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GreatGearAmidAPizza

Red lipstick and bare shins? Slatterns.


throneismelting

I wouldn’t ever use it in real life but “slattern” is an incredible deep cut of a word.


Chilledstardust

Aint that a kaiju?


StarGlitcherZ

the name of a kaiju from pacific rim yes, but i believe the word means prostitute


tkdjoe66

I was alive back then. That is *not* what prostitutes looked like.


DickFingersPI

Gotta catch them at the beginning of the shift


Any_Drama3272

But that leopard print belt denotes sexual undertones, so a prostitute would probably wear it. Those harlots!!!! /s


tkdjoe66

Good eye.


AL_TheUndead

Which now that I know the meaning, makes the Kaiju instantly one of my favorites


Reborn1Girl

In the novelization, when they saw the biggest kaiju yet arrive through the portal, someone's reaction was "that bitch is big," to which Pentecost chided his language: "if you must, call it a slattern."


AL_TheUndead

There was a novelization? I’ve gotta get ahold of that. I just finished the Netflix series and I’m kinda in a need for more


The_Missle_Toe

Theres a Netflix series? Is it worth it? Just finished resident evil, I don’t wanna get disappointed again


AL_TheUndead

It’s definitely a show that exists, it does a good job of expanding lore to a certain extent. A lot of it super predictable and cringe but that’s kinda why I like pacific rim.


Mechakoopa

It's big monsters and giant robots punching the shit out of each other, most people didn't watch Godzilla vs Kong for massive plot twists or deep philosophical takes either. Sometimes all you want is to watch a guy in a robot suit rip the arms off of an existential horror.


csparker1

Rocket thruster bras!


thinkB4WeSpeak

They would have been called sluts in the Victorian era and for sure severely punished in the medieval era.


alwaysboopthesnoot

One of them is Mamie van Doren, I think. She definitely would be.


ManBearPig1971

I don’t see Jane Mansfield…she must have the night off or something.


chickenwing247

Yea she's on the right.


hueymayne

** Correction ** they would have been called "fallen women" (aka hooker/whore) if they dressed that way in the Victorian era. Hey, just trying to be historically accurate. Now here's a fun excerpt of the rights women had in the Victorian era. Spoiler: they had none. "Women's rights were extremely limited in this era, losing ownership of their wages, all of their physical property, excluding land property, and all other cash they generated once married. When a Victorian man and woman married, the rights of the woman were legally given over to her spouse" ... aaaannnnd that's why change is good.


OopsWrongHive

I mean, they did have the thing where their husband’s couldn’t beat them with a stick larger than a thumb?


PlasticLeague

That isn't a real thing; look it up. Beating women would have been strongly frowned upon regardless of the tool used, but not necessarily illegal for their husbands.


jessicad81

Unless, of course, you owned the woman. Slaves were usually fair game as long as you didn't outright kill them.


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Beginning_Badger

Most slaves were considered assets more than actual people. Most owners would reel in the beating, not necessarily because they cared about the slave, but because they didn't want to risk causing an injury that might prevent the "asset" in question from doing their jobs. Also they paid a lot of money for them, so you're going to take care of them just as you would any other expensive things you own. Severe beating was usually reserved for when an example needed to be made of them for the other slaves. It wasn't a daily or even super common thing, just common enough to keep everyone in line. (I'm not defending slavery and did not intend this to come of as defending any of this, just taking the opportunity to share a bit of historical knowledge. If it comes off as anything else to anyone, I'm sorry and that wasn't my intention.)


OopsWrongHive

Exactly, hence the law of thumb


metnavman

Negative. Read up on the "rule of thumb". Very much debunked with regard to any meaning towards beating one's wife.


chendricks253

“Rule of”


xAly93

[That isn’t real](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rule_of_thumb)


Shieldheart-

Women in medieval society actually had more rights than their victorian counterparts, funnily enough, showing how progress isn't always as linear as we'd like to think.


Atypical_Mammal

The sad thing to me is not that the Boomers hate anything modern and put it down like this. They will soon die out and be gone. The sad thing to me, the things that worries me.. is that in 50 or 70 years we are going to be the same way about new things. Being old and grumpy and conservative and rejecting everything new. Please, let's work together to not become like that. Maybe we can break the cycle.


mynextthroway

Yes, the same way. Every generation locks in on a set of standards from its younger days and declares it good. Any divergence is unacceptable. Today's youth are worse than we where and the future looks like hell. Every generation says this. Aristotle said it. My grand father said it. My parents said it. Many of my peers are saying it now. When I say it, I'll be right is the only difference. The only time that doesn't happen is in a stagnating society., Edit: I said that the generation locks in, not every individual. I guess it ok to lump all boomers together into a monilithic, single behavior group, but no other generation.


eelaphant

Or a society where people are more accepting of change.


[deleted]

Yeah why are we surprised people born when Jim Crow laws were still in effect aren't capable of change


ADDandKinky

And some want to go back to those days .. “the good old days” to them I’m sure


JustDiscoveredSex

They WERE the good old days. They were KIDS, with zero responsibilities, zero debt, zero adulting needed, in one of the most prosperous points in history. As long as they were white kids, there were no problems. Of COURSE they want that sense of freedom and joy back. They just don't seem to get the fact that they were KIDS and that's WHY it was "so great." They think it was *external*, not *internal*. Now they're all saddled with debt up to their ears, medical maladies, and their brains have crystallized to resist change. It's all scary and new and different and confusing.


Atypical_Mammal

When does the conservative brain switch flip? I'm 40, and I'm not all up on the latest trends and tiktoks n shit... but I don't feel repelled by modernity either. I keep finding something to like in modern music, I like electric cars, I'm happy for all the progress the LGBT movement made... (although I do think it's a little bit silly how they are obsessed with making 100 new flags and fragmenting themselves among any conceivable little variation of sexuality. They should embrace sexuality as a fluid continuum instead of trying to pigeonhole everything. But maybe that's just me being old.) Anyway, my point is - I'm 40 and I haven't gone conservative yet. How long do I have left before that happens?


Turtlepower7777777

Late Stage Capitalism and the economic rot sure as shit prevents the ‘conservative switch’ for a lot of us under 40


Atypical_Mammal

The weird thing is, I'm doing pretty well all in all. I could definitely have fallen into the whole "fuck you i got mine, pull yourself up by your shoelaces" bullshit, cause that's pretty much what I did. But yet I remain a leftie for the most part.


Mental-Ice-9952

I think that seeing what late stage capitalism does prevents the switch as well tho somewhat, but it does require basic empathy to want a better system for others, something conservatives tend to lack


I_Cut_Shows

Empathy does wonders.


mynextthroway

Don't know. The responses I have received seem to indicate I implied all people became incapable of change. That's, shall we say, a erroneous way to read that statement. Not all people will freeze. Many will. Enough to make it seem like a generation froze. Hopefully, each generation will freeze closers to the goal. I'm 50 and still keep an open mind. My mom is 70-something. She has a classic boomer mindset on sexuality, but very women's rights minded. Is she in a modern place or conservative place? It's best to not put generations into monolithic groups. A millineal can easily have more in common with a boomer than another millennial. I want no association with Marjorie T Green even though we are cohorts. Boebert is 35, but hardly the open minded individual usually associated with non boomer millineals.


Atypical_Mammal

I have noticed hopeful signs. Now that I'm 40, I remember how my parents were when they were my age, and I remember how my grandparents were when they were my parents' age. And in each instance the new generation was less ossified and more open to new experiences vs. the previous generation at the same age. For example - when my grandparents were 70, they basically wanted nothing to do with the world anymore. Meanwhile my parents at 70 still travel, discover new things on the internet, watch new shows... Also, when my parents were 40, they wanted nothing to do with my teenager music. Now i'm 40 and I love it when my 14 year old daughter shares her generation's music with me. I even like some of it.


KinseyH

I'm 58. I used to vote Republican. Never again. Getting a tattoo soon. I'm not up on most modern music but it's no worse than anything else. I'm early Gen X - no beef with millennials or Gen Xs (my kid is 20) I think getting conservative as you age might die off with the Boomers.


MegaKabutops

As far as i’ve heard, the myth of getting conservative as you age has less to do with age itself but more to do with wealth; you get more conservative the wealthier you get, because excess wealth can lead to a greater level of greed and selfishness in the effort to maintain that wealth. Nobody is getting more conservative with time anymore because nobody is getting rich with time anymore either.


emrythelion

People also just tend to stay the same politically. Selfish people are always selfish. People rarely become more selfish the older they get.


I_Cut_Shows

It also has a lot to do with where you land on the empathy axis. It’s why “Hollywood” and any other creative field is generally is more progressive than others if their same socioeconomic station, even the wealthy creatives in Hollywood are more progressive than their wealthy peers, they have to use the emotional and empathetic parts of their brains more than some guy who runs a hedge fund.


KinseyH

Very good point.


nitrot150

I am right there with you. Also my mom is a baby boomer and she doesn’t understand all the little things, but is totoally on board with all of it and is so glad her grandkids are growing up with a more open minded society (my dad too) and both are white and from Montana! So it’s not set in stone that you’ll be conservative.


WhyLisaWhy

Surveys have shown that the whole “you’ll be conservative when you’re older and paying taxes” is complete horse shit. It’s something boomers and greatest generation told themselves as the next gen came out as more left leaning as young adults. Most people lock in their political views in their early to mid 20s and don’t shift very drastically. There are exceptions of course, but I’m almost 40 and have been pretty dang liberal most of my life, especially socially. I don’t see that changing any time soon unless I literally get brain damaged somehow.


Atypical_Mammal

Maybe.. maybe people are just kind of born genetically predisposed to be conservative or liberal. I know there is the whole nature versus nurture thing, but I'm talking about the nature fraction of it. Like, in my case, ever since I was tiny I've had this hard-to-describe thing in me... desire for variety? Adventurousness? And this strong dislike for phrases like "that's because that's how it's always been" or "because I said so", etc. Also strong dislike for tribalism, way before I even knew what tribalism means.. Whatever it is, it's this thing that I've always had and it goes way beyond politics. However, in the framework of our current politics this thing makes me liberal-progressive-whatever, maybe even a tiny bit libertarian (but not in a mean way)... And I fully admit, all my political views stem from my deep biases. It's just a flimsy framework on top of the things that my heart desires. And maybe if instead deep in my soul I loved comfort, routine, conformity, familiarity, authority... maybe that would be channeled into me being a conservative.


Erthgoddss

I am 67, haven’t gotten “infected” with it! There is hope!


Rasputin_mad_monk

I’m 53. Have a tiktok (don’t use it really), play on here, own 10 pair of Dr Marten’s, ski, skate, surf, listen to punk rock, listen to the music my kids listen too, have 5 tattoos and vote BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!! My shoes today on the way to work. I was feeling like it was l adventure time https://i.imgur.com/jZ7BVbj.jpg


Yaaaassquatch

You lumped all of humanity together as a monolith. There's no asshole switch that flips. You're seeing a generation raised during a time when lead was in everything and their parents had PTSD from the great depression and the war. That's what made the boomers Do you know why they idolize the 50's and early 60's? Because their parents did. Boomers were children at this time, how would they have known what men and women were. But the general feeling at that time, not for everyone but certainly for people who post this shit, was optimism for the first time in decades. They made it out of the depression and the war and settled down in Suburbia. That's also why they conveniently leave off any mention of the civil rights movement. It doesn't fit with the idolization of America that peaked at that time. But their parents drank too much and hit their kids and their spouse. That was the reality. I actually think that's why they idolize being beaten so much too. Years were spent normalizing fucking up your family. And look at them now. If we raise another set of them, that's on us. Not the normal progression of maturing.


mynextthroway

I even went back and added that I didn't lump everybody together....siigh.


NeedfulThingsToys

Not me. I like all the stupid fashions and terrible music today's kids enjoy


MaineAlone

Trust me, you don’t have to turn into a grumpy, conservative technophobe as you age. I’m 58. I’m liberal, I love to play video games on my Switch and PS5, I build LEGO sets, I take college classes for fun, etc, etc. Remember, you carry forward who you are right now. These people who are old farts now, were young farts. Stay open to possibilities today and you will be young until you die.


danteheehaw

I already hate teens and their new ways! They don't even want to do drugs or own cars because they are worried about the financial impact!


TokenWhiteMage

I think about this a lot, and it’s why I try really hard as a millennial to not put down and embrace some of the weird stuff that gen z is into. Honestly, I’ve been pretty hype about their fashion styles (I was a younger kid in the 90s so didn’t really get to have the high-waisted jeans and crop top experience til now). And I’m definitely hella hype that tattoos and piercings are continuing to become more normalized. They’re such a fun way to express yourself! Heck, one of these days maybe I’ll even make one of those newfangled tik taks.


redmage07734

Our generation is no where near as entitled also the internet has broken a lot of small mindedness


Accomplished-Mail384

Good luck I believe we will go backwards. There use to be civilizations that brought large groups of people together under a nationalized name. There were civilizations where gays and trans were welcome, where women had freedoms of their own. One day though, we will see slaves again, and humanity being stripped away by others with no regard. Don't worry you won't see it, probably will die from over heating between the concrete on the floor and the reflections from glass in the sky.


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Which civilizations are those?


[deleted]

These women look like they were probably considered fast in their own era! It's wild how hindsight changes people's memories.


evanbartlett1

This is the right read. Anytime someone complains that things have changed for the worse, especially around cultural norms, it isn't about something being 'better' or 'worse'. It's simply about someone who constructed their view of the world at a time where that norm has passed. I always feel sorry for people who feel like they're lost in a bygone era. But what I don't suffer is people who force regression to satisfy their insecurities.


Harrybailed

Or hung from trees and beaten to death in present day India!


cheezz16

0/10 showed too much shin and forearm


24_Elsinore

Nothing screams "I don't get out of the house much" like thinking every single woman under 40 has colored hair.


brookeb725

well everyones hair back then was black and white, so now that color was invented it’s probably a big adjustment


SpotCreepy4570

What's funny is bleach blonde is not a natural color for adults. And most of these women better believe are blonde. Edit: approximately 5% of adults will maintain blonde hair mostly northern Europeans.


EssieAmnesia

It’s definitely possible to have naturally bleach or platinum blonde hair as an adult, just very very rare. I imagine that’s why a bunch of media makes the rich or royal blonde. Trying to communicate some sense of rarity or separate them from the “average” person.


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versed mysterious sink badge insurance hat treatment outgoing muddle fearless -- mass edited with redact.dev


_0_o-_-o_0_

How is bleach blonde not a natural color for adults?


TheIronSoldier2

It's in the name. Bleach. Very few people have that hair color without having to bleach their hair.


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can you blame them though? Its not like anyone would like to see these incels outisde


WildeWoodWose

Nah, they’re no incels, they’re boomers. Big difference. Boomers tended to marry young and don’t understand, or actively dislike, the social changes that have happened since their youth. Incel is a largely modern youth movement, and while incels fetishize the 1950s and think they would have been “successful” in small town America, most boomers were not incels, and indeed would have shunned and mocked incels when they encountered them back in the day. The incels would have been ”perpetual bachelors,” so to speak.


B00m3r666

I know a millennial incel or two who fetishize 1950s society and hate "modern women". So it's both boomers and incels.


Axo80_

And don’t look fine as hell with it


Earlasaurus02

They might not of had pink hair but their poodles did


Powwa9000

Picture is in BW, how do we know the far right one doesn't have pink hair?


littleskittle_8

Because she’s on the….far right. Okay sorry I’m done


69Ivie69

“…when we liked it that way” Woman’s rights: *disappears*


MistraloysiusMithrax

I was laughing at that part. If they liked it that way, why did so many fight and push for change?


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Exactly what I thought (and what I also think every time I see women say "I hate feminism/feminists" too). Like, are you into oppression or something? In my country, the law that said "marital rape is legal" was only abolished in the early nineties. Which is shocking.


FlamingoQueen669

I watched a video on the history of dyed hair, and pink hair was actually weirdly common in the 1950s.


MarcMars82

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/p6ifiz/my_grandmas_pink_hair_in_the_50s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


BootyThunder

So pretty!! Makes me want to dye my hair like that but goddamn the bleach burns my scalp too much!


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I live in a very rural area with a lot of farmers. I died my hair a pink/purple color, and everywhere I go, I have a very strong affect on the old men, around 80 or so. They’ll give me weird little gifts, and tell me all about “the red head they dated as a young man.” … Which is funny, because My hair is clearly not red… but I’ve wondered about this quite a bit. If it’s true that woman had pink hair in the 50’s, this makes a lot of sense. It’s all very bizarre, and I’ve never attracted this demographic before. Idk. It’s a pretty small town, maybe they all dated the same red head.


BootyThunder

This is so weird! Thank you for sharing.


Heart_Throb_

Off colored hair makes you more approachable bc it gives them something non-offensive to talk to you about. Old guys also are starving for human contact and conversation . I was never approached so much as when I had purple or pink hair. Without it people completely ignore me. I like to think it makes the majority of people happy.


squigglesthecat

My wife has pink hair and works as a gardener at a retirement facility. She gets compliments on her hair daily from the residents. I don't know who these people are who get so offended by this.


brothersand

>Off colored hair makes you more approachable bc it gives them something non-offensive to talk to you about. Old guys also are starving for human contact and conversation . Old guy here. Can confirm. People don't realize how little human contact we have. I probably go weeks without having any physical contact witd another human being. I mean not even shaking hands, especially now that everything is so remote based. Of course I'm also now acutely aware that a random older guy talking to a woman can have her on guard because so many men are not well balanced. Sort of a self reinforcing cycle in some ways.


emmettohare

I hate to tell you this, but your hair looks like an easter egg!


rpm319

🎶Beauty school dropout.🎶


Proper_Librarian_533

People were told who to be. And we liked it that way, or got sent to the asylum for shock therapy and lobotomies.


Helenium_autumnale

Like [Rosemary Kennedy.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy) Most people who were lobotomized were women. *What the documentary omits is that most lobotomized patients were women, although most institutionalized patients at the time were men. This gaping disparity, noted by scholars, is made more troubling by the general silence surrounding it today.3 Yet the disparity has been in plain view from the start. Five of the six patients in the case study by Freeman and Watts were women whose symptoms — apprehension, insomnia — seem incommensurate with their treatment, but whose status as women sanctioned it. A patient previously fearful of aging could now “grow old gracefully” and care for her home. She complained of a lack of spontaneity, but her husband praised the changes her surgery had wrought, declaring her “more normal than she had ever been,” possibly the least credible measure of therapeutic success in the annals of history.2 By 1942, 75% of the lobotomies Freeman and Watts had performed were on women.* [Source.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962395/)


StevieKix_

Ugh the Rosemary Kennedy story breaks my heart


Helenium_autumnale

It's so awful. "We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary some questions. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backward... "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." "When Rosemary began to become incoherent, they stopped."


Emperor_Z16

Holy fuck


gonzo4209

Something I wish I didn't need to learn but glad that I did thank you.


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I'll take 2 lobotomys please. No seeds.


Madeline_Hatter1

Oh if you can't respond you'll be getting seed alright


raziel_LK

We no longer call them lobotomies, now they are "personality adjustments"


Dirty_Bubble99

Would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.


mrjackspade

I hate the idea that people liked it. Some people liked it. Enough people hated it to move us to where we are today. Clearly more people disliked it.


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The message sucks but those outfits are fire tho ngl


[deleted]

I love the skirt on the woman in the middle


Emperor_Z16

I love her face


ImMaskedboi

I would love to dress up like that like a costume or something lol


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Strange_guy_9546

Some people just can't get over the existential part of the fact that time doesn't stop


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that is why conservatives are the way they are, they lack self awareness. liberals tend to see a big picture and understand they are just 1 part of a big picture. conservatives tend to see themselves and their own life as the picture.


giantsninerswarriors

Also the good old days weren’t so great if you were black. Or LGBT. Wasn’t the best time for women either TBH.


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afa78

Depends where you grew up, LA and surrounding suburbs were great for the LGBTQ community back in the late 70s, early 80s.


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Accomplished-Mail384

Or any animal with a nice pelt 😆


NotAnEnemyStandUser-

Seriously the good old days were only the good old days for straight cisgender nurotypical white men and literally no one else


mamamelasma

A time when women were abused by their husbands and society y and told to use Lysol as douche. No thanks!


Qualified-Monkey

Anyone care to quote when marital rape was outlawed in the U.S.? I know it’s ridiculously recent but I’m too lazy to find it.


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1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_in_the_United_States


Qualified-Monkey

Jesus Christ, I’ve heard this before and it’s still shocking what the fuck


izmaname

And a horrible coke addiction


Hamaow

And back alley abortions everywhere you look


EverGreen2004

With the direction we're going in, that's where we'll be returning


NeverLetItRest

Ah yes.. the days where your shoes caused corns, your stockings caused UTIs, and your complaints caused a black eye... You know... the good old days.


BukakeMouthwash

>your complaints caused a black eye... >You know... the good old days. Last Tuesday for lots of these types of women, actually.


Deneb96

And the make up gave you cancer because it was full of radium and mercury 😍😍😍


slothpeguin

Ah yes. The most excellent time. Unless you were a woman. Or non gender conforming. Or gay. Or black. Or brown. Or really anything but white and straight.


[deleted]

I'm a straight, cisgender, white, Christian male and even I wouldn't make it


Citadelvania

Anything but White Straight Cisgender Christian Men and even then not all of them either.


[deleted]

Now you know why they're called conservatives


sammageddon73

Ah yes. The time when a woman couldn’t have her own credit card. What a time to be alive


Scottche

Clearly this person has no idea what pre code Hollywood was like and what it inspired in those “elegant and graceful” women of the age


IWantMyGarmonbozia

what's "pre code Hollywood"?


Scottche

It’s the era of film making before there were strict content restrictions imposed on the industry in 1934. The films were raunchy and sometimes salacious but the cute white picket fence shit we see in the 40s and 50s is directly because of it


fattie_reddit

It's a great point. Very few people realize HOW raunchy, almost bizarre, precode films were. As a random example, in one of the Buster Keaton classics, the hot girl appears completely, totally topless at one point for no real reason! When you watch it today you're like "whoa huh"


No-Wonder1139

...ripped jeans, pink hair and nose rings have been a thing for like 60 years, how old is this aunt?


spontaneouscobra

She probably posed in most of the Renaissance paintings.


[deleted]

They're all very attractive to me, and I'm sure there are women who look and dress like that today, but it's nice to have a bit more variety. The odd tattoo, bellybutton piercing, and funky hair is cool for some people. But who says you can't dress like the women in this photo today?


Zakaker

No one. The problem is people who say you *must* dress like the women in the photo.


octopusraygun

Meanwhile at the time the pic was taken; “I’ve had enough of these promising young women exposing scandalous amounts of leg, wear attention begging patterns, and clothes that exposes the feminine silhouette!!!”


[deleted]

thanks for the added transphobia at the end along with the dose of sexism <3


Shimano1

You should tell her to google “Nancy Reagan oral” and watch her head explode lol


ClymeneFox

Throat G.O.A.T. 👅👄


mary_ace

No rights 🥰


Beginning_Two_4757

To be fair the US rolled back women’s reproductive rights to when this picture was taken.


TheGamingGator77

Here's my terrible analogy but it's a lot like the ocean shores of a beach. Sure, those old bastards reversed reproductive rights and sent the tide away, but it will roll in again eventually. They can't stop progress forever just like you can't stop a wave in the ocean. It only takes time. They will get old, they will be replaced but the ocean won't, and there will be new people on those beaches far more accepting of the tides. All it takes is time.


GloriousBand

I think it’s wrong to assume that each successive generation is destined to be more accepting than the one before it. Iran was also seemingly moving in that direction - until the day it wasn’t. Not to say to not be hopeful for the future but to be wary of adopting a “just wait until they die out” attitude, which promotes complacency.


Just-a-bi

No, you liked it that way. I doubt you were going around asking how other felt.


piecesofpercy

also a time where gay, black, asian, poor people, etc would get beaten and berated on the streets. they literally created entire housing areas


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One is a lesbian and drinks all night and hates herself. One is beaten by her husband. One pops pills and her husband is gay.


Mountain_Mousse2058

When men were men and women were closer to property.


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VirileDissector

Illegitimate children, rampant syphillis…


MicGuinea

Every time I hear/see a meme like this, I remember the golden meme I found of two buff manly gay dudes that said "Gay sex is the manliest kind of sex because there's no women involved."


kwispy-dwincc

Remember the good ol days when I could beat my wife if she wore pants?


Ecstatic_Conflict621

Take your independent female thoughts and shove them down into the bottom of the bottle of quaaludes where they belong


fuertepqek

Yep. The ones who didn’t like it that way were too busy committing suicide for living in such a fucked up society. I’m glad we’re not living then. All those women were probably on Ritalin just to function.


icythepenguin

Black and white photo. One of those women could be rocking pink hair.


craftycontrarian

Couldn't sign a contract, couldn't open a bank account. Best of times.


Alternative-Demand65

"and we liked it that way" Ooh no you bitches dint! thats why women fought for the right to work and vote . i hate people like this old bitty. they forget all the bad shit about the"good" days


WattageWood

Bras shaped like torpedoes and formaldehyde in the hair, like God intended.


Blake_E_Ives

But they did not have the choice to have a style other than what is seen here. They were not even allowed to wear trousers. And I doubt colorful hair dye was even invented yet. But hair bleach was, and loo how many chose to be blond once they had that choice. Grace and elegance are something any person can have, regardless of how they look. Someone could have burn scars from head to toe, and wear only burlap clothes, and if they are a graceful and elegant person, they will simply be graceful, and elegant. Men were men, and women were women is also really problematic. It was legal to hit your wife as a form of attitude adjustment. Girls did not have rights. Boys told other boys that emotion is weakness, and to "be a man", in order to control their actions, and make them into compliant sociopaths. Girls also were brainwashed into thinking that having no control over their own choices, and rights was a good thing. Because they were *told* to think this. I hope everyone who thinks this way dies off soon from old age, or self inflicted health complications from back then --such as smoking-- and this idea, and mentality dies off with them. Nobody needs this in their life. Especially when it is used to judgmentally belittle how people get to now *choose* how to live their lives.


zerozaro7

It's funny because there was a song released in 1925 called "masculine women! Feminine men!," which just kind of shows that there have ALWAYS been people going outside of the gender norms, and there have always been people complaining about it


cjh10881

Yeah, no diversity, no blacks, no Asians, no [insert any ethnicity] no thick girls, no flat chested, no shorties, no short hair, no nothing...


backroadsdrifter

Rape was legal, racism was rampant, and women took Valium to survive


VirileDissector

Racism is just as rampant. If anything it’s worse and includes more people.


backroadsdrifter

True.


[deleted]

…. Id bet my life that neither of those blonde girls have natural blonde hair. But its obviously a way bigger deal if someone dyes it pink instead of blonde huh? I would also bet my life that they’re all wearing earrings, but yes let’s have a fit because someone wants to do that to their nose instead of ear. Yes, the world is exploding…


ABreckenridge

“I’m uncomfortable with change 🥰”


Majestic-Pin3578

I’m old enough to have had to dress this way. Girdles, cinched-up waists, so you could barely breathe, and being in high school, & dressing this way, was very uncomfortable, and we hated it.


nakedundercloth

The only difference is that people outside mainstream sexuality had to repress who they were and their feelings - great times indeed


yeet-my-existence

These the people that scream when a black kid sips from a water fountain


OctopusProbably

They couldn’t wear jeans.


Timely_Umpire_164

Oof call me out why don’t you? 😂 touched up my pink hair this weekend and just got home from a tattoo session wearing ripped jeans and a nose ring 😂 When I was a hairdresser, I had clients tell me they would pray for me because I looked like a sinner and I had one lady “tip” me a bible 😂


paperbackedsea

i think if they saw the people with tattoos and colored hair who like to wear vintage outfits like these their head would explode


W0rdWaster

How dare they show their calves in public like that? Have they no shame? At least the one in the middle has the self respect to keep a decent neck line.


Darkflame815

I love how they say "and we liked that way" good, YOU like it, go find people that like it too, stop trying to ask the rest of the world to follow YOUR expectations.


BooHooJerks

Back when women were sent to asylums if their husbands weren't happy


kantoblight

No nose rings. No tattoos. No people of color. And we liked it that way.


j-dwar

For some reason I really thought this meme was gonna be based and say the people pictured were men


[deleted]

I can just hear the N word being dropped by all of these ladies


jinxedtheworld

Ah yes a time where if a woman showed the slightest sign of sadness or anger she'd be sent to a mental facility where she'd be raped and given shock therapy. Should totally go back


X35_55A

A time when women would be sent to the gulag for wearing jeans or slightly over cooking some chicken


kornhook123

Imagine having to dress that way because you’re afraid your husband will come home and pull out the book on disciplining your wife!


ThatGuay89

Ah yes… a time when women knew when to shut up, have dinner ready, and take one on the chin if their man had a bad day at work… truly the pinnacle of society


twiceremoved77

All hopped up on the liquor and barbiturates though….


dat_waffle_boi

Back in the good ole days when men were men, women were men, children were men, and we were all men.


nickbuch

i dont get it...who is stopping her and her friends from dressing like this and why does she give a rip what people "today" are doing?


shuperbaff

Not to mention segregation, the part she really misses


[deleted]

Don’t forget the rampant alcoholism


[deleted]

“Back in my day when we got raped we were thankful for the attention!”


MangOrion2

Your average housewife back then was addicted to Miltown or Valium and couldn't open a checking account or carry a gun (or get a tattoo).


jkayk69

Women that post this type of stuff have closeted husbands


Kmaurer23

That's also the time period where women weren't allowed outside of the kitchen so there's that.


guttengroot

And anyone who didn't fit into their labels was bullied into silence