gendered everything was in the 80’s, especially from a modern standpoint. As a girl growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, you always got messages that “this is how you Girl.” Seeing it here out of context is really fascinating.
Toy makers and show runners had already clued in to the fact that their sales could increase if they marketed toys to boys and girls separately, rather than trying to create toys and shows that both enjoyed…but it seems that in the 80’s this intensified, and led to severe and rigid interpretations of gender role, almost like drag – a HEIGHTENED vision of gender, exaggerated to the extreme, and we still see that when we walk down the toy aisle today – here’s a cool article about it.
I remember being teased at school because I adored Totally Minnie and My Little Pony but I ALSO adored He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and that was “boy stuff.”
There was this running gag at school where you’d ask someone to look at their nails – if they made a fist and turned it over, they were a “boy.” If they splayed out their fingers and looked at the back of their hand, they were a “girl.” Doing the “wrong” thing got you teased for days. In hindsight, it’s funny how clued in to gender we all were, and how we voluntarily policed it in each other. (Well, some of us.) But given the way these messages were coded into everything that was DESIGNED for us, it’s not really that surprising.
Anyway, I still unapologetically stan Totally Minnie, she makes me smile. And there’s nothing wrong with being hella femme. Or hella 80’s. (Like, totally.)
But also WOW hindsight. lol. It’s amazing the things you learn about a culture by examining what they give to their children.
Anyway, wasn’t expecting to do a deep dive into Totally Minnie today XD Man, I wanna watch it now. “Don’t go breakin’ mah heaaaaart…”
concept: instead of hedwig, Harry goes into the pet store and this little snake in the back of the store talks to him, obviously gets his attention more than the other animals, and harry feels sorry for it so he takes it home. Then the snake helps Harry throughout his years at hogwarts as harry carries it wrapped around his hand all like “pssssst, haaarryyy, the dark lord isss coming sss” or just petty shit like “haaaarrryy, now is the time, assskkk out cho chaaannngg”
The snake getting really agitated in second year and Harry like ‘Aw, what’s wrong little friend?’
And snake’s like ‘Nah don’t worry it’s cool, it’s just that big fuck-off snake in the pipes that keeps making you think you’re hearing things—it’s like, ten thousand foot long, and I’m a corn snake, so you know. Bit intimidating.’
Third year he eats Scabbers and saves them all a lot of time
listen i kno we all have a giggle at people from ye olden times for believing in the four humors and bloodletting and shit like that but there are adults in this year of our lord 2018 who deadass believe there are Toxins in their body that can be released by drinking juice
the pure unrestrained giddy joy i feel every time i realize i’m COLD and it’s because the TEMPERATURE is DROPPING and i can PUT on a SWEATER because IT’S AUTUMN BABEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE FUCKEN SUMMER
Firebird Scratches 