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...Oz 28, the School Kids issue, with its notorious comic strip of a priapic Rupert Bear and full page photo of a miniskirted schoolgirl captioned "jail bait of the month" ?

"The case of Schoolkids Oz", a well informed and thoughtful historical essay by David Buckingham, has certainly helped me think about this particular moment in British history. I agree with the author that the legacy of the Oz trial and the British counterculture more generally is mixed; we can look back and see both appalling sexism and a laudable sexual emancipation, protoneoliberalism and a cooperatavism that deserves re-examination and perhaps celebration or even revival.

We might also pause to consider the progressivism of today. As we look back with distaste at the promotion of "jailbait of the month", can we be confident that some of the campaigns and rhetoric of progressives today will not prompt a similar recoil in future decades?

#RichardNeville #Oz #OzSchoolKidsIssue
#Progressivism #Counterculture

https://davidbuckingham.net/growing-up-modern/children-of-the-revolution-the-hippy-counter-culture-the-idea-of-childhood-and-the-case-of-schoolkids-oz/the-case-of-schoolkids-oz/