I was raised in a nuclear family with attentive and loving parents. Education is mostly free in my country. Hubby and me just applied for an apartment and within a year we had a first-hand contract on a two-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of the second-largest town in Sweden. (Nowadays, you'd be so lucky if you get a second-hand (i.e. renting from someone who rents from the landlord) contract after a couple of years of living in other people's apartments.)
My mother did NOT have attentive and loving parents. They were fairly indifferent to her, and when she was home from school with illnesses, they'd expect her to clean the apartment. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother had anxiety-problems.
My paternal grandmother became a widow when my dad was just a baby. She re-married five years later, mostly for comfort I think, I never saw much love between them.
In short, many people were unhappy, there were lots and lots of binge drinking, and there were probably more child-molestations and sexual harassment than we care to know.
NoGoal, you have romanticized a time you have never experienced, that never existed, that you've only seen on "Leave it to Beaver"-kinds of fake stories.
I live in a lovely house, that the bank own most of, sure, but we manage the payments very well. I have very few broken families among my friends and relatives. I've never done drugs, or even been offered any drugs (to my knowledge and memory). In the small town I live in, everyone knows someone who knows everyone. We've lived here for ten years and we are still the New Ones. My new colleague drove me home one day, and when he saw where I lived, he said he used to spend a lot of his teenage years in our neighbors' house, playing with their sons.
"Where women rule the social scene with control over casual sex and men cannot even trust their partner."
Huh? Women ruled the social scene even more back then, the wives/mothers organized parties and get-togethers where young people met and got to know each other. With Weinstein and MeToo, even you ought to have realized that some men take as much casual sex as they want, and women have no control over that whatsoever. And no, we do not like these men, we loathe them. But as they can destroy one's career, one's reputation, one's life, you sometimes have few options than to keep quiet about the rapes and harassments.
If you can't trust your partner, you might have the wrong partner. Can he or she trust you? Are you perhaps projecting what you'd do if you were in his/her shoes, and think they are going to do the same...?
You daft imbecile! Women HAVE been "exposed to the images of how it used to be"; we've seen the same movies as you have! We also know of the romanticize past, where women were little more than housemaids and sex-slaves. We, our mothers and grandmothers, sisters and daughters have fought and are still fighting against these injustices. We are HAPPY that most of them are gone!
Not every husband beat their wives back then, but they all had that right. They also had the right to rape their wives. And no, these are not lies, this is the truth. You're the ones living inside a set of lies, dolts.
