Comments on: Monday PSA: Popeye and Public Service Careers

By: Skyler

Skyler — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:16:22 +0000

I happen to come across 13 of the 15 Popeye Career comics while I was cleaning out boxes from storage. They came out three years after I graduated. While these day they would be labeled “sexist” they really were pretty right on for the time period. I found them to be interesting and certainly with their own slant on thing back in the day.

By: dr pepper

dr pepper — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:00:53 +0000

Sexist sure, but it tries for ethnic diversity: even aliens with pea soup colored skin can become policewomen.

By: Eric E

Eric E — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:26:21 +0000

To be fair, quite a few lawyers actually are public service workers.

Public defenders, legal aid at battered women’s shelters, and the like. Certainly, this is a minority of lawyers, probably because working at a private law firm pays dramatically better. But saying that all (rather than most) lawyers don’t count as doing public work is a bit of an oversimplification.

By: arkonbey

arkonbey — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:38:45 +0000

Aside from the sexism, what struck me is the hinting as to what exactly Runaway Ellen is doing on that street corner in the bad part of town.

The most sexist one for me is the nursing one. It sort of hints that nurses aren’t medical professional workers.

Makes me think of my uncle who became a nurse in the 70’s after being a Navy corpsman in VietNam. I can hardly imagine how hard that must have been for him.