Aibu to think

[Anneofgreengableslondon]

That I would love to have been born in the 1950s?
Seriously no Facebook which is such a negative thing no social media at all things seemed to be so much simpler and less drama etc.
I watch call the midwife and I wish I was child bearing back then 😂

No financial autonomy, very little chance of going to university or indeed staying on at school past 16, not allowed credit or a loan, married women who worked were considered abnormal because it was a woman's job to look after her man and every woman who worked was thought to be taking a job away from a man, you had to have your husband's permission for everything from medical procedures to signing a hire agreement, no nights out with 'the girls' once you were married and many pubs were men only anyway, husband had rights over your body, no women's refuges, very few women had bank accounts, if your husband wasn't a good husband it was a case of put up or shut up as divorce was something to be ashamed of. It goes on and on. I'd have hated to live then.

YAB unbelievably U, obviously, firstly because you are basing your views of the 1950s on a tv show . Secondly because social media is not compulsory.

Out of interest, what are all these other negatives of modern life which you claim trump the negatives of life in the 1950s? The 'parents could be parents' one is clearly nonsense tbh. People have much more choice about that now than they did then!

Oh wow! Nothing on this earth could send me backwards in time. No way. You’re ideas of the past are incredibly naive OP.

I had my first baby at home, just like my gran did in the 1950s. She couldnt believe i wanted to! She Thought i was being ridiculous.

Id have died in childbirth with my second. Just like women die in child birth haemorrhaging in countries with poor health care today.

Abusive men beating their wives and nobody thinking that was unaceptable. No choice for those women but to live with it.

Unmarried mothers having their babies taken from them and put up for adoption.

Being aent tomwork in a factory at 15, like my mum and her sisters were. That was also the 50s.

SEN children being sent for a nap, ignored, punished, if they couldnt do something in class.

Shopping every day for food due to no fridge and freezer.

A whole day to do the washing.

The only money a married woman had was family allowance.

Surely it wold be much easier to switch off social media than to go back to an era where youd have NO RIGHTS?!

No Contraception.

Not even the pretence of equal pay for equal work.

Your husband could rape you and not only would no one give a shit,it wasn't even a crime.

Yeah sorry I’m not down with racism, no real contraception, domestic violence being swept under the rug or good old fashioned martial rape!
But yeah, the dresses and music were fun I guess...

Read the book OP and see if that changes your mind!

I don't think the op will be back!!

I was not alive in the 50s so I really shouldn't comment. However you reminded me how my sociology lecturer at university use to always say people remember the 50/60s through rose tinted glasses. Also people could just cover up things better due to lack of social media. It's not that they didn't happen.