How things have changed since 1955

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:33 pm

Don't complain if he's late for dinner, or has gone out all night, count this is minor compared to what he may have gone through all day...

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:59 pm

You want Aja to come back to Rockpage and school us on feminist theory, don't you, Ron?

On a somewhat related note, has anybody been watching the series Mad Men? It takes a look at the 1960s corporate world and explores the gender differences imposed by society at the time. I really dig the whole series.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:18 pm

Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him.

See that's what i'm talking about! Nothing like coming home from a hard day's work to find the missus all twisted up with another hottie!!!

"Welcome home, dear ... how was work?" lol

r:>)

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:48 pm

I'd love to have a time machine!!!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:51 pm

I'm waiting for the explosion when Yankee Rose reads this.

Post by **Ron** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:06 pm

Please send all complaints to "Housekeeping Monthly".

ZappasXWife · Post by **ZappasXWife** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:40 pm

Have seen this several times, always entertaining. Do you really think this was for real ? Hard to believe. Kind of explains my mom's bitterness (she was 2 generations older than me and would have been 92 if still alive).

See that's what i'm talking about! Nothing like coming home from a hard day's work to find the missus all twisted up with another hottie!!!

Yea well I think all of you guys enjoy this fantasy but you also KNOW the reality (think overweight butches with pockmarks and bad teeth who smell like cigarettes and copenhagen)

J Michaels · Post by **J Michaels** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:49 pm

I use this exact article / feature in my class when discussing gender stratification. Too funny to see it pop up here.....................

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:15 pm

ZappasXWife wrote:
See that's what i'm talking about! Nothing like coming home from a hard day's work to find the missus all twisted up with another hottie!!!
Yea well I think all of you guys enjoy this fantasy but you also KNOW the reality (think overweight butches with pockmarks and bad teeth who smell like cigarettes and copenhagen)

Classic.

I have some lesbian friends, whom I like a lot, but even if they wanted me... yikes. Lady Bics aren't just a hetero thing.

Besides, part of why we get along is the lack of the usual boy/girl stuff. I ain't exactly Brad Pitt, myself.

-------->JMS

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:59 pm

Reading that makes me think of the Cleavers.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:09 am

My girlfriend got a laugh out of this Ron

Sadly, that's how things were back then though, weren't they? Simplicity and naivity were the ways of the land.

You guys ever see those old videos about how marijuana would make someone into a raging demon who would kill at the drop of a hat? Those were funny.

Mistress_DB · Post by **Mistress_DB** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:38 am

Women were considered below the men. The phrase pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen comes to mind. Cook, clean and pop out babies. Sex was something done in the dark with as little fuss as possible and whenever he wanted it without question.

It's interesting to read that now and see how far we have come as women.

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:25 pm

Is that old?

Those are still the rules in my house....

My woman knows her place.....

Luckily she doesn't know her way around the internet and will probably never find this post too... hehe....

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:43 pm

metalchurch wrote:You guys ever see those old videos about how marijuana would make someone into a raging demon who would kill at the drop of a hat? Those were funny.

I love "That 70s Show" and in one episode, Red finds out the kids are "partaking" and proceeds to kick their asses about the dangers of toking. They did one of their patented "old sKool public service announcement" skits set up like the scare tactic films from the 50s where Donna gets killed cuz Hyde was high and shot her.

Hilarious.

r:>)

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:55 pm

I remember a film in grade school where they flat-out said if you smoked marijuana, it will make you jump out a window. They even showed the college-aged kid vaulting through the glass. I remember he seemed to hang in mid-air, like Wile E. Coyote, before splatting 2 stories below.
I don't recall weed ever "making" me do anything... I vaguely remember weed making me NOT do a lot of things, though.

Wait, it made me tip a pizza guy $20 once, and I had to borrow gas money to get home.

--->JMS

J Michaels · Post by **J Michaels** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:00 pm

songsmith wrote:Wait, it made me tip a pizza guy $20 once, and I had to borrow gas money to get home. --->JMS

That's funny right there.....

Yes, this is a real article from Housekeeping Monthly. It reflected the content of what was in Home Economics cookbooks from the time, and, as some commented, was also reinforced in popular media (the Cleavers, Ozzie and Harriet, etc.)

Let it be noted that there is nothing wrong with this approach. If a woman wanted to adopt this role, what is wrong with that? The problem comes in only allowing women to fulfill this role. If they want to be a career woman, that should be fine, too. If a man wanted to perform this sort of role for his career-minded wife, so be it.

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:44 pm

songsmith wrote:I don't recall weed ever "making" me do anything... I vaguely remember weed making me NOT do a lot of things, though. Wait, it made me tip a pizza guy $20 once, and I had to borrow gas money to get home. --->JMS

I was about 19 and I was partying with some friends and we ate some acid, it was around this time of year and we decided to drive around and see if we could find some Christmas lights to look at. (Don't ask me

)
Anyway, I was driving and there was a car following me with their headlights blaring in my rearview mirror, and no matter where I adjusted it, the lights were still there bright as day. It seemed like they wanted around me cause they were dodging left and right. (atleast it seemed like it)
So I pulled over and let them around. When the car passed me, I realized it was an old man in a Cadillac, who was a local, and he was known for driving slow as hell.
I felt like a dumbass. Then I proceeded to laugh about it for the next 10-15 minutes before proceeding on our journey.

The Beatles are some weird stuff to listen to while on acid.

I never liked driving in town while on weed cause I get weirded out. One time I sat at a red light , and never went when it turned green.

So I sat there again for the next green light. You'd think the people behind me honking their horns would have got my attention...

Good times..

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:50 pm

songsmith wrote:I remember a film in grade school where they flat-out said if you smoked marijuana, it will make you jump out a window. They even showed the college-aged kid vaulting through the glass. I remember he seemed to hang in mid-air, like Wile E. Coyote, before splatting 2 stories below.
I don't recall weed ever "making" me do anything... I vaguely remember weed making me NOT do a lot of things, though. Wait, it made me tip a pizza guy $20 once, and I had to borrow gas money to get home. --->JMS

I believe you're talking about Reefer Madness.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:05 pm

witchhunt wrote: I believe you're talking about Reefer Madness.

The That 70s Show skit that Rob was talking about is a parody of Reefer Madness, which I finally got to see this past summer. It's some funny shit.

The premise is that a bunch of high school kids start hanging around with this dealer who gets them hooked on weed. Long story short, the kids start acting all weird, and the main character ends up accidently shooting his girlfriend when he gets into a fight with some dude trying to rape her.

I love anti-marijuana propaganda. My favorite modern commerical is the one where the guys run over the girl on a bicylce at a fast food drive-thru. I know that's it's supposed to be serious and morbid, but I laugh hysterically everytime I see that commerical.

JackANSI · Post by **JackANSI** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:15 pm

bassist_25 wrote:I love anti-marijuana propaganda. My favorite modern commerical is the one where the guys run over the girl on a bicylce at a fast food drive-thru. I know that's it's supposed to be serious and morbid, but I laugh hysterically everytime I see that commerical.

I thought I was the only one who laughed at that. Least I won't be completely alone in hell

RE OP:

I can't believe that women used to think that was their place. Too bad they don't make'em like that anymore.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:52 pm

witchhunt wrote:I believe you're talking about Reefer Madness.

Nope, I have that one on DVD. The film I saw was courtesy of the State Police, though it could have been made by anyone. It was likely from the late 60's, judging by how I remember the fashions. It was also in color, while Reefer Madness was made in the run-up to criminalization, in '36, I think. It was gov't propaganda, and I've heard it was made by Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate. He had a vested interest in criminalization... it takes decades to grow an acre of pulpwood for paper, and only a few months for hemp... he pretty much controlled the paper industry then. He and the other robber barons needed hemp to go away, they had too much invested in paper, cotton, and other things hemp replaces easily. All they had to do was point out that wetback migrant workers smoked marijuana, and that they sometimes killed one another... it was a slam-dunk.
Corporations always have our best interests in mind.

--->JMS

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:18 pm

witchhunt wrote:I believe you're talking about Reefer Madness.

I graduated in 1981, and unless Reefer Madness included it, I recall seeing something in the mid to late 70s regarding the dangers of PCP/Angel Dust (someone jumped out a window), right around the time we were shown the Scared Straight film, or whatever it was called. (Most of us knew better about weed by then.)

Btw UCJoe, I find things like that HILARIOUS. Just goes to show you don't know me, at all.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everyone!

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:25 am

YankeeRose wrote:
witchhunt wrote:I believe you're talking about Reefer Madness.

I graduated in 1981, and unless Reefer Madness included it, I recall seeing something in the mid to late 70s regarding the dangers of PCP/Angel Dust, right around the time we were shown the Scared Straight film, or whatever it was called. (Most of us knew better about weed by then.)

Btw UCJoe, I find things like that HILARIOUS. Just goes to show you don't know me, at all.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everyone!

I know you. I watch you through the window all the time.

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:41 am

witchhunt wrote:I know you. I watch you through the window all the time.

Backatcha. There are all manner of "windows" one can "look through".

BOO! MuahahahahahaHA!