I always find the whole trad-wife thing dumb for this reason. Most women throughout history *worked*. You had to if you wanted to eat. They worked on farms just as hard as the men, wove, cooked, mucked stables, herded animals, fixed things, etc. This idea of the idyllic house wife is profoundly dumb
My great-grandmother was old enough for that, while she didn't work in the mines like my great-grandfather, she worked in the garden, or else you didn't had food.
The dramatic rise of population - the booming economy and the markets to exploit said economy. And the red scare when we started sitting down and defining what was "American" or "right" and what was "godless" and "commie."
I wonder how much the advent of marketing as a organized field has to do with this, too. In deciding to study culture and work out how to manipulate it, they end up "ossifying" it.
What comes to mind is the Cult of Inanna, which was composed of priestesses, not unlike the Pythia, and hierophants, a castrated priestdom. The Cult of Inanna spread from Uruk syncretically and by way of social usurpation as the remainder of society plummeted into patriarchy.
And if they weren’t invented in the 1950s they were invented in the Victorian era by hypocrites who would froth at the thought of a naked ankle in public before quietly popping down the docks to pay to commit child sexual abuse and smoke an opium pipe….
yep.
Also, regularly ask yourself is your "tradition" simply a marketing ploy from the 20th century? You will be much happier if you let go of some "traditions".
[Norman Rockwell standing man] They made it up in the 19th century as part of the National Revival zeitgeist. Whatever it is, whichever country it's from, that's whence it came.
Me, too - inspiration for the word (& definitions) for 'sinister' (14th C BCE); 'maladroit' (late 17th C); 'gauche' (mid-18th C) ... Right, by contrast, inspires 'correct, adroit (droit: right in French), dextrous (dexter: right in Latin), steadfast, proper, conservative, measured, authoritative'.
And this history of suppressing left-handedness has inadvertently erased cross-dominance (which is not ambidexterity) from public perception. My mom is left-handed and cross-dominant; I am right-handed and cross-dominant. It’s kind of like being bi since we have a preference but swing both ways 😆
Exactly it's like how zoos used to hide any animal that showed homosexual tendencies from the public eye to avoid getting flack for showing "immoral" things.
There is only one species that we have documented an aversion to homosexual tendencies. So they are the weird ones, not us.
My favorite is "Yeah, I admit it's not about the children, I just don't want to see disgusting gays when I look for a Netflix show to watch" (got this one out of someone really wanting to debate me, he stopped trying to convince me that I will grow out of leftism since)
The nuclear family is basically only compatible with the socioeconomic conditions of 1940s-60s (white) America.
Even if everyone wanted it, it's a financially unsustainable system.
being in the pony fandom, while also being the type of online debater that ends up heavily researching a topic just to point out flaws in hater arguments, has lead to me to learn alot about social norms. like how pink has only been "for girls" since the 50s, it used be blue for girls & pink for boys
my favorite factoid was learning that the famous dress color argument in Sleeping Beauty was actually satire on the debate going on at the time. and if you look at how female disney characters were dressed before and after, you can actually see the change.
Conservative bronies always rubbed me the wrong way. That's like voting Republican as a gamer, just because some chuds on youtube told you that Anita Sarkeesian was an evil feminist and a con artist (she was wrong on some fronts, just not on those they claimed).
True, but their perspective on same-sex sexual activity and what we might call "queerness" is VERY different from our own. The acts may be things we would recognise now as "gay sex" but we should not impose presentism onto them.
That's NOT what I meant. I was talking about the different values attached to penetrating or being penetrated, the way the Roman concept of effeminate pansydom doesn't quite fit a camp gay man now, to the point that they thought cunnilingus was the most effeminate sexual act a man could engage in.
It seems from the get-go we as a species live (and die) through periods of extraordinary enlightenment, tolerance and progressive thoughts and behaviors ... Then, like a pendulum, we regress once more to the most reactionary and condemnatory and bigoted views. Hope vs. Fear. On an eternal loop.
A low-key fairly straightforward one is Christmas as a family event. Puritans tried to ban Christmas because it was such a rowdy boozy affair. There was a concerted effort in 19th to early 20th century to turn it into a family, rather than communal festival.
Going back thousands of years those kids were contributors to the household or clan by various means until they were ready to start their own family. And that would be closer to 30 than 20.
Yep, the house in the suburbs with a yard and a two-car garage is social engineering enabled by urban freeways, created by demolishing minority-owned houses and businesses.
Stories of the folklore figures on which Santa was based were around for a long time before Coca Cola though--they mostly just codified his design and costume. Heck, some of the stories from which the modern Santa legends originated predate Christianity!
what's funny is i do know about Saint Nicholas, patron of children and sex workers, but most people who celebrate the holiday may know "patron of children" at most. it's kind of tragic, ig this is where the term "santa claus-ified" comes from
breaking my hiatus to thank you for this, i hate falling for misinfo and am definitely embarrassed :( but this is an interesting read! would it be safe to say CC popularized specifically red santa, though, seeing as the green variant's become broadly rarer?
Thinking about how trans rights and communism have one big thing in common: both terrify people who don’t understand them. #TransRights #Communism #MutualAid
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Also, regularly ask yourself is your "tradition" simply a marketing ploy from the 20th century? You will be much happier if you let go of some "traditions".
Left handed people always existed, it was only when it wasn't seen as wrong that all of a sudden the number EXPLODED.
Same thing, different group of people.
There is only one species that we have documented an aversion to homosexual tendencies. So they are the weird ones, not us.
Homophobia: existing on and off for a few thousand years depending on cultural trends and social elitism proliferation.
Even if everyone wanted it, it's a financially unsustainable system.
It is not. They are very much doing it on purpose.
Coca-Cola did not have as big an impact on Santa as is often claimed.
More information here;
https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/12/03/coca-cola-did-not-create-santa/