From usatodayopinion: 'Nostalgia relies on fuzzy recollections. Perhaps a brief stroll through the Before Times of the 1950s will sharpen our memories.'
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Today, I am your resident, non-historian expert on the 1950s, and here’s why: The Public Religion Research Institute recently released ain which 70% of Republicans said our culture and way of life have changed for the worse since the 1950s. This was a steep increase from the 54% who felt this way in 2020, when Donald Trump was president.
Nostalgia relies on fuzzy recollections. Perhaps a brief stroll through the Before Times of the 1950s will sharpen our memories.Before the birth control pill became widely available, in the 1960s, married women had no reliable contraception within their reach. Sure, they could say “no” to their husbands, but denying sex to the breadwinner of the house was culturally excoriated as evidence of The Bad Wife. put it, “young wives faced three decades of childbearing before they reached menopause.
By the way, the word gay meant you were merry until the late '60s and '70s, when it began to mean one was a homosexual. This linguistic evolution prompted many straight Americans to accuse gay people of stealingTelevision: Black and white and basic
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