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Esquire
cartoons of the 1950s....bless them! Unfettered by the
restraints of political correctness (which hadn't been
invented yet), certain cartoonists saw you as fair
game for mockery in the mid-20th Century if you were
poor, black (or rather, not white enough), from the
southern parts of the United States, a farmer, or
female (and apparently if you were female and
attractive, you were also some sort of crazed
sex-addict). But let's face it, if you weren't a
60-ish, overweight millionaire with a cigar, a snifter
of brandy, and a secretary on one knee and a mistress
on the other, you weren't quite in the vintage
Esquire demographic anyway. So rather than celebrate
the intolerance of the past, let's just view this page
in enlightened awe at how any of this could have
happened just fifty short years ago.
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