Thank you, I thought it was just me who felt this way!

A man’s home was his castle — which meant he was free to beat his wife and kids. Women who were raped “must have asked for it” because “boys will be boys.” The military “made a man out of you, manhood apparently being dependent on mindlessly following orders and killing whomever you’re told to kill. Those who dissented from the “official story” were pinkos and fags and fair game.

There was McCarthy. And lynchings and race riots. We ducked and covered to defend ourselves from the end of the world. There was a vicious little war against the Vietnamese — who’d never harmed us one bit — people who had modeled their declaration of independence after our own. They had censored Elvis’ hip-swinging, and now promised that the Beatles would be the end of civilization.

Cops could get away with anything — even murder. They knew how to get a confession back then, guilty or not. None of this sissy “Constitutional rights” nonsense. But it was mostly all right because they focused on blacks and the poor, people with no voice who didn’t matter anyway.

Ike warned us but we didn’t listen. And they murdered Medgar, and Jack and Martin and Bobby.

In short, the past was prologue, and the seeds of what we see now were planted deeply and well-fertilized, and I trust you know what with.

Your generation is the one that created what you dislike in society. Who else could have? Your generation are the parents of the current generation. And the current generation is over protected and controlled. Who could have done that except for those that raised them?

NEVER! Not even in the West.

When a family member took a little girl to visit others, the girls had to dress up, and sit in the parlor, keeping still, while the adults “visited,.” and the little girl wiggled around, she was scolded. Little girls could not run, or run in the open air. When an adult did carpentry work, and wanted to learn, the girl was scolded and told to leave.

And let me tell you, when groups of boys were together, playing marbles, or tops, or cards, they made it clear, they didn’t want a girl around.

Girls had to toe the line, and particularly, after menarche. Wen they aware MORE aware tht they were females. They couldn’t try cigarettes, or wander around the neighborhood after school, or run, or any of the things boys did. Girls had to dress up on the particular “holy” days of their religion, and go to temple or church. Girls had to were pristine white gloves and hats, and petticoats, for special occasions.

Girls had to watch their reputations, unlike boys. In the days you you speak about, in fact, it was the girls that had to watch out, for YOU , boys. And the nonsense of their telling, girls, “If you loved me, you’d let me.” And girls, had to watch out for being considered “loose” – and further, “getting in trouble” and having a pregnancy without married.

So, it’s not true that children were freer in older generations. The divisions between the genders were present in the “old days.”