![]() “I’m going to ask the teacher if I could be Mary in the Christmas play this year…I think I’ll be great in the part…She asked me yesterday…I like the part where the angel of Gabriel talks to me… I could probably wear these same sandals. In fact in the special It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown, she is eager to play the part of Mary, using her footwear as a selling point, saying, In fact only when she’s skating do we ever see her set the sandals aside. She had the audacity to wear shorts and sandals to school, even in the middle of winter which considering the fact that she lives in Minnesota is a brave feat indeed. This was the case for Lucy and Sally who would go from wearing their classic puffy dresses in the 50’s to wearing shirts and pants by the time the strip ended. As was the case in the real world, girls weren’t even allowed to wear pants to school well until the late 1960s early 70s and were otherwise expected to wear dresses. With the girls however it was a different story. This isn’t a very noticeable thing with the boys like Charlie and Linus as they stayed consistent throughout the series run, with the only difference being since it is implied that they live in Minnesota, they wear shorts in the summer and long pants in the fall and winter. ![]() Patty also as cued many of the fashion trends that accompanied the children who proceeded her. And Schultz’s most obvious gender reversal occurs when Peppermint Patty’s best friend Marcie, who is the smartest and best student of the group, calls Patty “Sir” every time she addresses her.” But whenever Chuck gets too emotional, she blasts him with a barrage of insults. ![]() She allows Charlie Brown to play sports only because she seems to have a bit of a crush on him. “ The other girl who holds much power in Schultz’s cartoon world is Peppermint Patty, the “Peanuts” jock. Schulz, the Feminist” for The Baltimore Chronicle, Peppermint Patty was more able to address the society’s changing views on girls than any other character, as she first debuted in the strip in 1966, right at the height of the women’s liberation movement. This made room for other more unique characters, such as Peppermint Patty. Schulz found early on that some characters just weren’t that interesting, and would slowly let them fade away as was the case with Violet, Patty, and Freida, three of the girls in Charlie Brown’s neighborhood. One way they did this was with their characters.
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