A Prescient Peanuts Prognostication

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Charles Schulz died on February 12, 2000. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was ten years old, and acceptable behavior for women was still defined by a culture which generally viewed them as inferior to men. If women didn't like that situation, they were free to complain, but they were undeniably expected to play ball politely in a game with rules rooted in male chauvinism.

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In a series of comic strips inked in 1973, Schulz foreshadowed the day when women like AOC would reject culturally assigned second-class citizenship and respond to belittling attacks by chauvinistic men not with polite acquiescence, but with strength and conviction.

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