tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post8667366711798840789..comments2022-07-29T06:22:32.216+01:00Comments on Heresiarch's Dungeon: Cautionary advice to young ladies - and Internet usersHeresiarchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515376670031027455noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-77718166423833766342010-12-14T09:29:33.452+00:002010-12-14T09:29:33.452+00:00I have the actual magazine from my grandmother wit...I have the actual magazine from my grandmother with the "Good Wife's Guide" in it and can assure that it isn't a hoax but the real thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-58357434026993479062010-03-06T21:24:31.983+00:002010-03-06T21:24:31.983+00:00I was born in 1938. Based on these comments (save ...I was born in 1938. Based on these comments (save for alysha's on the rotary clothesline) I imagine you kids will be explaining to one another why it was impossible that I or my school mates ever existed; why we could or would never have used the language or had the thoughts we did; that kids never "really" had oreos & milk as snacks after school; that I "could not have" attended a one room country school with a potbellied black iron stove in the middle, double desks so the older kids could help the younger ones study, the 2nd grader drove the teacher to school in a Model A Ford (& once almost knocked the school building off its foundation by failing to brake properly), learned to read by gas & kerosene lantern light, or many other events which were actually commonplaces at the time. <br /><br />The greatest ignorance is the presumption that things have always been as they are today, and are likely to continue that way. The presumption that people who remember the truth about the past are liars or fantasists is a great prejudice; it takes geniuses like Schliemann (Troy) to prove how wrong the skeptics are and how accurate oral histories and traditions are. But the lesson is never learned, each new generation lapses into the same ignorance of and prejudice against the past again.<br /><br />I cannot produce copies of the magazines or books that are discussed here. I can say that many of the quarrels with the details are baseless, as exemplified by the astonishing belief that rotary clotheslines appeared only in the '70s.<br /><br />And I can say that the attitudes and beliefs communicated by the articles and books described in this post existed, and were written about and advocated in popular literature of my grandparent's, parent's and my own 1940's & 1950's lives. We did not dispose of "old books" or magazines so readily then - they were not cheap, and were valued. So I got my earliest sex education from "Home Economics", physiology, and "Eugenics" texts published from the '20's through the '40's. <br /><br />People who want to comment on the past should spend some time in the periodicals section of a library, reading periodicals from the periods they are commenting on, before doing so. Start with the 1880's and 1890's womens, householders, and farm magazines, intended for mass consumption. I believe you'll be much less skeptical about these items after exposure to real media from that period. And you might even find the sources of the documents.Jimhttp://www.jimpivonka.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-48593162376998400772010-03-06T04:24:12.185+00:002010-03-06T04:24:12.185+00:00The Hills Hoist Rotary clothesline was invented in...The Hills Hoist Rotary clothesline was invented in Australia in 1946, so while I am quite sure this is a hoax...the small moan of gratitude does it for me, the clothesline is not anachronistic.alyshahttp://www.alyshaellis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-22830274835962059822010-03-02T08:55:56.836+00:002010-03-02T08:55:56.836+00:00It probably is a hoax, but I don't think it...It probably is a hoax, but I don't think it's a dead cert. There was a vast range of thought, and there would certainly have been people that thought like that. In fact, there are certainly people nowadays who still think like that!<br /><br />But times haven't changed as much as we like to think - Do a google image search for:<br />adverts sexist women<br /><br />If you think the beliefs of yesteryear are truthfully represented by magazine articles and adverts then I would say things have barely changed at all. <br /><br /><br />http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FdpBYTH6CL8/SfxOTDw59RI/AAAAAAAAAxk/ob_B3Efgm9U/s1600-h/badadskenwood.jpgUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076005616903692048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-43387970441060424342010-02-25T18:32:46.684+00:002010-02-25T18:32:46.684+00:00Thanks very much for this.
I received it in an e...Thanks very much for this.<br /><br /> I received it in an email, cackled but was convinced it had to be a hoax, didn't manage to find it on Snopes. <br /><br />I do love the way people LONG to believe it's true. It's like what Blanche says in 'Streetcar Named Desire': "I don't tell what's true. I tell what OUGHT to be true."HelenBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312075696726676176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-75407226624669978692010-02-16T19:35:12.314+00:002010-02-16T19:35:12.314+00:00The font is the same in both the intro and the tex...The font is the same in both the intro and the text, and it looks like a modern font. Is it verdana? I think verdana has only been around since the 90s.Natalienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-54857103260460109292010-02-15T10:23:07.776+00:002010-02-15T10:23:07.776+00:00"This will enable you to have his morning cup..."This will enable you to have his morning cup of tea ready when he awakes."<br /><br />This is a dead give away. Anyone growing up in England in the sixties knows that the husband made the moring tea and served it to his family in bed.gswhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00464061976742965239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-10053148404041983052010-02-12T13:30:47.333+00:002010-02-12T13:30:47.333+00:00A few discrepancies in these texts. I don't th...A few discrepancies in these texts. I don't think rotary lines were invented until the 70s ( I could be worng but I don't recall ever seeing them until the mid 70s), the term 'mouthing' strikes me as unlikely. In those days it dwould have been known more euphemistically as 'intimate kissing'. And, to talk about 'the normal act in abnormal ways' (or whatever it says) is not how it would have been expressed, people talked about 'intimacy' or 'the intimate act' when they wanted to be polite. Also, the top photo looks like an obvious fake. The woman is dressed in Edwardian clothes and she appears to be superimposed on the rotary line. My guess is that she is a Scottish fishwife from the 1900s.Sue Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-17706403944834359792010-02-12T12:28:46.195+00:002010-02-12T12:28:46.195+00:00I've no idea who wrote them but they did bring...I've no idea who wrote them but they did bring a smile to my face - thanks - *moan*.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-22338832366135930442010-02-12T11:57:49.625+00:002010-02-12T11:57:49.625+00:00William Donaldson (of the Henry Root letters) is a...William Donaldson (of the Henry Root letters) is always a likely candidate, though i don't think this one is quite up to his usual standard. Donaldson's best, for me, are the non-sexual ones - there was a good one about Lee van Cleef and modern art from one of his bog books, that still pops up occasionally.<br /><br />The photo doesn't look right does it? The drying thingy is 50s I think, the clothes are surely much earlier and the human wearing them played centre half for Partick Thistle in 1961.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066060298313974061.post-21203622033288687672010-02-11T22:27:35.347+00:002010-02-11T22:27:35.347+00:00"...a small moan from yourself..."
Nag,..."...a small moan from yourself..."<br /><br />Nag, nag, nag.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com