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Originally Posted by redwitch
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It makes it virtually impossible to continue a dialogue when you insert your observations inside of my quoted material.
Accordingly, I will simply say that you may be well read on the "evils" of the 1950s, a period during which you were an infant and young child, but I was living through that time as a college student, college graduate, police department employee, and married man. You read about it; I lived it.
I will skip over the Feminist rhetoric that "many women" did not want to be housewives because there never was, nor ever will be a situation where everyone is happy with their life roles. Having a daughter with a college degree, I would be happy to see her in any life role of which she is capable and in which she would be happy.
I didn't state that racial segregation was abolished in the 1950s; I did point out that certain history changing events occurred in that period that laid the foundation for eventual progress. By the way, Governor Wallace "standing in the schoolhouse door" was entirely for show. He was using the Alabama National Guard for muscle, so President Kennedy federalized the Guard and had their Commanding Officer order Wallace to move. After further assertions of State's Rights, Wallace moved away. President Kennedy also directed that the federalized Guard facilitate Black registration in schools throughout Alabama.
Again, I don't know where you lived, but the places where I lived did not tolerate wife beating, which you characterized as being accepted so long as the item used was "less than the width of the man's thumb." And, under current Florida law, if police are called to a report of domestic abuse and one partner shows signs of having been struck, the other person IS going to jail. There is no wiggle room.
It is not "romanticizing the fifties" to have happy memories of the great era of muscle cars, Rock and Roll, and growing prosperity of the Middle Class after the deprivations of World War II. It was, in fact, an era of evolving and improving conditions in America.
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