To find this fb poem awful.

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Several friends are sharing this and I feel really uncomfortable with it. Any thoughts?

Cringeworthy. I was raised in the 70s and 80s. My dad mostly cooked as he was better at it and mom seved Vesta meals. I find cheese is tastier today as we seemed to only have bland cheddar. The woman was happy with her lot line was probably the most tragic line for me.
Liney I love your poem. Pillow your points cracked me up - clearly cheese was kept in a Queen Anne sideboard or in father's work boots that he used to beat mother into submission.

I tried to be offended but couldn't be. It's the sort of things that my Nan or maybe Mum would think was nostalgic. I don't think they'd read quite as much into it as everyone here.

On a side note, marital rape was legal up until the 90s or so in this country wasn't it?

Liney, loving your work.

OP why are they posting it? Surely only as a random historical piece of crazy? Otherwise I'm impressed people aged 100+ can be arsed to be on social media.

Duck, it's not even that anyone hands to read deeply into it. It is immediately a crock of shite.

The kids being content with their lot bit would strike me as true

Well maybe "the kids not expressing any discontent with their lot" would be better. and since the thing scans horribly anyway, why not

Kids were plenty discontent with being neglected, beaten, ignored, told they would never amount to much, put into boarding schools age 7, told education wasn't for the likes of them, etc. They just didn't express it much because what was the point. Same as some unfortunate kids today.

This poem reminds me a bit of my mother who would occasionally say "ah it is all so violent these days". She grew up during the second world war (never got the irony though when I pointed this out). She also remembers going into a house with a charitable group and seeing a daughter nursing a baby which was fathered by her grandfather. Still, my mother would have said the late 20th century was terrible the way sex was everywhere in the media. She was a good woman but like many took particular views and that was that. Nothing to do with reality-just like this doggerel.

if a mother at a school put that post on FB, I'd run for the hills from her.

People really do have rose tinted specs about the past

And people on FB are often dicks

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I'm not suggesting that it's well written.
I'm saying that to me, it is reminiscent of the stories of my parents childhoods. I don't think that everyone will read it and think of all the terrible awfulness of the older generations.

Shit 'poem' on many levels.

More to the point though - I don't get why you can't unfriend them? I would (and have) unfriended people for this kinda shit if they're people I'm not close to. If it's family I respond pointing out the issues.

Limey is brilliant!

I'd love being a fifties housewife
Then I'd know exactly my place
I'd dish up on time so that I would
In front of the neighbours keep face

I'd do chores while keeping my head down
I'd keep up the family pride
And you'd see me being a great wife
And not know Im dying inside.

Back in the old days before I dumped FB, I challenged anyone who posted crap like that.

Ha. I currently live in a very non mn world, low income, w/c, low achieving all the rest of it. If my long-term friends posted it yes I'd challenge but if I blocked /didn't socialise with people like this locally I'd have no friends...... It'd helpful to get a mn perspective that I'm not the loopy one sometimes. (oh and yes I'd love to move!)

My mother was born in the fifties
The new age of nostalgia, it seems
When a man had his tea on the table
And a woman let go of her dreams

What a load of shit. Tell her to read a book called "The Fifties Mystique" and then come back and lament the loss of the fifties housewife.

Women were happy with their lot....., is that because they were all pissed up on gin?

Love the alternative poetry :)

gin and valium.

and then we had a feminist revolution so clearly women were not that happy with their lot.

My grandmother (we were not close) used to hiss and spit viciously at those awful 'career women' taking the jobs of the hard working men and ruining their families. No mention of her own husband runining his own violence through beatings and incest though.

I was born in 1959 so missed the fifties. Still that poem is a massive pile of crap whatever age you are. My poor aunt's life was blighted by anorexia (and she was born in the 1920s!). Domestic violence has been with us forever.

Yes in some ways it was a calmer world but also a much less tolerant one (in the UK at least). Every generation has its own down side and plenty of inherited shit.

I'm not even sure what that poem is trying to say tbh. What a strange thing to post. Is this another way to bash working mothers? It could be a simple life 'hippie' thing but the smacking bit doesn't fit that really.

We had milk from a bottle and ate what we were given etc, but i don't feel a great wave of nostalgia for any of it!

Post lineys, do it, do it, do it!!!!

It's your job to educate them.

We still get milk in a bottle. And full fat still has cream on top

~misses point~

I wonder if people who like or repost it are reading it through properly. On first glance it looks like your typical "good old days" poem - when times were simpler, food was home-made and kids were less spoilt.
Oh, and don't forget that women knew their place in servitude, and made up illnesses like this anorexia lark weren't a thing!

If women were so content with their lot, where did feminism spring from - alien invasion?

You are overthinking it.
It's just random FB shit.

I would have half read it and scrolled on and minutes later wouldn't remember who posted it let alone start a thread about it wanting 'perspective' and the like.
Like others have said the person who posted that probably hasn'tt read it it themselves properly and just reposted it.