Posted on 09/22/2025 3:59:37 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
“and reflecting on what has replaced it.”
I guess the point of it all really went over your head?
It’s an observation on the loss of “3rd Spaces”.
Well noted on this and other forums over the past past few decades.
I love my Go Pro 13.
I was there. We had businesses that refused a raise to women in the company (iIwas told this by them) because they didn’t “need” the money the way men did.
One of my friends was refused entry to veterinary schools (despite being one of the top SAT scorers as a math major) . She threatened to sue and one of the schools suddenly changed her admittance status. One university vice president walked into freshman orientation and said the women were there to find
husbands ( I was in attendence).
This was in the 1960’s. By the 70’s it was gone.
You mean you haven’t seen the great documentary about the development of the flying car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Each family member is buried into his own private internet world.
“SAT scorers as a math major”
SAT are not used for any medical school.
Too real. When I visited someone in Richmond, they had to tell me places to avoid in case AntiFa broke out. They would also block streets with bicycles.
No more stay-at-home moms.
Growing up in Orlando without air conditioning in the 50s and 60s before Disney, my mother had a range of cheap summertime strategies for keeping four kids happy: going to the public library; to a local mall; swimming at a friend’s house on a lake; visiting an odd hotel that had a garden with a small zoo; riding on a narrow gauge local railroad; and best of all, lunch at McDonald’s or Icees at the 7-11 “if we were good” while she carried out essential errands.
Whatever Happened to Just Going Out for Family Fun?
Once the left got it’s way with making weed legal it went doun hill fron there.
The stoner tribe (crazy cloud) grew and it got harder to find safe places for fun.
These para-autistic kids will one day rule the world.
Sobering thought.
You’re right . It’s a bad habit of mine. I used SAT for College Board because they administered the graduate school test that she used. At that time the tests were geared to pure performance without any bias toward demographic groups. Women math majors were relatively rare and extreme high scorers (97 percentile and above) were rare. Vet schools at that time were competing for the higher scoring students. This particular vet was a friend who was telling me her tale because she knew I had contacts at the College Board.
My wife and I, both in our 80s and married 63+ years still have a "picnic cookout" every month when the weather is good at a lake side pavilion.
I also cookout at home several time a week, but the 90 mile drive for our "picnic" gives it special meaning.
We are amazed at the small number of fellow "picnic'ers" at the lake we drive to visit.
A beautiful lake in the mountains, peaceful, quiet and with fishermen {using only electric motors or oars}, you could not find a more serene setting for a "picnic".
This is a family tradition from when we went in my dad's 1950 Ford pickup to the same place and cooked hot dogs on a stick over an open wood fire.
Can not get any better.
I don’t remember women ever being treated that way and I am 64. Feminists made “claims” that this was the case but it was lies then as well as now.
The only ones denigrating stay-at-home moms are the feminists. They were the ones claiming a woman couldn’t be free or important unless she went to work as got a career.
Now both parents work and pay 2/3 of one of their salaries to strangers to raise their kids till they go to school, and then they treat school as a free babysitter instead of a place to educate their kids.
Everything costs so much more for what you get. Concerts are $100 and then you pay another $50 to park.
Movies are $20, food at the theater is another $30 and then someone is playing with their phone or talking during the movie.
Bowling is over $10.00 a game. Feral blacks killed the malls, and going to the park can get you killed, and just try to get a pickup game of basketball without being elbowed in the face.
Women who scored well as men always got in just the same. The last period of time women were actually denied entry was the turn of the century 1900 England. In my early college lifetime, 1970’s, women were in college every much as any man. The ones that complained they didn’t get in had low SAT/GRE scores.
I knew one of the first computer science graduates from 1957 who was one of the first women in NASA. She said it was easier because she was a woman with great credentials. Other women did worse but wanted an easy pass and didn’t get it so they cried about sexism. That has been my experience my entire career.
I remember when being grounded to have to stay home was punishment. Now kids have to be forced to leave their rooms.
We played football in the front yard as kids. The driveways were the end zones. Only needed a football.
Basketball, one family had a goal over their garage. Several kids could play with only one ball.
Baseball in the back yards till we outgrew by hitting it over the fence and then went to the local park. You didn’t have to have 9 for each team. We played with what we had. One bat, one ball and 4-5 gloves which were shared by the other team.
I’m older than you and yes people used to downplay the importance of homemakers. It wasn’t usually overt but it was there. “Just a housewife” was one of the most common phrases of the time. As I said IMO this laid the groundwork for the power of the feminist movement. Something that I think will destroy the nation.
As you said people think that they have to have wives work and somebody else raise their kids. Parents teach their daughters to get a career before thinking of getting married.
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