... exposed to commercials for these toys. Explosions and the staccato song of gunfire shatter the silence of a Saturday morning when a G.I. Joe commercial rages from the airwaves. Manly men with assault rifles drive vehicles with strangely phallic armaments across barren wastelands to defend America and Grandma and apple pie from the likes of Cobra and Destro. Even today, after the Cold War ... ...

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