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BarbD

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9. The long list of what is appropriate for a female is soooooo long.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Apr 10, 2021, 02:50 PM

Apr 2021

Try parochial school in the '40s. Heaven forbid if we caused the boys to have an "occasion of sin." It was assumed and encouraged that our role in life was to be good mothers and wives. I can't recall anyone telling the boys to be good fathers and husbands. And only men could be priests -- celibate priests at that. The nuns took oaths of chastity, poverty and obedience. What a warped existence the Catholic Church promoted in their denial of human sexuality.

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Sexist PSAs From The '40s and '50s Show How Far Women Have Come NowThis [View all] Quixote1818 Apr 2021 OP

Oh, brother! We'd STILL see them all over if Repugs had their way peppertree Apr 2021 #1

100% correct. Funny but I thought the first lady they were ripping on looked great. LOL nt Quixote1818 Apr 2021 #2

It's funny how propaganda usually ends up conveying the opposite of what was intended peppertree Apr 2021 #5

concealing marijuana cigarettes in hotdog buns, those were the days. Jetheels Apr 2021 #6

I remember our "health" textbooks in the late 50's giving girls that kind of advice Arkansas Granny Apr 2021 #3

As the video says "You don't seem like the type to make this guy behave like a human being". Quixote1818 Apr 2021 #4

In eight grade, the girls had home ec & the boys had shop. CrispyQ Apr 2021 #7

My school had a similar switch. Delmette2.0 Apr 2021 #11

Rifftrax shorts. snort Apr 2021 #8

The long list of what is appropriate for a female is soooooo long. BarbD Apr 2021 #9

And then there was this iconic catch phrase: LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2021 #10

MCC pfitz59 Apr 2021 #12