I wasn't making fun of you
A matter of perspective. It "feels" like you were making fun of me, and others, let's be honest here. It was IMO a snarky way to make a point, thru innuendo w/o making the point clear. I don't care for sarcasm in any honest discussion.
I didn't live in the 50's but from what I can tell the level of conformity would have made my skin crawl
So you really don't know what it was like, but feel qualified to say what it was like. What is your source for your understanding of the 50s? TV? Yeah, life wasn't all Ozzie and Harriet and Father Knows Best but I lived in the middle class suburbs, so it was close for me.
I don't personally know anybody who'd willingly go back unless they could take an age reduction too.
A common thought.
I also wouldn't have wanted to live in 1950's America if I was anything other than white, Christian and middle class.
You don't know anything real about 1950s America. And that is a greatly overused trope. Life in America wasn't the same everywhere, but it had more to do with poverty and location than with color of skin, religion, and class structure. POC in my town lived the same quality of life as others if they had the same paying jobs. And I worked with many. "Middle class"... means whatever the median bunch were living. But in rural USA there was plenty of poor, same as there was in the big cities. Yet, they had a good life, unlike the poor that lived in the big cities. Your trope disregards that there were plenty of white, non-christian, low income people living throughout the USA, but writers, journalists, and others seem to be city centric. It's not just about them... they needed to get out and visit the real America.
Thanks for the spelling lesson.
No need for that. I didn't correct your spelling, did I??? I admitted to a sinful urge. Your spelling lesson was when your browser highlighted the word in red, but you ignored it...
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