{"id":27833,"date":"2025-09-25T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:58:01","slug":"spanky-and-his-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27833","title":{"rendered":"Spanky and his gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the shenanigans of the current U.S. administration feels for all the world like watching a pack of five year olds acting out. Which may be why something about it has been nagging at my brain.<\/p>\n<p>I think I finally have it. These people remind me of the &#8220;He-Man Woman Haters Club&#8221; from the <i>Spanky and Our Gang<\/i> movie shorts in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>All the stories in those films were essentially about a gang of little boys trying to punch way above their weight. And like our current president, those little boys had a definite problem with equality between the sexes.<\/p>\n<p>Spanky&#8217;s club even had an anthem: &#8220;We Are He-Man Woman Haters&#8230; We Feed Girls To Alligators&#8221;. That also might help to explain why the president decided to call his fancy new concentration camp &#8220;Alligator Alley&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the shenanigans of the current U.S. administration feels for all the world like watching a pack of five year olds acting out. Which may be why something about it has been nagging at my brain. I think I finally have it. These people remind me of the &#8220;He-Man Woman Haters Club&#8221; from the Spanky &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spanky and his gang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27834,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions\/27834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}