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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?)
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. 😠
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.
44 Comments
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 95 pts · 81d
Actually, this was a staged propaganda poster depicting the indignities that would befall men if women were given the vote
mech@feddit.org · 49 pts · 80d
The indignity of being treated the same way men have always treated women.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 81d
Now the question is, how do I vote twice..
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
in texas the saying is: vote early, vote often
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 80d
That explains why they gave women the vote
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 80d
to end womens suffrage
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 80d
Im still suffering; this isn’t available here 😩
Dojan@pawb.social · 3 pts · 80d
Yeah, they're all hot, and they all look happy. Well, that one guy looks maybe a bit pensive.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 80d
don't threaten me with a good time
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 10 pts · 80d
They look pretty happy with it really.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 80d
Source?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 80d
Now that makes sense - unless it was Chippendale, Texas.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 80d
20 years after women earned the right to vote in Texas...?
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 80d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 80d
Fuck yeah, I wish I was hot enough to be objectified as a male.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 80d
It's fun, but women objectifying you is the exception.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 80d
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 · 20 pts · 80d
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 pts · 80d
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 pts · 80d
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 pts · 80d
Oh for sure, with the few times it's happened to me, I never felt threatened. Just grossed out.
nao@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 81d
No mention of the small table that seems to be attached to the car window
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 81d
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 · 12 pts · 81d
Yup we used to get those at Stuarts!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 81d
It's a drive-in tray:
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 80d
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 pts · 80d
It's a display for a car show.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 80d
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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 80d
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.
Brummbaer@pawb.social · 2 pts · 80d
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 · 16 pts · 80d
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 pts · 80d
Eat in the car
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 81d
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 pts · 81d
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 pts · 80d
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 pts · 80d
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 pts · 81d
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/
rainwall@piefed.social · 1 pts · 80d
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
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. 😠
JDPoZ@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 80d
Ah yes… BOOTERS.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 80d
They ordered "boot cut" but got "booty cut" instead
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 81d
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 · 7 pts · 81d
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 80d
Oh yay, are we getting back to Larry Bird/Magic Johnson basketball shorts?
fuzzzerd@programming.dev · 1 pts · 80d
It seems so.
sundray@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 80d
Excuse me, I just need to go get a burger and leave a big tip right quick.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 80d
looks like they do fisty-cuffs, minus the bushy mustache and sideburns