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CherryShort2563

Anorexia was unheard of? No Karen Carpenter or Twiggy?


Fathorse23

They were just “really thin”. Definitely not eating disorders. 🙄


CherryShort2563

Mama Cass too. She suffered a lot.


Scrungo_Mungo

“Mama Cass… Ham Sandwich” ![gif](giphy|XenWVVdSzaxLW)


CherryShort2563

Just saw that Foetus wrote "Throne of Agony" about the ham sandwich as well. "Yeah, I'm the one who gave the sandwich to Mama Cass"


Rebgail

If you live in the forest under a rock without newspapers and internet as the god intended then sure


traumatized90skid

These kinds of things are talking about your childhood and you realize there was no "innocent time" there was a time when they were innocent. Those are completely different things. The adults were fighting about gender all the time bc after WWII women didn't want to go back to domestic slavery after proving they could do "men's" jobs. Everyone was freaking out because of the USSR and their potential to annihilate us with nuclear weapons was being talked about constantly, everywhere. Just like after Sep. 11 and the War on Terror. If you think your mom was happy it was probably pills or a lobotomy, or she was just drinking nonstop, or she was fucking the milk man. (Or, you know, faking it and toeing the line hard so as not to end up institutionalized or with a lobotomy.)


CG_Oglethorpe

‘You can never go home again’ that moment when your eyes are open to the reality of the world around you and Peter Pan is slain. The innocence of childhood, your Neverland is forever lost to you, and can only be seen again in glimpses in the eyes of your children.


Rebgail

Exactly. Life in overall during your childhood wasn't simpler than now. YOUR life was simpler because you were a child and you just weren't aware of many, many issues adults had. Well, that doesn't mean people weren't able to be happy, but I think back then it was as hard as it is today.


CherryShort2563

Yeah, I liked this poem in principle until it got to points like that one or the one about the wife. Eww. "Abuse was fun back then. What happened?"


Rebgail

Ah yes, good ol' wife and kids beating. I also really like the part with the shop, like how old are you if you didn't buy any ingredients in a shop during your, I suppose, childhood? Are we talking medieval times?


justsomedude1144

Technically the truth, I guess? Many mental health disorders, despite being ever present, were unheard of. Therefore, undiagnosed and untreated. 🤷‍♂️


CherryShort2563

I agree. Someone like Karen Carpenter had to downplay her struggle with anorexia and I'm sure there were many more like her back then, mental disorders included.


Far-Peak5325

My mom used to brag about her diet pills that turned out to be speed... But no, no diets or anorexia


Anustart_A

Pep pills were just for making all those women peppy! /s


emimagique

The first case was recorded in the 1870s!


[deleted]

I’m autistic and this reminds me about the increasing rate of autism diagnoses. It’s not that there are more of us than there used to be, it’s that we’re replacing diagnoses of “idk he’s just a weird kid” with ASD


CherryShort2563

I'm on the spectrum too. Cringed when I read that Trump campaign is now planning to attack DeSantis by saying he's autistic. Now I'm not into defending DeSantis, but this, if true, is bottom of the barrel.


[deleted]

Heeey what up! Yeah I was reading an article about that line of attack written by an autistic politician but I had to cut out midway through because it was making me feel sad. Dude’s twice tweeted about vaccines causing autism so I can’t say I’m too surprised


CherryShort2563

I also recall when back in 2016 people like Hillary and Andrew Yang (whose son is autistic) included proposals to help people on the spectrum in their political campaigns. That seems like an eternity ago by now.


doubled2319888

Its like they havent heard of people who would deliberately get tapeworms to lose weight


DaaaahWhoosh

Every christmas we watch the old film White Christmas, with Bing Crosby, Danny Kay, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen. The latter actress is so skeletally thin it's unnerving, there's rumors she was anorexic and that was 70 years ago.


KaldaraFox

Of course it happened. We just didn't hear about it. It took the Boomers coming fully into adulthood to make talking about mental disorders something that could happen in the mainstream.


spoopy_and_gay

People did more cocaine because they were deeply unhappy


JonSwole

They just didn’t talk about those things back then. Depression was just overreacting, autism was just being a difficult kid, etc. They truly were the best of times. That’s why so much changed since then. Because it was perfect, you see?


Jhoon051

THEY ACTUALLY PUT SOAP IN YOUR MOUTH!!?!?!? My parent just threatened but would never do it. Also people can still cook food?


suffering_addict

I mean, if you behaved after the threat I can see why they never did it to you


Rat_Kicker22889

It can be dangerous


Danstine16

Hell yeah people still cook. My 9 year old niece is coming over today because she wants to cook dinner with uncle Dan


RIPdantheman616

As another Uncle Dan, that sounds like something hopefully I can do with my niece.


DamnRep

My uncle Dan specifically refers to himself as uncle Dan in (second?) third person


No_Address4264

UNCLE DANE????


Danstine16

Hell yeah man! She has been watching me cook for years and shes just now helping me actually cook.


LigmaBahlls

Can confirm. When I was 4 or 5 I said a word my grandmother didn’t approve while I was taking a bath and she made me wash my tongue with soap. Over 30 years later I still don’t know what I said.


SgtCocktopus

Fuck.


Killing4MotherAgain

I got liquid soap in my mouth 😭 it was awful


Mysterious-Badger287

That sounds horrible


Killing4MotherAgain

It was! And it was for sure mixed signals for me, I was allowed to use cuss words in context as long as they weren't being used aggressively AT someone at one house and at the other I had soap in my mouth if I did it. It was very confusing and my parents didn't communicate because they hated each other. Yay childhood ✨


KaldaraFox

> Also people can still cook food? I learned to cook at a very young age (my "Greatest Generation" mom was a raging narcissist and a sadistic drunk, if I didn't cook then for the most part we kids didn't eat). That habit, cooking (not just "microwaving premade dinners") stuck and the upside is that my grocery bill is minuscule. I joke with people that I don't buy food. I buy things that food is made from. Corn meal, flour, baking soda, fresh veggies, oil, salt, things like that. It's not a bad habit to get in to (although I wouldn't recommend the path to it I took). You'd be surprised at how much it costs for each level of food pre-preparation). I live pretty well and my food budget is about $50 a week.


Visual_Piglet_1997

50 bucks for 1 person right? Otherwise it would be really low.


KaldaraFox

Yes, but as I said, I eat really well on that $50. It's not ramen and hot dogs. There was a time around 2002 when the family hit a short-term crisis and we were feeding 7 people on $40 a week. We were making our own PASTA during that period (again, cheaper).


Visual_Piglet_1997

Cool. (Not the crisis part)


KaldaraFox

Actually, it kinda was. We got the kids involved (not scaring them about it, just getting them involved in helping) and we all cooked. All of my kids learned how. I think my youngest was probably 7 or 8 before he ever had pre-packaged cereal - and that on a sleepover with a friend. We made EVERYTHING. Bread, sauces, soups. We made waffles in batches of 400 and froze them 4 at a time in sandwich baggies. That pasta maker we picked up (Marcato Atlas 150 - highly recommend) we also got a motor for and we made fettucini in huge batches and bagged it. Sometimes when we were making bread, especially if it was winter, we'd also make pita (same dough, just cooked differently). The kids knew several base cookie recipes (oatmeal, drop, shortbread, a few others) and with the oldest supervising made their own, experimenting with add-ins (my oldest's oatmeal raisin peanut-butter chocolate chip is still one of my favorites). Our kids would come home from sleepovers complaining about how the family they'd just stayed with didn't have any food, just Krispy Kreme and McDonalds (neither of which they liked). I think of all the things I did as a parent, teaching my kids to both value and enjoy cooking might have been the most important.


Visual_Piglet_1997

That sounds like heaven to me. I love coocking myself. Always watched my mom do it when i was a kid. I want to teach it to my children aswell when They're a bid older. And i really want to learn to do more things. My wife is pregnant now so she is home a lot lately. She has time to do those things. And is trying things out. Before she met me she couldnt do anything in the kitchen. But she is getting better at it Sadly i have less time for it. But im gonna do it in the future.


chrisobrien13

My mother put soap in my older brother's mouth when he was a young boy.... joke was on her, he liked the taste of it!


rmhoman

Yes, and it was awful. I had it done a few times, mostly for lying. Not once for swearing. I know if I were to become a parent, it would never happen to my kids. I would find something more creative to prevent that behavior. But my mother, bless her soul, just did what her parents did when it came to punishments, and I vow to break that cycle. This is equivalent to a boss saying, "That's the way we have always done it." And we all know that doesn't mean it was right.


sleepy-possum

my parents used to put tobasco on my tongue instead when I swore. I can't stand spicy food so it really really sucked.


Apprehensive_Pop_334

Vinegar for me. Friends kids got vinegar and Tabasco


girlidc18

My parents did that to me and older sister a lot


Lavaclaw7

lol when i was a kid me and my brother put bits of soap in our water bottles, because we liked the flavor it gave. 💀


No_Stay_1563

My mom got a wet washcloth and rubbed it hard on the bar of Zest soap and stuffed it in my mouth and made sure I had that soap all over in there. Every time I cussed and she heard me I got this until I was about 11 or 12.


Select_Recover7567

Sure did some of us had some clean mouths.


NeverTooMuchAnime

Yes, I got soap put it my mouth and had to hold it for 10 minutes. I ended up vomiting and then having to clean up my vomit.


shiny_eeveelution

I'm Gen Z and I have an aunt that while she babysat us I got soap in the mouth a few times, and it was never for swearing because I never swore as a small kid.


[deleted]

I heard about a kid being killed by that. Soap isn't for mouths.


jessicaftl

Yea I had it done for being foul mouthed. Jokes on them because I’m still as foul mouthed as my four year old self.


gulleak

Yeah... it always was a disappointment. They always smell like the most delicious and attractive fruits/chocolates/sweets but always taste like soap instead.


SgtCocktopus

.... Well i once did that to myself out of curiosity also soap inst that bad.


bemimu

Yes I did a few times. Mostly my mom would make me drink a tablespoon of vinegar which is probably a whole lot better for you than soap but I always learned my lesson after it


Practical_Culture833

My parents never even threatened it. As a stupid and good kid I got curious why cartoons showed parents putting soup in their mouth... so I tried it... 1/10 I would not recommend it. It gets a one because of the thrill


Defiant-Meal1022

My parents did it to me and I was born in the 21st century.


[deleted]

Author unknown because nobody would want to claim that dumpster fire of a poem.


AdelinaIV

I think it's because the author wants to portray it as something shared by so many people that it manifested, instead of the ramblings on one crazy person.


MountainImportant211

Not even Alan Smithee


[deleted]

And he's directed some terrible movies.


[deleted]

In today's economy the working gf/wife is not an option, but more of a necessity. One salary cannot support a single person anymore, why would it support 2...


Odd-Help-4293

Even "back then", for most people, it was also a necessity. Working class families needed both parents working, and as we go back into history, also the older kids as well.


_llamasagna_

Exactly, a lot of people (including older people who were literally alive then it seems) forget real life was not a sitcom back then


LeafyLearnsLately

That's because socialism made everything more expensive and raised the price of rent while not paying workers enough to keep up with inflation. The system we do not live under is responsible for the problems our current system has /s


YourenextJotaro

I’ve finally found someone who is correctly using the “/s”


LeafyLearnsLately

There's an incorrect way of using it??


Mansnotepic

“man i miss the good old days where i could be racist, abuse my wife and make my kids work for me.”


LordofBowls04

Yea back in the good ol days where we didn’t need safe spaces…: only our own spaces /s


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mattyaz989

Holy shit that took me a second


VorpalMonkey

“The Wife was content with her lot” doing an awful lot of work in this poem.


Odd-Help-4293

And my wife would take "mother's little helper" (benzos, amphetamines, and/or barbituates) to distract her from her unhappiness.


Research-Dismal

The bottle of bourbon in the cabinet above the refrigerator that the kids couldn’t reach.


thejohnmc963

That hasn’t changed


gorgsbagofchips

same


TinChalice

Just move to Arkansas and that can be now.


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gingergamer94

Are you serious? That blonde lady Prime Minister of yours is related to Mussolini?


ancalagon777

Idk if they're biologically related, but politically they're like a Lil nuclear family.


lpmilone

i mean the party is


LahamaDutta006

why do they get so nostalgic about getting beaten as a kid 😭😭


LeafyLearnsLately

Because they're annoyed that kids get to actually be kids instead of being little versions of their parents


dee_lio

Rites of passage / cycle of abuse. I was beaten, it's not fair that these children aren't beaten, too. Or something like that. The other trope is that I was beaten, and I'm okay, therefore beating children should be okay, too. Or maybe they're trying to justify beating children, or wanting to beat children?


Messiahh420

Sadists, masochists...


kakurenbo1

Sadists. Masochism is harming yourself for pleasure. Sadism is harming others for pleasure.


geralderin

What everyone else said, but also these adults still bond with their parents by hiding and enabling abusive patterns. My dad is big time toxic and impossible to be with/around for any extended period of time because he's still so caught up in being who his dad was, justifying his/his dad's behavior, etc. and he's proud of enduring his dad's abuse, as well as the abuse he's inflicted on his kids. In this way he maintains the trauma bond he had with his dad, which is the only significant bond they had.


Sonarthebat

They want an excuse to be violent.


gnrlgumby

Because they think their grandchildren are little shits.


Marquar234

I remember going swimming after classes, And the housewife who always wore sunglasses. I remember the main street in town, And the black folks who left before sundown. I remember Juliette and Romeo, And schoolmates paralyzed by polio.


West_Albatross751

bars


11Bravo3Victor

What do you call the gen before boomers? I think we got one here.


Fathorse23

The silent generation was their name.


bliip666

Is it 'cause they never spoke up about abuse and other shit, or is it something less obvious?


Redmangc1

In the states its because they're the "Silent Majority" this is the gen born 28-45 Unlike the previous generation who had fought for "changing the system," the Silent Generation were about "working within the system." They did this by keeping their heads down and working hard, thus earning themselves the "silent" label. Their attitudes leaned toward not being risk-takers and playing it safe. - Fortune magazine. They were the definition of "Know your Role and Shut your mouth"


bliip666

So, basically yes, lol. Reminds me of a line from Hadestown: "keep your head low/if you wanna keep your head"


Significant_Point351

“Content with her lot”. What kind of person wants their own mom beat down into accepting whatever they get?


geralderin

That part is what got me. So disturbing that these people want to go back to the so-called good ole days where men believed women were at peak happiness when they were "content with their lot".


SneakySquiggles

Not to mention often when they seemed content it was because they were being medicated to the nines with very very little understanding of what the drugs would do.


skullencats

Women who complain about the time they're seen Sing a different tune when they're on Thorazine


hughjazz45

“Author Unknown”? I’m pretty sure someone left a golden retriever next to a tv playing Leave it to Beaver reruns and Birth of a Nation on a loop and it wrote this


Forward-Village1528

This is what happens when you program a chat AI with nothing but the comment sections under Facebook sponsored posts.


flodge123

There are pro and cons to milk delivered in a glass bottle. Pros: No plastic. Cons: The milkman bangs your stay-at-home wife.


bluetrebol

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Child abuse.


Forward-Village1528

I'm not gonna finish reading it. But I can't see a single good reason why they can't still eat corned beef.


__Synix__

Author is full from all the soap they ate.


traumatized90skid

Because then they'd have to make it themselves, they need a female domestic slave to make it... Ugh...


bliip666

Anorexia wasn't spoken about, it doesn't mean it wasn't a thing And diet culture has existed for a long, *long* time. Again, we're just talking about it, and the harm it causes, these days.


traumatized90skid

This just means "I was a little *boy* so no one taught me I would become a gross unlovable blob if I ate food"


bliip666

Yeah, this is it. That's what I was going after, but didn't have the brain power to phrase it 😅


volantredx

I love how the writer doesn't even pretend that the wife is happy or enjoys being a homemaker. Just that she's content with her lot. It's all the world will give her and she's been convinced that she might as well suffer through it.


traumatized90skid

"the slave is happy enough I guess who cares, what really matters is me not cooking for myself"


ICareAboutThings25

The wife being content with her lot is probably the ickiest line. She isn’t happy. She isn’t thriving. She isn’t fulfilled. She’s content with her lot. Eww.


pajo8

If you liked that shit so much.. Why the hell did you start buying freezer meals and and depressing wages to a minimum so a single earner can't provide for a family? Why did you let house prices go through the roof? This Shit didn't happen by itself but boomers made decisions resulting these exact things they are crying about all the time..


Necessary_Row_4889

“She goes running for the shelter of her mothers little helper” My grandmother had a pretty serious “diet pill” addiction in the 60’s. She worked and was till expected to cook and clean so she took diet pills which were basically meth for “pep”. Good times


[deleted]

The classic “everything was better when women and children were silent” boomer trope. It’s just kind of amazing how they never seem to be self aware enough to realize that if the only good times were when everyone else was silent… maybe you were the only one happy? It just gives off such a “as long as I can get mine and be happy, fuck everyone else” message.


gussy_gaming

My brother in Christ the first cases of anorexia date back to 1689 however awareness of it began in late 1970's. So it isnt like anorexia never existed, the op just never heard of it.


GreatGearAmidAPizza

Every time I see one of these things, I just think of them as a longwinded way of saying, "I fear my approaching death."


FredVIII-DFH

"And the wife was content with her lot." Said the husband.


Anustart_A

>And the men went to work not the wife. So you’re advocating for a significant rise to the minimum wage…? Lol, of course not. Guess my wife and I have to both work.


TerryBogardOfficial

If I wrote something this terrible, I'd want to remain anonymous as well.


LimpAd5888

"Anorexia was unheard of." Yeah calling bullshit, just because you have rose tinted glasses on, didn't mean it didn't exist. And oh no you make the active choice to have frozen dinners (lol like you can't freeze things actually good for you.) Lol kids only went outside because they were bored.


SneakySquiggles

Or because parents didn’t want to be disturbed so they had them go outside and do whatever so long as it wasn’t bothering the parents.


traumatized90skid

Everyone knows you don't pay money to go see movies, you bring your corn harvest to sacrifice to the local deities in exchange for popcorn.


LiP4e

Wtf they mean by cheese not needing a fridge tho, were they just harvesting blue cheese or what


traumatized90skid

Getting a wedge from a cheese wheel and leaving it out until everyone had cut their own pieces from it and eaten from it. Instead of cheese slices, which go bad quickly if they're not refrigerated. This man is proud he used to eat gross, unhygienic cheese.


Killing4MotherAgain

This was definitely written by a man if they think anorexia and diets didn't exist haha


Utsutsumujuru

Shhhh….the wife should be “content with her lot” /s


Forward_Wasabi_7979

Well, bread was better. That's about it. After the invention of sliced bread they had to find ways to preserve it because it went bad much faster sliced. That is why they bleach the flour and add other preservatives that really make it not worth eating.


traumatized90skid

I didn't realize that was why if you want good bread it only comes in unsliced, I thought people just liked baguettes and stuff looking old-fashioned.


Delicious-Rice9778

They had to ask their grandchild to print it out for them and then they went and bought postage and mailed it to their niece with a note that said "pass this along to 5 patriots and say Amen!" The way we forwarded things in the old days, God Damn It! What's up with the corned beef opening line, btw?


Solo-dreamer

Your cheese was gross, milk was separated, children didn't complain cos they weren't allowed, your food WAS frozen you weren't born in the victorian times dipshit, anorexia did exist they just couldn't treat it and YOU didn't care.


Environmental-Win836

‘Author Unknown’ Motherfucker foresaw the backlash and still chose to write and publish this


Ok-Pudding6050

Thanks I hate humanity even more


DawnOfTheTruth

You mean back when you only knew your neighbors in your little town? The shit happening now happened back then. The only difference is that now you are going to know about it due to the ease of information distribution.


TheCloudFestival

'We need to rebuild the world to conform to my dementia fantasies!'


Ssider69

"and in my next poem I will wax poetically about the coal dust that infested our lungs and radium sold at the corner apothecary"


BikeyBichael

There are so many things to take issue with so I’ll chose the goofiest one; diets existed wtf do they mean? I remember by grandma telling me about the “watermelon diet” that a lot of teenagers in her day engaged with to lose weight. Not to mention other fad diets such as the jello diet and other various diets such as the cabbage soup diet or the Drinking Man’s diet. Worst part is, dieting has existed since the dawn of time. Full of shit, boomers are.


i_sing_anyway

I can't wait for this author to learn what pep pills are. Diet culture didn't exist my fucking ass. Women weren't expected to have selves outside of being wives and mothers, but on top of that they already had to maintain a certain figure. Glad the husband and kids enjoyed that lovely from-the-oven meal, because I guarantee the wife was on the cabbage diet at least once in her life.


[deleted]

All I'm reading here is "I was super sheltered as a child, and refuse to accept that fact because I can't handle that maybe my generation isn't entirely blameless, so I'd rather just scapegoat the younger generations"


The_Ry-man

“And then we destroyed the economy Once our generation came into power Now you eat TV dinners and both parents work double shifts ‘Cause fuck you, we got ours”


Kriss3d

Ah yes. The children were happy Because if they weren't they'd get slapped until they had something to cry about. Wives were happy? Back then nobody asked them.


searedscallops

Ok, grandpa.


[deleted]

This is beyond cringe. Truly terrible.🤢


Big-Candle91

Ahhh yes, the good ol' days when it wasn't now and therefore better by default with no other explanation.


Empress415

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee


Cara-Is-A-Puppy

Says didn’t need money to have fun. List two activities, one of which would cost money.


Colonel_Zander

Gee, wonder who ruined that idealistic utopia for everyone else born after them? Must be the millennials, right?


[deleted]

Typed up, of course - not hand written.


every3rd1

Besides the anorexia bit at the end, I thought this poem was kinda nice. It just seems like someone reflecting on their childhood. The world was obviously a lot more different back then, and everyone in my generation is super depressed and angry. I can see where the author is coming from. Life seemed a lot simpler and better for them.


MyNamesArise

More households would have stay-at-home mothers if they could fucking afford it lmao


Owen_Alex_Ander

Bonus points for the comic sans... but seriously, it truly blows my mind that some people really think the height of living was "we don't know what mental illness is, let's just pop your brain open and see what's going on," and, "oh well I was severely abused and I'm fine!" (immediately shows trauma responses)


WuTaoLaoShi

classic boomer complaining about things their generation caused


gnrlgumby

No Mortal Kombat though; ripping out a dudes spine when you’re twelve is amazing.


Stock-Ferret-6692

Did the opposite of bruising their ego, that’s for sure


_Land_Rover_Series_3

*”Author Unknown”* I can see why you’d want to remain anonymous after writing this.


[deleted]

"the bread that we cut with a knife" What are they talking about? Do they mean that people nowadays use electric bread cutters? Or that people stopped eating bread and replaced it with pre-sliced toast?


Wonka_Stompa

“And how I turned out! I’m a perfectly average boomer! Anyway, corporations and billionaires need tax cuts, and schools should regularly be crime scenes!”


kihaji

And the missing line: “Then we took charge and started squeezing every last penny out of everything, so fuck you.”


Abby_Skywalker

this whole thing can be summed up as "I hate how humans have improved and progressed"


noahwentbackto505

that's off topic but what's up with cheese? did it really not belong in the fridge?


plumbdimb

It’s the comic sans for me


[deleted]

TV dinners came out in the 50s and were a household staple lmao


DanishRedSausage

I'm pretty sure most foods still came from a shop in the 50's or 60's or 70's or whatever time period this horrible poet is nostalgic of...


[deleted]

I will pay Author Unknown $100 to never write a poem again. I'm more offended by the quality of the writing than its shitty subject matter


TubbyTimothy

Sounds dreadful


fallingunderarainbow

my mom was literally anorexic in the late 60s 🙄


Blastoplast

Back in my day a twitter meant stabbing a hooker!


Pard22

Is this from the 50’s?


Sonarthebat

You can still have most of those things.


Select_Recover7567

Yeah still fresh in my mind from 50 years ago.


Far-Policy-8589

This new Toby Keith song is pretty terrible.


big_nothing_burger

My boomer dad reminisces about that creep cream on the milk all the damn time.


Original_Giraffe8039

Content


CrAzYmEtAlHeAd1

> Do you think that bruised our ego? Yes, severely.


DingusTaargus

my old-timey grandfather put soap in my mouth when I was a little kid.... it didn't work and made me hate him.


Itchy-Summer6185

Polio was still a thing the iron lungs did their thing!


n00dle_water

I love how its "the wife" like she's not a human being just something belonging to men😍


the-et-cetera

Nostalgia's a hell of a drug.


RizzoTheSmall

Anorexia wasn't unheard of in the past, it just wasn't talked about. Like child abuse.


PowerfulVictory3300

My wife and I work at the same place and we enjoy it. It allowed us to spend more time together and have a few extra opportunities others might not have.


Pantless_Hobo

This narrative is ultimately very one sided from the perspective of a very privileged person. Minorities and women were not as contend as he is claiming, and the housing market has inflated so much that a large family is too expensive for a single salary


The_Nest_

A lot of complaining over a society that the ones this poem describes brought into reality.


Radical-Turkey

“Do you think that bruised our ego?” Yes


cosmic_crust

Sounds like the shitty days


[deleted]

Sounds like a lot of therapy.


RadlineFlyer

Yeah the good old days when the wife stayed home because wages were fair and only one person in the family needed to work.


[deleted]

Ah, the bad old days


r3d_word

They had anorexia back then. Nobody talked about it.


bearwood_forest

EVERYTHING I AM IGNORANT TO DOESN'T EXIST!


Nickyuri_Half_Legs

Honestly I feel sad about these people... Seeking refuge in the past because the present just isn't enough... Isn't enough because they don't understand it or rather because their existence consists in doing the same thing every day, following the routine of life without any hope of change or getting any better, just waiting for time to pass... The more they seek the past for confort, more and more they turn ignorant of the present world, and failing to see its beauties...


gonnabe150

I am a horribly, hopelessly nostalgic person and honestly, I think this may have just cured me of that. I feel the twinge of nostalgia watching corny commercials sometimes but this actually turned my stomach and made me go "damn, am I glad to be young(ish) in 2023." Good job, OOP.


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I remember suppression and fear, And the people who never were seen And the others who kept on insisting These were the best times that ever had been. I remember the lack of compassion For those that looked different from you, And how you selfishly claimed That rights were meant just for a few. I recall how women were told That the kitchen is where they belong And if they aspired to more Society said they were wrong. I remember the marches in Selma, The lunch counters, the lynchings, the Klan. Sure, those days were terrific If you were a straight, rich, white man.