When I was a child during the Satanic Panic, there was a book that told us why all the toys were Satanic. Does anyone have any idea how to get a copy? All I know is I wasn't allowed My Little Pony because of their alleged role in the drug trade. I really want to read it again.
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Opened my eyes and those of my friends. MAGA forced them closed again for so many.
@thedollop.bsky.social has an entire episode on it that I truly recommend.
We still proudly wore those t shirts during non/uniform school days. Which we earned by selling X number of magazine subscriptions door to door for them. Wild times.
Phil Phillips
It is on Amazon.
https://www.skeptophilia.com/2021/06/my-little-satan.html
https://lorehaven.com/podcast/43-how-did-a-1980s-evangelical-book-warn-about-turmoil-in-the-toy-box/
https://gizmodo.com/12-strange-and-disturbing-facts-about-the-original-my-1655543068
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/472-satanic-panic
https://urbigenous.net/library/zappa.html
I'd love to know if this is happening.
Stranger Things has a season about it. The one with Eddie Munson
Then, we'd just use a finger to run the record backward.
And (of course) ... that was how Satan got us. 🙄
Spoiler: Not a hidden message.
For an exciting visual of this process, look to almost any live DJ performance from before 2005.
*sigh*
Neither could. She eventually accepted it, and he eventually died of old age and assholeishness.
When a reporter asked him why, the preacher media-baited him with “We Christians don’t get as much MEDIA COVERAGE as your WWE WRESTLERS!”
Uh-haahh…. 🙄
Have been some goods videos on the subject on the youtubes.
https://youtu.be/y-cVetayY_g?si=byBlT2Ubw83XfUXf
His parents made him give them back.
My mom explained it to me, but that was the first I heard of the Satanic Panic.
I'll never forget that period of religious hysteria and how many went along without thinking.
People don't realise it was so much more than DnD.
I'm currently reading "Dangerous Games" by @josephlaycock.bsky.social which gets into the RPG elements of the Satanic Panic if you want to dig into that too. Lots of interesting history.
Check out the starter packs in my profile for more ExVs, and for people doing academic religious studies in general.
If you wanted to write a book about the toy panic, I'd read the hell out of that
Eg. UN as a Stalinist plot was literally in Christian school lesson plans.
I was raised Presbyterian. I was well into adulthood when I realized that stories like these weren't made up.
Evangelical churches are f**king lawless 🤣
@bjornih.bsky.social was looking into the global spread of these ideas
https://youtu.be/iW6UoIjy5F4?si=Z05B_whHFsH0wr_T
Social services, Humanities, surfers, working mothers with short hair, facts - Satanic (wait until you hear about the Professor problem!)
Signed bibles, golden sneakers, testosterone (esp. in cage fighting), MBAs, space rockets, lambos, Grok - Messianic
Care Bears were Satanic because rainbows were a symbol of the New World Order
Smurfs: Papa Smurf used magic
Inspector Gadget: Penny always disobeyed & got rewarded for it; Dr Claw was demonic
The Littles: it normalized trusting voices in the walls
He-Man/She-Ra: magic use
furthermore, if told, most would assume its a conspracy theory or some marginal oddity that lasted thirty seconds in some backwater
very few outsiders have any understanding how batshit crazy religion is in the US
But I was so mad at the time I tore them to shreds
I knew some really nice ministers in the late 80s and 90s. Most of them didn't see eye 2 eye with e.g. Moral Majority, Charismatics & Chick. But I knew some people stuck under those things.
I guess it got worse after I left in '06..
My father got up and quote lyrics
From country music songs
“ if Rock music is satanic , so is country music “
My parents would scan all books to make sure witches were evil before letting me read them. No good witches!
'The devil already has his way. He doesn't have to do anything to make you all scared.'
'Why aren't you praying?'
'Because the devil is just chilling.'
This rubbish still goes on between mothers. Just doesn't have a fantasy role play flavour anymore
All I know is that playing D&D early in life can lead to cross dressing as an adult and resorting to having “Bosom Buddies” to pay the rent.
Stay wicked! 🤘
I remember watching it and hoping I would see a claymation fight scene. Once I figured out what it was I still couldn’t turn it off. I think I was holding out for a dream sequence. It got the big Roger Ebert 👎 👎
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145986285860?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=w8QCvdRUSDG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=tNnnYh0yQMK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
my kids in daycare. Like…what if.
(I’m now an atheist, thankfully)