Things I don't miss about old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell era Thanksgivings. [View all]
Women doing all the cooking and clean-up, except that one man's job was to carve the turkey.
Racist and sexist jokes around the dinner table.
Too much alcohol in general and someone actually drunk.
Cigarette smoke to inhale before and after dinner. Sometimes pipes and cigars.
Children who were supposed to be seen and not heard.
Gay people who were not supposed to be seen or heard.
No, I'm not pining for an old-fashioned Thanksgiving, now that I think about it.
ON EDIT:
Norman Rockwell knew the other side of Thanksgiving in that era -- he just chose not to paint it.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/11/norman-rockwell-200911
Maybe as I grew up and found that the world wasn’t the perfectly pleasant place I had thought it to be I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be and so painted only the ideal aspects of it—pictures in which there were no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers, in which, on the contrary, there were only Foxy Grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys [who] fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard.…
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