Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Perry White smoking a stogey?

It was a different time, a different lifestyle.  Poeple smoked, not because it was cool, but because it was expected, it was something to do.  Women were not treated as equals, but as cute little fashion objects to make the men feel like they have someone to protect. 

Going through all the old comics it's surprising how different of a world we live in.  It makes me wonder, did that world really exist?  Then I take a look around and realize, as much as we've changed, we've stayed exactly the same.  What changed is what is in print.  People don't write stories, or at least not as often about people getting super powers from smoking a stogie or about pulitzer prize winning journalist who are put on the "ask cupid" beat cause the other lady is out of town.

Ok, well perhaps I'm wrong, but the complexity of the stories has changed at least.  Long gone are the movies about a small produciton company trying to make the transition to a talkie while their main lead actress struggles with her obscenely annoying voice.  Now we have movies to look to like "The Matrix" where people can have debates for years about what it really means.  A movie that even tonight as I watch it again, I catch things I haven't caught all the times I've watched it within the last 10 years. 
I'm at least glad I live in a world where the secretary isn't always played by a woman while the rest of the real jobs are run by men.  I still see a lot of that kind of mentaility around still, but not as much.  Take a look at comics over the last 70 years and life just seems a bit more complicated than it once was.  Then again, comics used to be for kids right?