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frazzled

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2. Women in the 1950s

Reply to greatauntoftriplets (Original post)

Sat Oct 21, 2017, 11:00 AM

Oct 2017

I am the same age as General Kelly, and grew up in the 1950s like he did. We girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school: skirts and dresses only. Here's how I remember women (my mother's age) in the 1950s (though my mother did not buy into it much):

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Women were marginalized in the 1950s, not consecrated [View all] greatauntoftriplets Oct 2017 OP

The GOP lives in its own world of fantasy. Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #1

Women in the 1950s frazzled Oct 2017 #2

I grew up in the 50s and can testify that women were not held as sacred Stargazer99 Oct 2017 #3

Post WWII after Rosie the Riveter was forced back in the kitchens DK504 Oct 2017 #4