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- From: griswoldj@bntley.bntley.ingr.com (John Griswold)
- Subject: Re: Al Gore -VP Curse strkes again?
- Message-ID: <griswoldj-181192173614@jlg_mac.bntley.ingr.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.181753.29925@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Nov17.204031.26258@ <1992Nov17.222742.13500@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov18.160032.3800@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:44:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.160032.3800@tc.cornell.edu>,
- shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov17.222742.13500@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rchabot@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert J Chabot) writes:
- > >Please illustrate other examples of conservatives pointing fingers at fictional
- > >characters. The statement aappears to be a "generalization."
- >
- > Quayle's constant harping about Hollywood's "cultural elite"
- > is probably the best example.
- >
- > >1) Just *how* did the 50s "attempt to force" women into the kitchen??? The 50s
- > >were a period of relative prosperity, esp. in the U.S. If women were
- > >returning to "the kitchen", it was in response to the *economic* context--not
- > >to the "50s attempt to force women into the kitchen."
- >
- > It was both. During the Second World War women went to work
- > jobs that had traditionally been reserved for men. When the
- > war ended and the soldiers returned, women were forced out
- > of their jobs so that the men could have them back.
-
- Yea, the men that had helped defend the world from tyranny.
- You make this sound as if the war was some plot to give women a
- bunch of grief.
-
- Lets not make this statement without full credit. We are talking
- about a country and a world that had been turned completely on end.
- I don't know of very many women that wanted to be in those factories
- or very many men that wanted to be overseas. But we all did what
- was required.
-
- The return to a *normal* culture was important for *everyone* to
- recover from the shock of war. Lots of things changed and adjusted
- as a result of the war. Not all good and not all bad. Just changed.
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