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I said that. That it could be different in cities, and the comment chain is about that difference.

Edit: really, go back to the comment that started this chain. It leads off by saying that rural people at that age had a very different lived experience.

I'm saying I had the opportunity to talk to people that either were adults then, or were raised by people that came of age then, and that lived experience outside of cities is a different context from the cartoon's.

Dude, I grew up on the edge of a town that was essentially built by farmers well before this cartoon. I lived in a city as a young man and worked in one off and on after that. The difference today in how kids learn skills between city and country is almost as big as what used to be there. School programs equalize things some, but a farm kid today is very likely to have had to kill a feral hog, or a coyote, or a fox that was causing problems. Likely well before 16. I personally know boys today that are driving farm trucks as soon as they can reach the pedals. Most of the kids at my high school could drive, shoot, help a cow give birth, whatever it took. I could, and I wasn't even a farm boy, I just had family that was.

And that was less than 40 years ago.

You don't have to trust a much older cartoon to guide your knowledge of the era. You can trust living human beings.