(08-22-2019, 08:15 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(08-20-2019, 02:34 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-19-2019, 07:55 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:(08-14-2019, 10:55 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-14-2019, 09:57 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: We know that when the Boomers were kids, most mothers stayed housewifes to care for their kids. As a result, most Boomers had a way closer relationship to their mothers than to their fathers.
At the end, this hurt the [G.I.] fathers: The Boomer kids saw their mothers doing housework (and these mothers were the last generation of housewives who didn't have vacuum cleaners, washing machines etc. At least not all the time.). But the Boomers never saw their fathers at work.
This must have contributed to the Boomers rebelling against their fathers, and supporting feminism.
Despite the fact that many male feminists were crooks of the worst kind. Like Sol Wachtler who helped making rape during marriage a crime (until then, wives had the duty to agree with sex), and later harassed a woman himself. Fucking hypocrite.
To be totally honest, most Boomer kids rarely hung with their mothers either. We tended to be feral children: sent out to play until dinner time.
My point stays: They saw their mothers doing housework more often than their fathers doing their day job.
True enough, though equally true of most prior generations too.
My point is: All other generations that followed (X, Millies, HLers) were not like that, not anymore. They all are more likely to have mothers who went to work - and like the Boomers with their hard-working dads, they don't see how their mothers are working. There's a generational watershed behind the Boomers.
-- whenever l start buying into that fallacy about women not working until the 1070s l tell myself Mare, your Grandmother ran a jewelry store (& she ran it during the Depression & supported 8 kids off the income from that store, but that's another story) Those post WW2 years when most Gl & Silent women didn't have to work were an anamoly.B4 & after many women worked. In factories, restaurants, hospitals- most nurses were women. Same with schoolteachers & clerical workers. Maybe upper class women did not have to work, but working class women.... well there's a reason it's called the working class
my 2 yr old Niece/yr old Nephew 2020
