u/Appropriate_Bed_6389

I am white. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry quite a bit, among other old cartoons from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, such as Looney Toons, and the old Paramount Cartoons. As for Tom and Jerry, I watched the largely sanitized versions on Cartoon Network that removed the caricatures, apart from the character "Mammy Two Shoes", the black woman who had to deal with their antics (or rarely aired shorts that featured her) or watched the original versions and was too young to recognize the stereotypes. But as I got older, I found the uncensored versions online and saw the original versions with all the stereotypes, such as blackface gags, and the original voice of the black woman, only known as "Mammy Two-Shoes". I was wondering, what do you guys think of these old cartoons now that they have aged horribly, and how would've your grandparents and great-grandparents feel if they were watching these cartoons, among other racist media of the time if they were in a theater in the 1930s or 1940s?

I remember watching an episode of the Simpsons from 1993, which was from its early years, when an elderly Aunt of Marge's dies, and leaves behind a video will, in which she tells Patty and Selma to find companionship, and not end up alone like she has, and this hit Selma hard, making her think she wanted children, so she tries a few attempts at dating which do not go well.

Selma then had an opportunity to take Bart and Lisa to an amusement park, where things go...horribly wrong, and in the end makes her realize she does not want kids, and that it's not for her, and ends up adopting her deceased Aunt's pet iguana.

This felt really ahead of its time, in the fact that they showed its okay to not have kids, and that not everyone is cut out for it, which is very rare for the early-mid 90s. Does anyone else remember this episode? It was called Selma's Choice and was a part of the fourth season.

How old is the building (or section of building your classroom is in) you teach in? What do you like or dislike about it based on its age? For people who have taught in multiple schools that were built in different time periods (Such as pre-WW2, post WW2, 70's,80's,90s, last twenty years, etc.), what were the pros and cons of school buildings based on their age?