I was watching something from the late 60s the other day, and there was a line by a young actress explaining that young people don't think there will be a future for them and are living accordingly.

It was the exact same sentiment you would expect to see while doom-scrolling today.

politicians have lost their minds.

Hey! Whoa! Uncool!

Don't bring ME into this! I'm not a politician!

Tbf these days those gripes are more valid than they have ever been. The children are mindless robots who commit crimes just to broadcast it on tiktok. The politicians are turning into literal nazis and wrecking the country on every feasible level. And “no one wants to work” not because of the tiresome nature of the grind, but rather because we are working for less buying power than what 12 year old child laborers had in the 50s. Not to mention the environment is going to shit for the benefit of a handful of people, and were all probably gonna die in one horrific natural disaster or another

I just want to know... who does not greet their partner when they return home? I take the advice there as a more servile action... like bringing slippers and a cocktail dressed up with heels and full make up? I mean, in the 1920s, many women worked. So maybe this is advice for the upper middle class that hire housemaids?

It doesn't say "greet". It says "listen for the latchkey and meet him on the threshold". That's demented. And I already agreed with bizarroland, so not really sure what your point is here.

Yeah, that's much more reasonable. Basically, "Show your partner you care that they're there".

In the 1920s... moms were not "stay at home moms" they were "housewives." There is a difference. Men were not expected to assist in the house... nor in the parenting unless there was discipline to be meted out.

I was a young child in the 1960s and was put to bed right after we had a family dinner at 7 pm. My contact with my father involved welcoming him home (literally jumping from the top of the stairs in our split level) and having dinner in my nightgown at the kids table and kissing every one goodnight and going to sleep... and that was on the the nights he came home at a decent hour.

My mother was responsible for the house upkeep, laundry, meals, food and she did extra little jobs for such luxuries as a new wash machine, a piece of furniture, our doctor and dentist bills and keeping the home in cigarettes and scotch. Because if they were not there.... she had hell to pay from Dad. Occasionally, she would have to write a check for them for which he berated her for.

I work from home and if I'm able to right when my wife gets home I'll meet her at the door.

Yeah, maybe just word it different, like "Say hello to each other," and it has a less condescending tone. I read that first one and expected some terrible advice to follow, and it all ended up being good advice; maybe worded a little of-the-time, but still good.

Working for pay from home is different than working without pay from home in the power dynamic. Especially in a time when women could not legally have their own bank account without their husband cosigning and having access.

Same here. I missed her, I want to hug her, tell her something interesting that happened, ask about her day, etc.

Hey, the joker pulls it off!

Interestingly enough, I love fictional movies, TV shows and comics/graphic novels/manga. It's just with books where I get bored extremely easily if I don't feel like there's a tangible connection with the real world.

I guess I approach books with a "time to learn" mindset, and not necessarily as sources of entertainment. Even though I very much enjoy learning about history, and find it entertaining.

I read a lot, too, just not much fiction. If you look at my Kindle library, I have bought like 50 books since I got it, around 10 are fiction, and all are about 30-40% through, none are finished. The remaining 40 are either history books or textbooks for my other hobbies. I have only dropped 2 of them.

I have a handful of fictional books that I have finished and thoroughly enjoyed: Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, the Harry Potter Series (when I was younger), the Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa and the Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.

Well that's clearly on the wife for letting him leave the house like that.

Oh god it just keeps on getting worse. He’s already found someone new. His wife’s best friend. I just can’t with this kid.

One of the many myriad things I adore about my wife is that she will ask me questions about things to understand them better. To the point where she’s made me look up sources and challenge and sometimes change what I know to be true.

Imagine being black and seeing that as an example of racial bias that's politically correct enough in that time and place to be featured in an ad. If that's an example of an organization putting its best foot forward, I hate to see what's going on behind closed doors. Now that's terror.

You will be surprised how she expands

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