We should go back to the 1950's where all was great

[Erika]

Women stayed home and had babies without the freedom of contraception. Men took care of them. God's hand was on all of us. We were living the life "He" intended.

I can't believe it. This was a post on a popular right wing site.

Do they not recognize the reality of the 50's for the blacks? for women's career goals? for segregation or gay rights? for voter rights?

How do we end up with these hopelessly naive people?

[C_U_L8R]

1. Lets just send the republicans back there

the future is liberal

[fortyfeetunder]

5. As long as it's a one way ticket back!

;)

[Erika]

6. These people have absolute warped minds

Go back 50 years? The only people who had any power were white males. There were two columns in the help wanted - male/female. The male were bank loan officers, the female were bank tellers, etc.

I actually had an older feamle bank employee tell me years ago that they didn't mind not getting advancements or raises as long as the men helped them put on their sweaters and opened the doors for them.

It blew my mind.

[StellaBlue]

The "good old days" are only that for wealthy. white. men.

:eyes:

[Erika]

10. Yep and that's who is in charge of the GOP n/t

[SharonAnn]

36. Who didn't get polio, or leukemia, or measles, or mumps, or ???

Because we were all exposed to thse and some of my friends died from them. Others were physically or mentally impaired by them.

ah yes, the 50's.

[htuttle]

2. Scientific revolutions take nearly a generation to really sink in....

...according to Kuhn.

Social revolutions take much, much longer than that.

[Webster Green]

3. '59 Chevys..

Yeah!

[EFerrari]

11. Me!

Yeah!

lol

[Cameron27]

24. 59 T-birds

[Robbien]

4. And the kids were told to hide under their desks

when the air raid sirens wents off.
The McCarthy hearings were also a barrel of laughs.

Yes, send the crazy rightwingnuts back there.

[Erika]

7. Yeah, since we were only 40 miles from a SAC base

we had curtain pulls at night so the enemy couldn't see the lights to bomb us.

They really want to go back there? The good old days?

[tyedyeto]

8. And where women died from back alley abortions... NO THANKS!

[Erika]

12. That's when the coat hangers became a symbol

along with castor oil. Women had no rights in the 50's.

[tyedyeto]

13. We've come a long way baby...

there are miles and miles to go still.

Sad that it has to be said in this day and age. :cry:

[Erika]

20. But we WON'T go back

Leave that to the theocrats and weak minded. We're not going there again.

[tyedyeto]

35. It's sad to say that in many parts of this country...

we are indeed going backwards.

Sex education, birth control, womens right in the workplace and other related issues have sadly regressed back to that era. When pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions and schools may no longer speak about avoiding pregnancy, what does that say about this generation? I, for one, am thankful that my children grew up in a place that spoke openly about consequences regarding sexual activity and that my home was openly frank as well as the school system.

[Kathryn STone]

39. Erika-what does the castor oil mean?sorry to be a dummie

[rockymountaindem]

9. Some of them realize all those things

and for them, that's the point. Scary, isn't it?

[Erika]

15. Very scary. White men controlling all.

Sad to see some would want to go back there. Selfish stupid bastards.

[madrchsod]

14. the 50`s sucked

i was born in 47 and as a kid the 50`s sucked. ever seen "Pleasantville"? ya i remember going thru mississippi and seeing "colored only" signs and driving out a few miles from towns and passing the "colored towns".being a nine year old kid from northern illinois that sure opened my eyes.....ya lets all go back to the 50`s.

[Erika]

23. Colored towns?

And they want to go back?

[madrchsod]

38. bad choose of words

i must have not been clear in my post

[mmonk]

16. Why wouldn't you believe it was a post on a popular

rightwing site? They're not regressive for nothing.

[BlueStorm]

27. Right, and that is why I call them Regressionists, n/t

[upi402]

17. those guys don't care about them, and their little ladies are Stepfords

:silly: :evilgrin:

[NoSheep]

18. Men took care of them?

[Erika]

26. I remember the Dick and Jane type stories

Men went to work and women washed clothes, baked, etc.

[NoSheep]

31. And isn't it fascinating that society translated that into men taking care

of women? ugh.

[ThomWV]

19. I am old enough to have seen segregation. Let's not go back.

[RebelOne]

41. I remember it well in the South.

Separate rest rooms and water fountains for blacks and whites. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and couldn't be served in white restaurants.

[Skittles]

21. they aren't hopelessly naive, Erika

they are willfully ignorant which is much, much worse

[Catherine Vincent]

22. I don't want to go back. My people had it bad back then.

[Erika]

34. The poor had it bad back then

When I was in school in an "upper class" neighborhood, the poor kids served the upper kids lunch as a way to "earn" their lunch. They cooked, they served, they cleaned up. That's when I became a democrat. It's never left me.

[Warpy]

25. Men didn't always take care of women

and alcoholism was rampant. Men abandoned their families just like they do now, only welfare wasn't limited to two years. You just had to watch your kids growing up poor and humiliated on welfare.

Because contraception was not widely available, orphanages were still out there for the surplus infants that didn't find homes. They were worse than living with Mom on welfare, something a lot of single women couldn't get if they wanted to keep their children. Bearing a child out of wedlock was the worst thing a woman could do, worse than murder, proof she was too morally lax to be trusted with an innocent child. The sperm donors got off scot free without DNA tests to prove paternity.

God's hand was a heavy one on everyone but successful white males back in the 50s. Only people who didn't live through it or are so demented they've forgotten most of it can afford to wax nostalgic about it.

[Erika]

28. True. I forgot men were held harmless in out of wedlock births

The woman was just an automatic slut. If she had been decent, the man would have married her. It's coming back now.

[Mr_Spock]

29. Oh, those racist misogynistic bigots surely realize those things

...perhaps you are the naive one - no insult intended.

[Erika]

32. Quite possible

I was raised in a black neighborhood and attended a school whose teachers were from a learning college. Our hands, ears, necks, were checked for cleanliness and meals and snacks were automatically provided.

It wasn't until our family moved to an upscale neighborhood that I learned some were treated differently than the rest. Bad, very bad, memories.

[imouttahere]

30. Man, I thought they were talking about the 1750's!

At least that's what many of the neocon policy decisions would indicate.

[ComerPerro]

33. you assume they care about any of those things

[zulchzulu]

37. Ya gotta love that Good Ol' McCarthyism!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5257512064281674287&q=joe+mccarthy&hl=en

[zbdent]

40. And when fathers molested their daughters, or priests molested

young boys, nobody ever talked about it or did anything about it ...