Tchem@#210 - I would say the same thing about Mary Lou Retton. I'm fairly sure I knew she was famous; whether I knew what an Olympics was is an open question.
Mimi@#100 and a few others - I have contradictory memories of Challenger too, in my case of my teacher not letting us watch the launch live and of seeing it at school. My guess is that the footage aired so often that young brains, a little sketchy on sequences of events in general, made a muddle of it.
I was born in '78, and the first thing I remember is the '84 election because my mom and I had a conversation about Geraldine Ferrarro and the possibility of the first woman president. If that doesn't count, I have to say Challenger, a year and a half later.
People getting their knickers (or nursing bras) in a twist are ignoring that this applies only to DEFAULT icons -- the icons that show up if you don't select otherwise. Even free users can have and use five other icons, which can show as much nipple as they want.
Honestly, I think it's LJ's right to say whatever they want about default icons, and I understand why they don't want to get into case-by-case debates over icons. Making a rule (no nipple, period) and sticking to it is easier. I think it's slightly pointless, given the five-other-icons factor, but I'm having a hard time seeing this as a big deal or a blow in the mommywars.
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