Jell-O pics or it didn’t happen.
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That was my first thought! “Good thing she’s married, so she has someone to sign off on her lines of credit and open her bank account!”
This shit is not very long gone (and on its way back if some people have their way.) I’m in my forties, and when my mom was in college and shortly after, she couldn’t even sign an apartment lease without a male relative co-signing. I get liking the fashion, but saying someone lives their life like they’re in that time period is just silly.
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Only a straight white cis person would do this.
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Don’t worry, it’s a whites-only counter.
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Yeah, legally the change didn’t happen until the '70s (which means it didn’t necessarily end there…). Someone told me about trying to get a tubal ligation in the (mid) '70s, with her doctor refusing to do it without her husband’s permission… though I wouldn’t be surprised if there still were doctors like that.
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This is the cutesy side of MAGA horseshit.
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I wondered what the reaction would be if they tried to pay for their gas at 1950s prices…
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I certainly agree with folks here. I get nostaligia, and I get loving vintage clothing and bric a brac. I feel the same way about some of that stuff. I love old cars and trucks, and would absolutely love to have an old pickup like @Melizmatic mentioned.
But “living like it’s the 1950’s” is where this cosplay goes off the rails. It’s NOT the 1950’s, you CAN’T live like that again, and if you did, there are huge reasons why that’s problematic. Racism/segregation being the worst part of it, but then there’s the sexism of the era (some couples intentionally live a sexual life based on 1950’s tropes of male dominated culture), the pollution, etc.
She’s doing something she thinks is cute and fun. I get that. But she’s also selling a fantasy about how nice and wonderful everything was about a time period when things were not wonderful or nice for a hell of a lot of folks. And that’s just wrong. If she were selling this as “I just like old clothes and old stuff” I think most of us would pass by it without much thought. It’s the lie about what the 1950’s really represents (or her absolute naivety on the topic) that irritates me.
EDIT: and oh yes, she’s absolutely not living like the 1950’s because she’s on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and other feeds. This is literally her influencer image.
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April – Unemployment in Detroit reaches 20%, marking the height of the Recession of 1958 in the United States.
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Neither in Italy, for that matter.
This is was Rome in the 50s. They were Italian homeless, most of them had the house bombed and lost all.
I suppose that living in East and West Germany in the 50s wasn’t really an easy time.
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My standard remark when complaining about the cheap build of modern appliances is “Used to be you could bash a man’s head in with a telephone or typewriter. “
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned these assholes yet:
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Well, that post was five years ago, in the Before Times. None of us can remember it (but good on you for finding it and bringing it back, clearly I’d forgotten about them).
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Oh shout-out for my town! We’re pretty pragmatic about it, honestly.
So a brief glance at her Instagram page shows she’s pretty fast and loose about this whole dream; she wears a 50s style dress with Care Bear print on it. 
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Desi owned a home on the 17th hole of the golf course Thunderbird Coutry Club, but wasn’t allowed membership because he was Cuban (they prohibited membership to minorities and Jews). So he built his own nearby (Indian Wells Resort Hotel) and let minorities and Jews join.
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This is “movie set decorator” levels of bric-a-brac, IMHO.
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Nostalgia works wearing rose-tinted glasses filtering away the bad things that were happening in that times, especially if people weren’t born in these years.
I’m totally on preserving and using old stuff, and I’d absolutely like fascist houses, fort their late art deco and rationalist design, especially compared to the '60s buildings.
This doesn’t mean that I like Mussolini, racial laws and WWII.
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OR have a vintage cable television network, like in this museum, where old TV sets could tune to channels on the cable TV that on some channels has live digital TV, or a DVD with old programmes recorded.
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kinda afraid to ask when this is outlawed because
