The Good Old Days Of...Sexism

Sometimes I hear people saying how �things were so much better in the past� and how they wish they could �turn back the clock and go back to the good old days�.

As for me, I say �no frickin� way!

Over my dead and decomposing body would I want to go back to the days of this...

...this...

... or this...

You�d have to drag me back kicking and screaming to a time when women were thought of as personal property; treated as nothing more than housekeepers, baby factories and servants to their husbands. A time when it was perfectly acceptable to bar women from many professions and pay them less than what a man was paid in any type of job (if they were even allowed to have that job, or any job). And to a time when it wasn�t unheard of for a man to routinely beat his wife to keep her in line. Many women slapped around in the �good old days� learned to live with it. Society did not begin to pay significant attention to domestic violence until the 1970s.

I�d rather get stung by a swarm of wasps than go back to a time when women were considered exasperatingly stupid and incompetent, and portrayed that way. Like in the vintage ads in this video:



Oh sure, the �good old� days were not such a bad time for men who were waited on, looked up to and obeyed. But for women? Gawd... They weren't exactly magical times.

Like anyone around my age or older, I like to take an occasional detour down nostalgia lane and reminisce about some good times I had with family and friends. But not in a million years would I give up how far we've come along and turn back the clock to live in the 'good old days'. Correction... Not in a billion years.

Wishing you all a beautiful weekend!