There used to be a lot of spanking in cartoons. I remember a Little Lulu cartoon, where she was writing in her diary about getting spanking. The impression was that she was doing something to earn a spanking every day. One morning she wrote in her diary, "Dear diary, today I resolve to be a very good girl." Despite her best intentions, the cartoon ended showing Little Lulu later that day, over her Dad's knee, getting a spanking. I remember another one about a rabbit. He had got into some difficulty with another animal (I don't remember what kind, but it was a species that ate rabbits.) His Mom came to his rescue, but when he was no longer in danger, she pulled down the rabbit fur that covered his bottom, turned him over her knee, and was spanking him as the cartoon ended. Of course it wasn't politically incorrect to show spanking in children's cartoons then. Probably some folks thought that watching them would encourage their children to behave better. |