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In the 50's the right was in control.

gascon

Posted 2:17 pm, 07/07/2024

hep and anti used the chastity belts with lock and key. the rich could afford them the rest, you know the rest of the story. the only problem is they lost the key and they wore the things up into 40's explaining a lot.

gascon

Posted 2:11 pm, 07/07/2024

it was common to sex with relatives in the day. the roads were dirt trails for feet walking. doors didnt have locks so hornies could enter easily. lot of inbreeding explaing the average 65 iq. animals were abused at random by stiff hornies. grandy could sleep in certain rooms to get hers. the horny thinking it be less ripe. rich no differ in wilkes all join in. it was a regular hoe down. moonshine, guitar playing while you hoe down. party till sunrise, then sleep. garden stuff was shared along with wemens and mens. animals would hide.

antithesis

Posted 2:10 pm, 07/07/2024

You might not like it, Tilly, but rape and assault were extremely common. There was simply nowhere for them to go for help... rape was shameful for the woman or girl, so if they did come forward then they would be the ones shamed instead of the rapist.

Young girls were always sexually harassed by men, and were expected to like it. If they complained then, again, they were the ones ostracized and called names.

No one thought it was wrong, it was just what men did! No one even tried to talk about it until the 1970s...


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Tilly22

Posted 2:06 pm, 07/07/2024

What about you personally Hep? Yes or no

Hepsibah

Posted 2:03 pm, 07/07/2024

I knew several young girls who were molested during that time period. Almost all of those molestations happened at church......by adult men.

gascon

Posted 2:02 pm, 07/07/2024

back in the day roads were few and for feet travel which lead to more relatives sex in. the doors were left unlocked for this purpose. back in the day everything was shared garden stuff, wifees, husbands, and animals if you dare. no laws to protect, just moonshine to ease the pain which everyone thought normal. anti im guessing was from this era. living in finley didnt help the process much, the rich sex with each others thinking the kids would be smarter- hence explains ant's 80 iq compared to the resty 50 iq.

Tilly22

Posted 1:49 pm, 07/07/2024

Ok this poll is for Anti,

Anyone who grew up in the 50s and 60s let Anti know if you were molested or not.

I was a small child in the sixties and I assure you Anti I was never molested.

Anonymoose

Posted 1:48 pm, 07/07/2024

Regan was actually against that might take your blinders off.

antithesis

Posted 1:13 pm, 07/07/2024

Wow, what an amazing and insightful response, Tilly! Good job

Tilly22

Posted 1:10 pm, 07/07/2024

"It's rare to meet someone that grew up during that era that wasn't molested."

One of Anti's more head shake producing comments.

antithesis

Posted 1:04 pm, 07/07/2024

You didn't have to lock your doors


That's more of a sign of ignorance in the time.

In 1969, there were 3,680 crimes per 100,000 people. The murder rate was 7.3.

In 2019, there were 2,489.3 crimes per 100,000 people. The murder rate was 5.0.


That information stops at 2019, but you can see that the violent crime rate went up in 2020, then continued to decrease through 2022.


You knew your neighbors

I know my neighbors... if you don't then that's a reflection on you, not the era.

The law enforcement was respected

True. But again, that was more of a sign of ignorance. The Blue Shield kept people from ever knowing about criminal cops.

The most dangerous place for a baby was not in the mothers womb

We'll never know, because abortion wasn't legal yet. But abortion still happened, of course, and with no legal restrictions you can be sure that they happened much later in the pregnancy, and the fetus suffered a much more terrible death.


But still... the most dangerous place was in the home, where a LOT of them were raped and molested. Which everyone knew about, but they all just looked the other way

Didn't know any homeless people

True. We had almost eradicated the homeless problem, until Reagan cut funding to mental health and substance abuse, literally pushing all of them right back out on the street.


The races were not bitterly divided

Ar... are you serious?



Children had an innocence past 5 yr old

That's just nonsense. It's rare to meet someone that grew up during that era that wasn't molested.

You could catch a ride to town and were not afraid to pick someone up and give them a ride

Sure... which is a reflection of the ignorance. See the crime rate above...

GoNC

Posted 12:34 pm, 07/07/2024

I removed several posts that were off topic.

tribune

Posted 12:29 pm, 07/07/2024

You missed a couple of items on your list f*xxy: You could get a real good shoeshine in the barber's shop. Those people knew their place.

ratshot

Posted 6:16 am, 07/07/2024

That had asthma, referred to Joe Biden.

Foxnose

Posted 9:44 pm, 07/06/2024

You didn't have to lock your doors

You knew your neighbors
The law enforcement was respected
The most dangerous place for a baby was not in the mothers womb
Didn't know any homeless people
Some Democrats had some sense
The races were not bitterly divided
Children had an innocence past 5 yr old
You could catch a ride to town and were not afraid to pick someone up and give them a ride
oh, we could go on and on It was better

the dog's butler

Posted 8:20 pm, 07/06/2024

I was 13 in 1967 and to young to drive and take a date to the drive-in. I was old enough to walk several blocks to a Saturday afternoon sci-fi/horor double feature at the theater with my best friend. It cost 35 cents (extra for snacks).

Yes. It was cheapper and probabily safer. The movies were not always good but the popcorn and candy were.

Not all my friends could see these movies because thier parrents did not approve of those types of movies

Now I can watch most of those movies on the internet.

ratshot

Posted 7:58 pm, 07/06/2024

Wonder how many illegal things went on in Southeast Asia

DB Cooper

Posted 7:49 pm, 07/06/2024

In 1967 about this time on a Saturday night I would be pulling into the Starlite Drive-In with a good looking honey snuggled up to me. Does it get any better than that?

tribune

Posted 7:32 pm, 07/06/2024

Everyone?

the dog's butler

Posted 7:31 pm, 07/06/2024

We don't get measles, mumps, chicken pox or polio anymore (unless your parrents are anti-vaxers)

Cars are safer. Most of us even wear seat belts.

Less people smoke cigarettes and you can eat in a resturant and even work in an office without the person next to you smoking.

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