I’m glad I live in 2013 in the U.S. It’s not a perfect time with no problems, of course. I get that.
Most of the time it seems people say they “remember the good old days,” you know, when things were simpler and better.
Sometimes I get nostalgic too.
This idea that things were better in the past is, of course, a myth generally speaking. Every era has its benefits and its downsides.
This clipping is my favorite recent example. (Buzz Feed featured it.)
It’s a newspaper clip which appears to be printed in The Mirror of New York. They ask ordinary men if it’s a good idea to “spank their wives.” (Meaning hit them, of course.) Their eyewear fashions point to a time in the 1950s or early 1960s, which might be why I remember driving in the car with my grandpa as he hauled off and cracked my grandma in the head or arm when he got upset with her. (When he was lost or frustrated, and she should have told him where to turn?) He was just a man of his times and she needed it, from his perspective.
It makes the women’s rights movement a little more palatable now, right?
Manhood is seen differently now, in this century, and for that I am immensely glad! You too?
You like the qualifier in this headline? “If she needs it,“? Priceless.
Good luck telling the police that line now. “Yes, I hit her, officer, but she needed it.”
Funny, right?
(Only looking back, and only laughing so you don’t cry for yesterday’s women.)
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