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Do you mean the days when the woman had to wash, feed and groom the horse everyday and work in the fields picking cotton, while the husband went out and killed cattle all day and tended to the farm from 4 in the morning? The days when there were no food stores or Macys to go get clothing and you had to wait for the guy with the goods to come to town every six months , so you could buy the cloth to make your own dresses and buy your food from him and cook it and if something was missing (spices), you went without because the man wouldn't be back till next 6 months again. The days when you had to get your water from a well and the women were not allowed in bars unless you were a *****. There was no air conditioning and the only warmth you had in winter was from the fireplace your grandmother made, cus grandpa died a long time ago from a curable disease but nobody knew the cure then?
Nah, I'll pass. I would like to have a ranch someday, but with all the modern ammenities.
in the 50s and 60s, in some ways more so than now. I also lived the optimism and having something to look forward to instead of having something in the future to dread!
Well, 50s, can't vouch much for those, but 60s?? Like hiring a contractor to dig you a personal A-bomb shelter in your backyard with Mr Kruschev banging his shoe on the podium screaming "We'll bury you?" Cuban Crisis? Vietnam war?
Do you mean the days when the woman had to wash, feed and groom the horse everyday and work in the fields picking cotton, while the husband went out and killed cattle all day and tended to the farm from 4 in the morning? The days when there were no food stores or Macys to go get clothing and you had to wait for the guy with the goods to come to town every six months , so you could buy the cloth to make your own dresses and buy your food from him and cook it and if something was missing (spices), you went without because the man wouldn't be back till next 6 months again. The days when you had to get your water from a well and the women were not allowed in bars unless you were a *****. There was no air conditioning and the only warmth you had in winter was from the fireplace your grandmother made, cus grandpa died a long time ago from a curable disease but nobody knew the cure then?
Nah, I'll pass. I would like to have a ranch someday, but with all the modern ammenities.
and last but not least, colored kids - to the right, uncolored (white) - to the left. "Good monin, mista!" - "Hi, n****r!" Oh, come on...
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Well, 50s, can't vouch much for those, but 60s?? Like hiring a contractor to dig you a personal A-bomb shelter in your backyard with Mr Kruschev banging his shoe on the podium screaming "We'll bury you?" Cuban Crisis? Vietnam war?
True, true...it seems for every decade since then the media has been trying to tell us it's the end of the world. Watching the news you'd think you're living in some sort of violent hell. Suffering is present in lots of the world but sometimes I think we let it define things too much so we think it's so bad we throw our arms in the air and say 'screw it, it's too hard to change!'
Do you mean the days when the woman had to wash, feed and groom the horse everyday and work in the fields picking cotton, while the husband went out and killed cattle all day and tended to the farm from 4 in the morning? The days when there were no food stores or Macys to go get clothing and you had to wait for the guy with the goods to come to town every six months , so you could buy the cloth to make your own dresses and buy your food from him and cook it and if something was missing (spices), you went without because the man wouldn't be back till next 6 months again. The days when you had to get your water from a well and the women were not allowed in bars unless you were a *****. There was no air conditioning and the only warmth you had in winter was from the fireplace your grandmother made, cus grandpa died a long time ago from a curable disease but nobody knew the cure then?
Nah, I'll pass. I would like to have a ranch someday, but with all the modern ammenities.
LMAO You know I love toilet tissue.... it is so soft.. didnt they use leaves and out houses then......
Yikes, I forgot to subscribe to this thread. I'm still finding my way around this forum... How do you use the multiple quote thingy? Anyway, let me read the replies here, and then I'll be back.
Sadly I think Feminism only really benefited those in the Upper middle class bracket or higher
If you live in the Hampton's. Your husband is a high flying Executive on Wall street.
The wife owns and runs her own art gallery in Manhattan
She has plenty of hired help (Nannies,Housekeepers,Tutors) Then I think
Feminism was really good for you
It gave you plenty of life options
Sadly if you live in Detroit.The husband works 50 hours in a factory
The wife 40 hours in wall mart then she has to come home and do all the
housework. Then I think Feminism was not that great a benefit for you at all
I myself wish if I got married the wife could have a choice to be a SAHM
But sadly although I think I get paid well,I don't think this would be possible.
It takes a lot of money these days to keep up with the Jone's
New house,foreign car,designer labels,private schools,health insurance
We would both need to work long hours just to keep up
I agree that in some ways feminism made things worse for working class women, but what else is new? Working class folks usually get the shaft. It does suck that it's difficult for even professionals and skilled laborers to feed a family on one income these days. However, it's not just the greedy b*st*rds at the top of the pyramid scheme who made it this way. They played their part for sure, but the average house now is what ... 2000 square feet or more? The average house in the 40s was about 900-1100 square feet (you have TWO bathrooms! how nice!) Forget TWO cars; many folks didn't have one -- and then there is all the consumer goods. My family could live on my income if we were willing to go back to a 1940s way of life, but truthfully, I'm just not. I don't want to spend the rest of my life explaining why I don't have a cell phone. As ususal, the masses are somewhat culpable in thier own enslavement. Where it used to be their fear that kept them in check, now it's primarily their greed.
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Cuban Crisis? Vietnam war? 
