@@fredgarvin716 the point is she probably isn’t taking that into account when saying she wants to live in the 1940’s. mainly basing that idea on fashion & “simple times”. Meanwhile avoiding the problematic parts of the 40’s such as WWII & the chronic lynching of black people (most often falsely accused of harassment by the women she is idealizing)
not to mention genocide, internment camps, unable to vote, mandatory work (finally!) for a few years then get fired without warning half way through the decade
@@AtetrigramsYea for some reason women nowadays think it’s a privilege and a honor to slave away your life for Jewish paper dollars 🤡 they think it’s better than raising a living family.
@@ifyouknowyouknow6964 Yes, and there are and were many “trash ass men”…so what’s your point? In the 1940s when that happened women had *literally* no options. They were stuck.
My wife's grandmother lived in a stairwell in the 1940's for 5$ a week while her husband was at Midway. People had to walk through her "room" to go up and down the stairs and the men upstairs watched her change. She worked in a factory making tanks for 60+ hrs a week. Good luck with that 1940's thing girl.
In the 1920's, both my grandfathers escaped Stalin's Ukraine starving to death, came to America legally, with 0 handouts, and became coal miners in Pa., both dead at age 60.
@@JimmyTony-uu2xsso they made it and were successful in creating a new life and future for your family, good for them and especially now I’m sure you are glad they did. Imagine having to deal with either of those crazy sides rn in Western Europe
My great uncle didn’t make it the 1940’s because he got killed in the trenches, he also didn’t have AC and had to work on a farm before he got enlisted
Idk my experience is America could go without ac for a month and climate change crap will be out the window. Most Americans are used to 70 degrees because they spend most of their time inside. They step outside into NORMAL 90 degree weather and it takes their breath away. I work in a shop thats ten degrees warmer than outside. It’s almost sweat shirt time when it’s 80 degrees. Obviously elderly can’t just turn off the ac but the young can. Plus elderly nowadays remembers no ac so they have done their time without.
@@winstonsmith2766Exactly,you wouldn’t miss what you never had.I grew up without a/c and I lived plus,it was a much more innocent time then.Families were closer,music was not trash and people stayed in the closet.Sorry,but that’s how I feel.I’d take the 40s over this time period for sure!
My parents were depression babies. And they lived with rationed supplies. Like you you got a 5 pound bag of white sugar for a month. But that 5 pounds was used for cooking and baking and for the kids cereal and for your coffee. That sugar is used fast. My Grandpa would get 2 used and 2 new tire inter tubes a year. He was a farmer with plenty of machinery to work the land. So he would mend those inter tubes often. And when keep repairing them putting patches upon patches to make due. Until there were no more places he could put any more patches on. Then after he had a few old inter tubes he and my great Uncle’s would all gather up their old tubes and bring them over. And my Grandpa and Great Uncles and my Great Grandpa would melt those old tubes in a huge melting pot and would fix EVERYONES shoes. Painting the melted rubber on the bottoms of the shoes to extend the life of the shoes and taking a ripped piece of newspaper and holding it against where the leather came off the sole of the shoe and paint rubber over the hole or rip in the shoe, sometimes doing 4 to 6 layers. And you kept those shoes until the youngest kid couldn’t wear them anymore. And women and girls wore potato sack dresses and potato sack shirts and pants. Then WE2 started and things were rationed even more. You also mended clothes until you didn’t have a spot to put a patch on. It didn’t matter if your legs were longer than your pants. You wore those pants until Mom let them out as much as she could. Only when those pants were so tight around your middle and no one else had kids pants that were bigger did you get either pants OR mom bought fabric to make you a pair. And she would make as many pairs of pants and skirts as she could get out of that piece of fabric. My Mom’s side were farmers, My Dad side were handy men and gas station owner. So Moms side always had plenty of food Dads side struggled. The kids always got to eat first, then Grandma and Grandpa ate what was left.
@Mama M I grew up hearing similar stories from my grandparents and it made it so much more real for me than just studying the subject in school. My grandpa was incredibly intelligent but only had an eighth grade education because he had to quit school to help his family survive. I definitely admire them for their fortitude and certainly wouldn't romanticize that period of time because I like the fashion, etc.
@@Idontwant1My grandfather waa pretty wealthy. He ran a successful trucking company, and he owned a huge farm. My dad and his sisters didn't suffer at all during the Depression or WW2.
@@Coffeendonutsweellll with our current technology any past wars would be a breeze but I'm assuming thats not what you really mean. Even so today's US military is still extremely powerful even with the current "social justice" that is being taught to our soldiers.
@@Coffeendonutslol bro, those panzy snowflakes will be flying drones up your ass from their bedrooms. Youre going to be the fodder on the battlefield.
@@gofigure84Uhm... Are you that dumb? The whole workforce was comprised of women for several years in the 40's because of WW2. The Rosey Rivets posters were released in like 1943.
My grandmother had to pool ration tickets (illegally) just to get enough silk to make her wedding dress; her veil was machine netting. She also had to manually grind caster sugar into icing sugar for the wedding cake. When my uncle was born in 1948 (rationing existed here til ‘55), she had to donate to the breastmilk bank due to the lack of formula supply. It may seem like semantics, but it’s important for people to realise that 40’s era clothing, music and kitsch, are not just fashion and pop culture … they are byproducts of austerity and deprivation. By all means, celebrate those elements in honour of those who survived it, but reflect on where they came from first.
You do realize many people still live like this today? This isn't an obsession with clothes or music. It's a want to return to traditional values and simpler way of living. Not everyone can afford to live in modernity. I'm a millennial but was raised in a house with no tv, no radio, no computer, no microwave. We grew most of our food and then canned/froze it to last a couple years. Most food was made from scratch. We made our own butter, cheese, mustard, ketchup and mayo. My mom sewed all of my clothes. Neighbors had chickens and cows. Family members hunted. We made our own soaps, candles, lotions. My grandfather and father built much of the furniture I still use today. I continue to do all of these things as an adult and pass the knowledge to my daughter.. Not everyone can afford to buy everything they need. Making stuff yourself lets you be less reliant on the government and have a large family on a lower middle class salary. None of my grandparents ever had to deal with the ration cards because they knew how to grow a lot of food on 1/3 acre and hunt/fish and preserve food.
@@VictoriaReadsReddit I admire anyone who strives to exist simply and self-sufficiently and there are many appealing cultural qualities to that sort of lifestyle, especially against all the 'noise' of the modern world - for the most part nowadays, though, it is a **choice** of lifestyle that people adopt voluntarily. Whereas in the 1940s, men and women were forced into austerity because of WWII and the deprivation that existed as a result; they didn't choose to live that way, they had to. More specifically, had the Depression or the War never happened, fashion, music and culture of that period would've been significantly different. The point I'm trying to make is, the way you were brought up is not the same as living in the 1940s, like this woman desires - it's **similar** , but not the same, because it's for entirely different reasons.
Those were the days: WWII, epidemics of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, influenza.....I was born in 1949 and my childhood memories consist of being sick. One awful illness after another. There was a reason mothers couldnt work outside of the home: somebody had to stay home with a sick kid. And somebody was ALWAYS sick. When chickenpox went through my own family, the three of them didnt get it at the same time, each one caught it in turn, so it was 6 weeks of hell.
Funn how i have tons of family that are as old as you and they say thats not true. There mothers didnt work outside the home because they had to cook all day and do laundry and clean. Everyone wasnt constantly sick. People were generally healthier and stronger then than now.
@@UncomplicatedFellowFunny how people have different experiences and that these things actually happened in the 1940's. Also funny that your family isn't confirmed as the norm nor do they make up the majority of people in the 1940's, which doesn't qualify them to determine whether this is a lie or not, even more so because they've apparently never gone through the struggles 1940 had to offer. The only aspect of health that was superior in the 1940's is diet wise, because there were rations and fat shaming. We have the strongest, most advanced medicines and technology then we did any other point in time.
that's definitely a fair point. but people in this video are ridiculing her for wanting to live then based upon the idea of women supposedly not having rights in the 1940's.
In the 1940’s my great grandma was 15 years old working in an airplane factory while her future husband was on an aircraft carrier keeping aircraft flying to beat the imperial Japanese navy.
My grandma lived in the 1940s. I see a lot of myself in my grandma, which makes me so glad I wasn't alive then. Both of us have terrible anxiety, but she didn't have any money or resources or medication to address it. She was so worried about being a bad housewife, because she wasn't a good cook or good at sewing etc. But when she finally worked (her husband was disappointed, but they needed the money) her coworkers have told me she pretty much ran that office, even though officially she was a secretary. I'm so glad I have the opportunities and options (and psychological medications!) that I do now.
I’d rather live in the 90s and 2000’s than right now. Standard of living was better, economy was better, things were more adorable, and we didn’t have social media. Tell me I’m wrong and it wasn’t better.
@@jsilva7005 Only problem I have with that, I wouldn't want to be traumatized by 911. I was born in 2008. My older sister told me about it and I was TERRIFIED. I still to this day don't fuck with planes.
@@MWNTI_Studios I was 11 when 9/11 happened. I saw it on TV before I went to school. I remember telling my mom what was happening while she was making me breakfast and she just said, “Ok come eat” She didn’t even register what I said until I told her to come watch the TV. What happened was very sad, but unless you were in the city or had a family member in a plane you wouldn’t have been traumatized. I was 15 when MySpace became a thing. It was Facebook before Facebook existed. And when I got to college, Facebook was just taking off. Let me tell you right now, high school and college were so much more fun when people were not obsessed with social media. People weren’t recording every single thing. There were no stupid tik tok trends. We lived more in the moment. It’s crazy how far technology has come. When we first got a computer the internet was dial up. That means that we didn’t have internet 24/7. If we wanted to use the internet, we had to unplug or phone landline and wait like 60 seconds for it to connect. As cool as technology is, I would say it hasn’t improved my quality of life. And I would gladly go back to the early 2000’s when the internet was just getting started. On top of that everything was significantly more affordable. In 1998, my parents bought their house for $50,000. That same house today costs $700,000. It’s ridiculous.
Thank you for all you did ma’am! My mom is 87. That’s why people of your generation are known as “The Greatest Generation”. Everyone sacrificed for the good of their country and each other. Today’s young adults…very sad that they have no respect for what you all did for them.
@@kimwidol that's the truth. These know-it-alls today think they know everything and just soak up the b.s. they are fed. The 40's was a time that will never happen again. WWII was raging and most men had to go. Even my grandfather was called and he was in his late 30's and low on the list. But, he answered the call. My mom was born 1 week after he left. She met her Dad when she was 2 but she was lucky cause a lot of men never came home. With a shortage of men, women picked up the slack and ran this country and kept the home fires burning. With out the women doing this, we would have lost. Not all women who picked up the slack were single, many wives with children did too. That's where daycares got their start. My family still has the letters that my grandfather sent home to my grandmother during the war.
This is Bullshit !!! This lady know !! And you have absolutely no idea !! That is why you Dress like a ((((( slob that just rolled out from under the Bed ))) Facts are there and we all see it !! (((( Fact ))))
My grandmother was born in the 1920’s and recalls life in her 20’s. My grandmother was born in a different country where bride kidnapping was an actual thing. The stories that her friends, relatives and herself told were mind blowing. My grandmother was dating my grandfather when she heard a rumor from a close friend that someone was planning on coming for her. She confided in my grandfather and he married her to save her from it. Her sister was saved by their uncle and brother who witnessed a man pulling and dragging her from the front of the house. What a time to live in.
That sounds horrifying. People need to be just glad we don't have to live through the things our ancestors had to live through. At least we have a choice. Why can't she just be a housewife and dress like it and still have a right to do it.
She’s obviously had a very entitled life to wish that! Can someone please explain to her that she can wear the clothes, listen to the music of the 40’s etc here in 2024!
other way around, this comment section is full of entitled people getting mad that she can look a the past and see an objectively better living standard than today
I have seen re-enactments of the American Ciil War, a very nasty time. I can attest that the women had style (never mind that a common cause of death for women then was that they burned to death as their long dresses got drawn into a fireplace or stove). Medicine was still rudimentary, and dysentery was commonplace.
It really wasn’t a better living standard, you just expected less. There was one phone in the house only. One car only. One TV only. Your closet could fit about three dresses. Two pairs of pants and about four pair of shoes. You ate out maybe once every three or four months for a special occasion.
Total bullshit. You are regurgitating fairytales. Women had well founded opinions then and they voiced them. I knew many who would make this immutable fact clear to you. They ran the house and were decision makers for most of the household’s concerns.
She is ignorant. All she wants is the fashion and glamour depicted in movies and perhaps to be taken care of by a husband. It is an escape fantasy. The reality of life before women's rights would hit her...hard.
People don't know what true strength is and it ain't measured in bench press. People are so easily manipulate and weak minded. There all yes people! This is how they think "oh, wise government and society tell me how to think and live. I am unable to think for myself. I must rely all the systems to survive. I can't function with out the assistance of the Government." That is how large portions people are today. mindless yes people who do as there told. I believe a lot of your statement holds true.
Not to be rude, but I think they had to be. Or else they'd end up on the streets and probably die from the common cold or a simple scratch infection that plain old penicillin could have cured.
My Nanna was born in 1912, worked to support her two sons throughout the 30s, 40’s and 50s and looked after everyone around her till the day she died in 1999. She was the Matriarch, most respected member in our family, called all the shots, never took no crap, held everything together. Women of the 40’s were incredible humans.
modern women have forgotten how to do that. they accept the bullshit they are told about how awful everything was. perfect? no. dystopian hell? also no.
Women had opinions in the 1940’s. They might’ve not been taken seriously in a lot of cases however, we wouldn’t be here today if somebody wasn’t listening to women’s opinions in the 1940s.
I still don't use air conditioners and I live in the dust bowl of Canada. What's wrong with opening some windows and turning on a fan if need be? I don't run my AC in my car and I removed the AC in my RV. It's a complete waste of power. I don't run a furnace either. My heat, cooking and hot water are all done by wood burning stove. I harvest my wood, carry my wood, cut my logs and build my fire daily. I live in -40°C in the winter and +35°C in the summer. Welcome to Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 Oh yeah...and I'm a 35 y\o woman.
@@somethingelse4424 Damn, I always considered older times in America were better, more affordable, nicer people and less unhinged ones. I feel like today for many women and men its worse, usually self inflicted though. When I went to an American University, my peers were always drunk or doing something illegal. Or just unhinged. Not all but too many for my liking.
@@sukaenacornelius9285 Well did you live in the 40's in the US... Or any country? You're doing the same thing as the woman in the video and idealizing a time period that you weren't even alive during.
One of my favorite authors said:"Through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia everything looks romantic, even the guillotine" This applies here. You want to be a stay at home wife - go for it. Everyone can choose how he wants to live, but don't sell us bullshit like you figured out the laws of the universe.
In the 1940s, my grandfather was drafted and sent to the European Theater, my pregnant grandmother lost the tavern they owned because a woman wasn't legally allowed to own and operate a business. She gave birth to my mother and had to move in with her family because she couldn't afford to live on her own and begin raising a child. Things were rationed, pennies were made of lead because copper was diverted for use in ammunition production and people were still dying from polio, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Yeah, the good ol' 1940s.
😂😂 Not in a line with a ration book for an ounce of lard etc. I expect theres indoor plumbing, shower, laundry room too, not weekly trip to public baths and sheets waiting to be collected by the 'bag wash" company.
I'd love to see her go into a radar station and reconfigure the computers and antennae and dishes, to invent wi fi internet before the internet so she can continue posting her "Tradwife RUclips Shorts"
Ah yes the 1940's when two of my Great Aunties had to drop out of school in 8th Grade to work at the American Thread company making Parachutes with my Great Grandmother, who had lost her husband to Meningitis a few years before, while my Grandmother was in the Shriners hospital because she had contracted Polio and needed 15 surgeries between the ages of 4-15.. What a blissful time! Not to mention Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps, the Holocaust and The Atom Bomb. Liking an Era's Clothing, Music and Art are not the same as Wanting to live in that time. People are silly! She has the ability to Cosplay as the 1940's however send her back and I doubt she'd be singing the same tune!
@@Drummerchick2003look i get it youre a conservative but you dont have to announce to the world you are retarded. Just say you vote republican. Its easier to type and gets the same point across.
I was brought up in a family where two generations lived through the 1940s. While a lot of our conversations and family story telling pivoted on that decade no one ever uttered the desire to re-live that era.
Exactly. My mother was born in the 1930’s and has never said she wishes it was still the 1940’s. She became a nurse and described catarac surgeries in the 1950’s this way - you surgically removed the cataracts then placed the patient’s head between two sandbags and they laid there like that for two weeks while their eyes healed. No thanks! If you got them earlier, you just went blind.
In the 1940s, my grandmother knew everyone in this small town. She was "just" a war widow, but when she died we got hundreds of cards from people I never heard of.
9 things women could not do before 1971. Women could not get a credit card in their own name and serve on the front lines in 1971. They could get fired for getting pregnant, they could not take legal action against workplace sexual harassment, they paid more in health insurance and they were unable to take their husbands to court for rape. It is not 100% accurate that women couldn't serve on juries and get an Ivy League education or contraception. Right now im only guessing it was even worse in 1941...
My mom had many hard war stories, living in black out at night, air raids, shortage food, and product. Rationing of their entire lives. Men off to war for months at a time. Many never returned. Wow this girl needs a history lesson!
@@Wen6543crazy part is that the war was also fought in many third world countries. Phillipines, Indonesia, and many other areas of the pacific and even throughout North Africa. Not taking away from your claim but just adding to it since a lot of people may not know that. The scope of WWII was unparalleled. But like said it would be hard enough without the war
@@aquastar5314that’s something that only people who’ve never left the U.S. would say 😂. Living conditions in a third world country are significantly different. You can’t drink the water in many areas, have to pay to use the bathroom and can’t flush toilet paper only throw it in the trash for starters. And shower using a bucket and sponge. I highly recommend traveling and getting to experience other cultures though. I’ve been through the boondocks of the Philippines they’re very poor but some of the nicest, happiest people you’ll ever meet.
@@surfjax23 Come to the UK as the Tories have brought much of that back in, you now have to pay to use a public toilet, and we have 1 in 4 children living in extream poverty, like going without food for days and sleeping on the streets, and now we have houdrads of young children with rickets and osteomalacia, and 1 in 3 families needing to use food banks, and half of the elderly pensioners going without heating as it's just way to expensive.
I talked to my grandmother about the 1940s and she said the sense of togetherness was amazing during the war. She was from a very poor family and my grandad worked in an aircraft factory which was repeatedly bombed with horrific loss of life (before idiots come at me with some nonsense)
The problem is an entire political party in the US is crafting these narratives thru word of mouth. Scarier yet they often have zero clue how naive and inaccurate their views are.
I think she likes the clothing style of the period. Some of them are coming back, but everything is made so cheaply these days. It’s difficult to find something well-made and affordable for the average person.
I don't normally encourage messaging an ex but i must know... (gonna paste my comment of questions here) ALL THE TYPOS/MISSED SPACES IN THIS POST ARE BECAUSE RUclips BLOCKED ME SAYING IT OTHERWISE I would unalivesomeone to ask her these: Could she have a bank account? An opinion? A right to not be beaten? A blackmale friend? A man??? (SORRY HE BUSY BEING UNALIVEDIN EUROPE) Could she be a housewife? (Sorry get a job to help the wareffort) could she buy food? Sorry it's scarce, there's a war on. Actually that applies to every supply she wants. Now that she is okay with that, let's get on withnuking japan TWICE and unalivr 6million Jews+30 million russians. *Yay, now your man is back. He has one leg and no pen15 and cant get a job and has INSANE PTSD from burning Japanese people alive and watching ALL OF HIS FRIENDS BEUNALIVED. He also cant hear you well because of all theexplosions and bulletsand his PTSD makes him blame you for that and beat you extra for it. But at least you can run from beatings because HE HAS ONE LEG and needs 24/7 care with no income* F me. This is such a stupid thing to say, that it actually makes Suzie *actually look crazy for not liking pesto*
1913 for mine, she made it to 100... mainly because she was too stubborn to die (or evil, perhaps)! She was also highly opinionated, intelligent, and articulate and brow-beat my grandpa for 70 years, he was a generally quiet stoic man and he knew not to test her! It's funny what people THINK life was like in X year.
My grandmother was born in 1939 and she has a beautiful cottage and a million dollar home with a massive garden and pool that she tends to everyday. She has a dog and my grandfather past away but she had 45 years of loving marriage and a lifetime of travels and stories to tell. Things weren’t perfect but she didn’t miss out.
As a European I can tell you that wishing to live in the 40's is not really popular here, in any EU country... If she has a brother I'm not sure that despite having the possibility to visit Asia or Europe free of charge, he would be ecstatic about the opportunity.
@@cold_static As a german I have to tell you, that this is the best joke about this topic I have ever read or heard. Seriously I am lying in my bed at night right now and can’t stop giggling.
My great grandmother told me that ww2 was the best time of her life because she was allowed to work. Her husband was at war and her children were evacuated out of Glasgow. She knew she should feel terrible but having work made her feel valued. I remind myself of this on the days I wish I wasn't at work
Think she felt that way because her work was going toward something? now our work just goes towards most time’s nothing significant like they did during ww2.
It's great that she was actually valued at work. Nowadays it seems like many employers these days don't value their workers and they simply just end up feeling like cogs in a machine
Woman, the world population back in 1940 was approximately 2.3 billion. World war II killed approximately 50 - 56 million people and war-related diseases and famine took out another 50 - 55 million. So you're looking at in excess of 100 million deaths or about 4% of the world's total population. You're not taking into consideration the rationing in Britain, which was almost down at starvation level - the lack of adequate nutrition was reflected in British performances in sport for the best part of a generation. Rationing wasn't as bad in the US but... if you were black you couldn't vote. People couldn't marry a person of another race. Because you are a woman you wouldn't have been allowed to get a loan to buy a house. There were jobs you were arbitrarily prevented from doing. You were a second class citizen. You really want to live in a time when you were a second class citizen?
I was helping my friends repaint the walls and stain the floor in an older home they got for cheap. There were things left, and I saw a rent check receipt from 1942 and was for 20.00 a month! I'd never want to live in the 40s, but I'll take that rent cost 😂
In 1940 my Grandmother was the Matriarch of the house. They had a large garden, my Grandfather was a Steamfitter. My Grandmother started many clubs and neighborhoods associations that lasted into the 80s, years after her death. The downside was that if I was seen doing anything wrong within our Parish, my Mother knew before I got home.
People really overlook how strong so many women were back then! Yes, life was tough and many women were overlooked, but many of them were the REAL heads of household as well. My grandma was a tough woman made from cast iron haha!
Many modern feminist ideas are actually male driven ideas. Men who own the corporations want feminists buying everything you could have gotten for free as part of a family unit..
@@SerV689 Oh yea, the generation that was abused on a daily basis by their husbands but yet every time I turn around I get asked "So when are you gonna get married dear?" That just the trauma talking right? Stop with the feminist propaganda
In the 1940s my grandmother was delivering babies in the centre of London whilst the Germans were bombing . She had plenty of opinions and by God she was listened to.
Issue is, your granny lived in the UK, not the US…in the US women were still often thought of like objects rather than people at that time. It was even mentioned in a U.S. Army training manual that women in the UK can outrank them, deserve to be treated with more respect, and are “more strongly opinionated”.
She wishes she lived in the fantasy version of the 1940s shown in period films. I think she is romantically attracted to the style and culture of the time as idealized by television.
Precisely this. Girl did no actual research and let Hollywood tell her how good the '40s were. Romanticising shit makes 💵💵💵. Being honest about history makes 💸💸💸
@@SageArdor and there's nothing wrong with liking a certain period's styles and certain elements of the culture. Even celebrating the good things with personal lifestyle is fine. But wishing you lived there is different. I find the Renaissance era absolutely fascinating. I enjoy Ren fairs, i also like indoor plumbing and modern healthcare and not being a serf to some inbred lord. LOL. 😅
Yes!! The fashion from that era was so much better quality and more beautiful. Also culturally the people were very unified in the idea that if they worked together they could achieve anything. Those are great things. I wouldn’t want the negatives from that time though and there were A LOT of negatives. We’ve come a long way as a society in treating women and minorities with way more respect. We should learn from the past, take on the good and learn to not repeat the mistakes of the past generations. This is the only way to continue growing and progressing.
@@SageArdorlmao WHAT? And why do you have the opinion you have? Literally because of Hollywood. I guarantee the 1940’s depicted in 1940’s movies were way more accurate than whatever dumbass culture destroying Hollywood movies you’ve consumed in the last 20 years.
My grandmother was a badass in the 1940s. She was in college and constantly running sorority and community events. She auditioned for a small film and got a lead role, which was a huge deal in her local paper. She became a teacher and did charity work while my grandfather was serving in WW2. She had her own ambitions and career and started a family when my grandfather blessedly made it home. She later divorced and lived independently and hosted bridge nights until dementia rid her ability. She was tough but extremely kind and I admire the heck out of her. God bless you Grandma K.
I'm so sorry Dementia robbed you all, she sounds amazing! They say now dementia is the third diabetes, glandular. More help now than then, a blessing for who suffered to prevent more suffering ✝️🙏
My not white grandmother had a amazing life too. Why do people believe everyone is oppressed. When my white grandfather was a kid in the 30’s the apparent his family lived in was owned by a black lady. No college kid would believe that if I told them.
@@rickyriccijr.6746 Of course you were opressed even when I left school in the early 1990s everyone said do nursing or be a teacher.- you are black and have a brain Had no effin desire to do either. If that is your desire no big deal but not every POC female with a brain wants to nurse or teach . People should stop romanticsing crap - BTW dont even mention sexism, Sexual misconduct at work and zero chance of promotion. Life was shite.
Yeah she also couldn't have her own bank account, or line of credit, or divorce her husband unless the husband said so.... People really need to start reading history books.
@@MrTrees77 What century are you talking about? My first female ancestor to Jamestown owned 80+ acres, circa 1611. I had several that owned land in the 1800's. My Great Grandmother Owned a Merchandise Store in Heavner, Oklahoma, Indian Territory. It had her name on it. They called her DOC. When she moved south, there was a woman that handed her her baby in the train and said she couldn't afford to raise it. Granny took her in and raised her as one of her own and the family was always welcome and known. No fuss.
Growing up knowing several people that lived through it - they all loved the era, not the war. And don't for a second think she wouldn't have had a say in her home. An example would be Indian families, the woman doesn't speak out in public, but she RUNS the house.
It's kinda funny watching people argue that their (great)-grand fathers were treating their (great)-grand mothers like sht only to prove some girl wrong.
@@forestlily5905 I hope you realize that that isn't the case for the mayority of people throwing their grand dad under the bus by saying every women was treated like a possession in the 40's. Besides that, calling my dad incredibly screwed up is not something i would do, even if it was true. It's almost like you're bragging that your grand father was a huge a-hole to win a pointless argument online about girl who says she'd like to live in the 40s. That's really sad, but kinda funny as well. That's exactly the point i tried to make. "smh" lol
My mum was born in 1926. She lost part of her hearing due to sickness and needed a hearing aid. Those where pretty clunky in the 40’s. She studied to be a teacher, but as she was handicapped she wasn’t allowed to that as handicapped people was looked down upon then. By the way, the sickness that caused her the hearing problem is easily treated today.
My grandmother was born in 1910 and she said "people talk about the good ole days, don't believe it, we had to scrape for everything !", she passed at 103 and saw a LOT
People today can only view the past with modern eyes. They can't possibly imagine how the ins ands out of daily life would affect them. Life was different, social dynamics and values were different. Families used to work together, now its just shit. People are separate and alone, and have less purpose beyond their own lives.
This is the problem today, because we have quick fixes for so many things, survival of the fittest has become a thing of the past, and now the planet is overpopulated with physically and mentally handicapped. This trend has brought down the quality of people while bringing up the quality of technology.
That's not an accurate description of 1940s middle class America. Woman we're not treated that way. I have plenty of family video from the time and people are having a ball. Men and women alike laughing and talking together.
@Lisa-pw2he I have plenty of family members that told me they grew up seeing women get a swift backhand or been on the receiving end of one if the man didn't like something they said or did. They also have plenty of pictures where they look happy. I'm sure many people weren't like that but for many people that is an accurate description of the 40s, 50s and even 60s.
@@azmiupnorth2220 and the kids got beat, and there were house fires, and community was much closer, families were much closer, everyone wasn't in their phone, we didn't have fentanyl zombies outside, you didn't need to live off of credit. There's all these pluses and minuses. It's incredible, it's almost like there was good and evil back then, and some lives were charmed and some lives were hard.
My grandma was born in 1925 Dublin Ireland and she could tell you you're tripping. 😅 she was a supervisor in a munitions factory in Birmingham making shells for the allies by the time she was 15. She only told me that amongst other crazy facts maybe 10+ years ago. True grit. We tend to think our grandparents are just sweet ole folks when in fact they were taking no shit. Women knew how to be a lady but also knew how to keep the house in order and take no shit. My last living GP is my granny Mary, shes 98 bless her. Her mind is starting to go. She barely knows us now 😢
Yeah the women from the Greatest Generation were tough. My granny was born in 1911 and got married during the depression. She said had it not been for their farm and the dairy they wouldn't have made it. They learned about life the hard way. One cool thing about her was she played the piano for the silent movies! 😊
I agree wholeheartedly. Anyone who thinks any different does so either because they have never known a woman born of that generation, and/or believe that having an opinion means one must be loud, obnoxious, crass, or rude.
1953-65 and 78-88 seem to be the best time to be alive in America. 2017-present is the worst, because although there were worse times on paper the social fabric of the country has fell apart.
MOST people look back on their youth and remember it fondly. That doesn't mean it was the best of times for everybody. We're just conditioned to think we did it right, while our parents did it wrong and our kids have screwed it all up. I guarantee your grandmother thought the next generation was out of their minds.
Slaves grew up during slavery and looked back at those days fondly as well.... I'm sure non Jewish Germans looked back at those Nazis days as being generally good days as well... I'm sure the woman not fighting for equality looked back at those days fondly as well
🤔Because your granny from that era (raised differently). But a YT female from now, that can get more than merely a black man MeToo’ed without proof and other feminist privileges that she doesn’t miss now, because their still accessible, IS QUITE A DIFFERENT STORY.
My grandfather worked 6 days a week and at the end of each week he handed my grandmother his entire paycheck. My grandmother managed the household and made sure that every family member had the necessities in the most frugal ways. It was a partnership where each gave the other 100% trust. Society may have not regarded women's opinions as a whole, but her opinion meant everything to my grandfather.
Just know that their relationship was the exception not the rule. The rule was mega unbalanced favoring the husband both legally and socially. All it took was you miscalculating your future husband and not knowing his streak of cruelty, narcissism, or substance abuse and you are locked in for a nightmare life.
This sounds like a lovely relationship. It’s even more heartwarming thinking that your grandfather did this because women didn’t have the same rights as men back then and he wanted for her to have some kind of freedom and balance the unfairness out.
@@squidgaurd6927 Normally i would just assume that's a joke and find it funny but nowadays you never know, so you know i wasn't talking about a band right?😅
@@jakemocci3953 The 1940’s was one of the worst periods in the history of the world. The world was still reeling from the Great Depression of the 30’s, got smashed in the face by WWII that cost 56 million lives, and saw the rise in Stalinism and Maoism which spawned more famines and genocides. Yeah, the theme park version is what she is seeking.
@@user-cq6dg6ql9j And yet homes were more affordable, we had less crime, families were stronger, and we were internationally respected. We used to be a real country, new America is a joke. I hope it collapses.
The 1940s are a bad place. My father was shot down over Warsaw, and many of the men in our little town never came home. Some of them, however, survived the death march through Germany. I saw Dutch warships from Indonesia unloading wounded civilians and the great battleship Nelson in harbour. Eight refugees from Singapore were in my class at school: their parents had been murdered in concentration camps. Many young Americans died in the Pacific war. The 1940s was not a nice time!
In the 1940's my grandmother was the wife of a well to do chemist. Her brother in law was a U.S. Senator. By 1940 standards her life was fairly comfortable compared to many. However she sewed every stitch of clothing for the entire family ( suits, shirts,dresses,ties, underwear and even my mother's wedding dress. She did laundry with a wringer washer and clothesline, ironed everything, maintained a garden for food and chickens for eggs and meat. Yes, she could wring the neck of a chicken and pluck it in the morning to have it ready for dinner in the evening. She canned, pickled and preserved food from the garden to use all winter. All meals were made at home and from scratch. Having gone through the great depression, she saw to it that nothing went to waste ever. As a young girl she could hitch up a team to the wagon. As an adult, she never drove a car. Either my grandfather took her or she would ride a bus. No TV but my grandparents loved the radio.
This a wonderful throwback. I'm Australian, my grandmother was still raising children in the 40's. Born 1906. She starched and ironed the sheets throughout the depression whist other children slept on dirty mattresses. I don't know that she had a ringer (as we did)... but she did have an outside boiler. She made the most of everything. My great uncles and aunts were fabulous, they sang around the piano and played board games they were alway's sociable and smart. It was indeed another time. Hard work and even grander romance.❤
What are you talking about? Don't you know everyone in the 40's and ESPECIALLY the ones 50's were all miserable and oppressed? Women today are much better off knowing next to no practical skills, twerking on TikTok, and being told they'll be happy being alone with 4 cats in their 40's.
What are you talking about influence? As soon as you walked through those doors it became her house, happy wife happy life came from this era. I knew my great and great great grandparents and my grandmothers were the ones who made all the decisions and my grandfathers wouldn't dare upset them. Generation later my grandpa was a dog constantly cheating and my great grandma said it's because women stopped being special and became just like the men when they entered the work force.
Somehow people think woman in those years were like children that men dont let them talk or do anything.. Thats not true at all.. Sorry for my english..
@@joserafaelbermudezartiles9398 They could only express their opinions to their husband. And he would always have the last word as "it was his castle".
Is that so? That's because you didn't live back then. Listen to what this man says... "elderly people could walk freely without fear of being shot by their grandchildren..."
@@sarahm9723 She would have had to worry about her husband being killed in the war. If she were black she would have had to worry about her husband being lynched and or killed in the war and if she were Japanese, she would have been sent to an internment camp. Domestic violence wasn't even a thing back then If a man hit his wife or cheated on her, it just between them. she had to stay because she couldn't just leave and take care of the kids on her own. This is why alimony and child support were created. But you're right, she wouldn't have to worry about being shot by her grandchildren... I guess?
Thomas Sowell is a genius! By the 40's black owned businesses had started to decline according to an article by Harvard. The Golden age of Black business was between 1900 and 1930.
@@incubus_the_man Men always died in war defending their women and their children and country, but not 100% of them, or 90% of them, or 50% or 30%, or mankind would not have survived, and yet here you are. It's amazing what terror some of the men living nowadays feel toward having to be brave. What an embarrassment! Some men today feminize themselves by choice, and being terrified of defending a country is part of that feminization. Also, you don't care that young blacks are murdering other children in the neighborhood, women in the neighborhood, and elderly people in the neighborhood, do you? You need to be ashamed of yourself, and it should be an embarrassment to you that you aren't.
Well, she's not European, so she stands a pretty good chance. American women were just working 12 hours a day in factories, not getting raped, shot and bombed like European women. Of course, I doubt she would even know what you and I were even talking about.🤦🙄
Apparently a lot did, so what's your point? What is it with all you people and these comments acting like surviving the 1940's was impossible? You think her point of view is stupid well it's nothing compared to yours, the reality is the vast majority of the people who were alive in 1940 were alive in 1950, it wasn't the age of the Black Death or something, quit being so ridiculous. What a bunch of drama queens.
Only in absolute numbers. In relative numbers, there where much deadlier wars in the past, i.e. the 30 years war. As Pinker ruled in A History of Violance, the 20. Century was quite peaceful in comparison to those before.
Which war the european civil war,when the european tribes were fighting.Reality is what did mozt of the world get after both "world wars" we got nothing.Most of the countries were colonised.I guarantee you it was all good in most of the world.
lol it's a fact that Laughter and Joy were invented in the 1970s before that no one ever had fun or lived good lives, it was just impossible. anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. and you can take that to fact to the bank.
Women had opinions back then. The problem she would be facing is a 50% chance of being in a world war and a 50% chance of being in a world directly following a world war.
1940’s- B*mbs consistently dropping, air raid sirens booming, while you & everyone around you runs to an air raid shelter to survive. Random buildings & roads around the city destroyed. No one had the power to destroy an entire country despite many years of consistent b*mbs being dropped. Now- No b*mbs dropped, but the threat of them being dropped, & there’s a high chance if anyone does drop [even a couple] you haven’t got access to a secure enough shelter to survive. Most likely, no city left. Certain countries have the power to destroy other countries. Basic comparison- now, I’m curious, which one people would rather pick...
No internet, a world war, toiling in a factory all night long, no appliances to help with chores, having to cook all your meals yourself, being catcalled every time you walk around in public, and limited rights as a woman. She's nuts.
@@braceyourselvesfortruth2492 Do you have a source to back up this statement? People didn't have anesthesia back then not even for childbirth. They had all sorts of diseases that we've since eradicated or have cures for. Women didn't have rights. How exactly were they happier?
@@k.m.9801 they were limited to traditional roles which itself is limiting. Try being a divorced woman back in those times. Husband beats you regularly but you have to stay because you were a traditional woman who had no skills and most likely no post secondary education
@@rickwelch8464 it served us very well. Femenism has forced two working parents which takes child rearing further away from the parents and doubled the tax cattle. Single motherhood has sky rocketed and many studies have show the adverse affect that has on children. Femenism gave corporations the work force they needed and has worked to destroy the nuclear family and we fell for it.
@@password6025 You should go back one step further. If companies paid enough for one person to afford a family, there would be much less of that happening. You were probably also cool with women not voting too?Who are you or anyone else to stop a woman from doing what she wants?
yup; very true! but if she’d said anything close to that, we wouldn’t be here, watching this perfect response to her short-sighted, privilege-soaked foolishness. 😬🤓
@zeldapro18 Just because YOU don't see something good about a time period, doesn't mean everyone thinks that way. If you think everyone was just 24/7 miserable, then I have a bridge to sell you.
My grandmother basically had zero say in how her life turned out. She got pregnant and had to marry. Then she had to become a housewife. Then she had to have more children. She wanted a career, but the closest she could get was working in retail when her children were old enough. It made her a bitter woman, right until the end. Even my mother didn’t get to make her own choices, since she wanted children, but was a lesbian. She had to marry in order to have us. Let’s not go back to the 49s, please and thank you
I love that you shared that with us! Too bad you couldn’t post any pics of her with the other amazing pioneering hero’s of women’s baseball! I hope she was able to share her memories with you. Such a really neat thing! 🤗🫶
Sorry, but womens lib, called the workforce, in 1940, took pver war production, test pilots, testing arms etc, their opinion was valued, thanx to Mrs Roosevelt.❤😊
Mine was very much one to have her own strong opinion about things & she was a wife in the 1940’s but also a working single mother since my grandfather didn’t do anything to contribute so she divorced him. She lived quite an amazing life but always had a good job, tons of friends & the chance to watch her daughter’s children grow up…but to the last moments of consciousness before they put her in a coma she had a strong opinion especially about what she wanted to have happen when she passed away so to the very end she was not shy about voicing her opinion. I have another grandmother that was very opinionated & she was a housewife in the 1940’s & wasn’t shy about voicing her opinion either. For women nowadays that want to act more like a 1940’s housewife I don’t see a problem it’s their choice.
Definitely would have been an interesting time. My mother-in law was 18 in 1940 and lived in England. She learned to weld in an aircraft factory. She enjoyed that time. Had lot's of great stories about it.
Just like people are enjoying their lives now, creating stories about their lives. It's simple psychology. It's also utterly hilarious to me people compare their lives to one they've never personally lived as if they somehow can even compare? People will say they can though, we've compared our lives with everyone and every generation since the beginning of time.
The Battle for Britain was going on while your mother in law worked. Bombs dropping on London. Children being displaced throughout the countryside for safety.
@@codyrebelcb only now we have shittier music, television, and movies. Culture as a whole has degenerated. The culture back then was way better...and I rather be a stay at home mom instead of having to work a full time 40 hour a week job and still have to come home and be a fucken mom!!!!!!!! Shit has only gotten worse, IDC how much you young idiots try to act like shit is so much better today than it was back then...........
My mom grew up in the 1940s and she said that is rubbish, as you are not the first person to make such statements. She had opinions, her mom had opinions and as she said to me, the men knew to listen to their wives because women have always known how to motivate their husbands. I knew my mom to be a VERY opinionated person. She did not just get that way after the 1940s she was like that her whole life. Her dad called her spitfire because she was little but she was loud. She was 4'11" and I was afraid of her.
Your mom talk about what it's like not being allowed a bank account, a credit card, to say no to your husband if he wanted sex, not being allowed to buy contraception, not to be allowed on a jury? Because none of those were allowed in America until the 70s
@@dermaspaceSC Somehow, not a single thing you just listed is actually true, that's an exploit in and of itself. I think it's also funny how miserable a life must be to boil down an entire existence to ''having a bank account and credit card'', ''saying no to sex'', ''having contraception'' and ''being allowed on a jury''. Like... wow, is that all life has to offer to you? Having debts, saying no to sex, having no children and being part of the single most boring legal task in existence? Geez
@@ToolFist598 no...a woman could not legally refuse her husband sex until the 70s. So not it hasn't always been illegal. And if you think not having any financial freedom is fun, I encourage you to explore that option, esp with someone who doesn't believe in your bodily autonomy.
I often think, I wish I lived in the 1920s. BUT ONLY FOR THE CLOTHES AND NOTHING ELSE. Lol. I want 1920s fashion to come back in a massive way. Nothing else.
@vanMisthoven why would that matter? Aside from civil issues and the equality act, black families were doing better as a household and a unit then they are now.
I don't think the latter half of the 40s were that bad, and the 50s were great. Post war economic boom, you could work your way through school on a part time summer job, you could actually buy a house... If she wouldn't mind being a house wife I don't see the issue.
My great-grandmother was the matriarch, well respected, she voiced opinions and was listened to, families tended to have tight bonds, streets even in Harlom and New York were safe, and everyone knew what a woman was 🤔
My grandmother became a widow in the 60's... she got a job in repair to support her children. She was required to wear a regular dress while her male colleagues wore blue-jean overalls to protect their skin. This Lady does not realize the BS women have overcome since then.... (and this was 20 years after that time..)
Yeah, now women abort their children, leave their husbands because there is no "spark", and raise boys without fathers who grow up to be antifa members and school shooters. We sure have advanced, but yeah wearing a dress must have been TERRIBLE.
Nah lol the family unit was much more stable back then and crime was lower father's were in the house homosexuality was practically unheard of a lot of modern ills are product of single mother households and women being given power over men.
In the 1940s women were considered property, if a woman was beaten and police came to the door, they would walk away it was considered a domestic matter and that the woman needed to be taught a lesson. Just one of the many things this girl would have to look forward to when she invents that time machine.
And here comes the feminist propaganda to defame and demonize a socially better adjusted era than the misandrist feminist hell hole we live in today. The majority of women were quite happy and adjusted. It was the man's job to do certain things and it was her job to support him. Only the ungrateful and bitter complained and they complained for the wrong reasons. Mainly because they couldn't act out their anti-social impulses.
In the 1940s men were considered government property as they drafted them and sent them to fight and often die in WWII (or in other instances WWI, Korea, Vietnam).
Notice how YT's censorship algorithm has been jacked up several notches since January 1. Misandry gets a free pass but, any rebuttal is blocked from view.
I mean, unless you're poor. Enjoy getting your skivvies made out of whatever you/your wife/mom can get. Things like reused burlap sacks. Not facetious here, some of my late father's earliest memories involved how horrible those "shorts" felt.
Naw I like my excessively modern breathable, machine washable, cheap ass clothes. Though we are 80 years in the future and women got opinions but cost them their pockets. 😓
For half of the 1940s she would've been in a factory making supplies for soldiers in WW2.
My grandmother worked in a factory during WWII, and she was proud of that, so what's your point?
@@fredgarvin716 the point is she probably isn’t taking that into account when saying she wants to live in the 1940’s. mainly basing that idea on fashion & “simple times”. Meanwhile avoiding the problematic parts of the 40’s such as WWII & the chronic lynching of black people (most often falsely accused of harassment by the women she is idealizing)
@@Bea-a-deer THAT PART...
@@fredgarvin716 way to personalize something, wanker.
She might have been breathing in asbestos daily working in that factory working without many of the safety regulations we have today.
My great grandmother died of tuberculosis in the 1940s a week after her sixteen year old son died serving in WWII. Those were the days ✨
My great grandmother and her son went in a similar way. So yes those were the days.
not to mention genocide, internment camps, unable to vote, mandatory work (finally!) for a few years then get fired without warning half way through the decade
Today , Drug overdose claims more kids than TB did in any year of the 1940s.
That is so sad 😞
@@spookytaco666Laugh through the pain like this comment poster does
A bank account is another thing she wouldn'ta had.
I mean, men made the money, but women generally took care/divvied up the finances back then
@@AtetrigramsYea for some reason women nowadays think it’s a privilege and a honor to slave away your life for Jewish paper dollars 🤡 they think it’s better than raising a living family.
@@AtetrigramsAnd if a woman wanted to leave her marriage, did she then have any options or autonomy? No.
This is only an issue if you end up with a trash ass man…
@@ifyouknowyouknow6964 Yes, and there are and were many “trash ass men”…so what’s your point?
In the 1940s when that happened women had *literally* no options. They were stuck.
She had five thousand years of human story and still managed to pick some of the worst hits we've ever put out.
There's 12,000 (anything before that is prehistory) but yes.
it's been pretty rough for ladies up until like the 70s or 80s
(male) of go in the medieval times because it would be cool. if figure out how to make soap and stuff tho
My wife's grandmother lived in a stairwell in the 1940's for 5$ a week while her husband was at Midway. People had to walk through her "room" to go up and down the stairs and the men upstairs watched her change. She worked in a factory making tanks for 60+ hrs a week. Good luck with that 1940's thing girl.
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@@Sldejo$5
@@dfc666 $4.694 before sales tax.
@@stevelucky7579 😂
@@stevelucky7579Sales tax on a wage? Have you never worked?
In the 1940s my aunt and her mom worked in cotton fields, in Arizona, and went home to a shack with no a/c.
@JuneBug_87 Southwest. On on day 20 something of temps over 110, I'm wishing I lived in a much cooler area. 🥵
Ahhhh good times.
In the 1920's, both my grandfathers escaped Stalin's Ukraine starving to death, came to America legally, with 0 handouts, and became coal miners in Pa.,
both dead at age 60.
@@JimmyTony-uu2xsso they made it and were successful in creating a new life and future for your family, good for them and especially now I’m sure you are glad they did. Imagine having to deal with either of those crazy sides rn in Western Europe
My great uncle didn’t make it the 1940’s because he got killed in the trenches, he also didn’t have AC and had to work on a farm before he got enlisted
Turn off her air conditioning and she will change her mind
😂
There was air conditioning back then but mostly in theaters and stores.
Idk my experience is America could go without ac for a month and climate change crap will be out the window. Most Americans are used to 70 degrees because they spend most of their time inside. They step outside into NORMAL 90 degree weather and it takes their breath away. I work in a shop thats ten degrees warmer than outside. It’s almost sweat shirt time when it’s 80 degrees. Obviously elderly can’t just turn off the ac but the young can. Plus elderly nowadays remembers no ac so they have done their time without.
@@winstonsmith2766Exactly,you wouldn’t miss what you never had.I grew up without a/c and I lived plus,it was a much more innocent time then.Families were closer,music was not trash and people stayed in the closet.Sorry,but that’s how I feel.I’d take the 40s over this time period for sure!
@@jeanmcginnis9804 You peaked in high school, simple as. Every single person who bitches about how the world 'used to be good' peaked in high school.
"Well, I didn't mean like that. I just meant I like the music from the 40's."
Just like a woman, cherry pick the good and leave the rest.
She wants the weather, the gas prices and the times when cars were beautiful and well made. That's pretty much it, everything else was way worse then
@@Teddy-fm9ntIs that just like a woman or ANYONE who thinks thr old days were better
@@Teddy-fm9nt Just like people cherry pick the negatives to prove her wrong.
If I had a time machine I'd take you back to 1948 with me.
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. She's 100% romanticized that period of history
And you 0% understand why she did.
@@bigguy7353 telling people they're wrong without elaboration doesn't make you a beacon of "logic and truth", be better.
My parents were depression babies. And they lived with rationed supplies. Like you you got a 5 pound bag of white sugar for a month. But that 5 pounds was used for cooking and baking and for the kids cereal and for your coffee. That sugar is used fast. My Grandpa would get 2 used and 2 new tire inter tubes a year. He was a farmer with plenty of machinery to work the land. So he would mend those inter tubes often. And when keep repairing them putting patches upon patches to make due. Until there were no more places he could put any more patches on. Then after he had a few old inter tubes he and my great Uncle’s would all gather up their old tubes and bring them over. And my Grandpa and Great Uncles and my Great Grandpa would melt those old tubes in a huge melting pot and would fix EVERYONES shoes. Painting the melted rubber on the bottoms of the shoes to extend the life of the shoes and taking a ripped piece of newspaper and holding it against where the leather came off the sole of the shoe and paint rubber over the hole or rip in the shoe, sometimes doing 4 to 6 layers. And you kept those shoes until the youngest kid couldn’t wear them anymore. And women and girls wore potato sack dresses and potato sack shirts and pants. Then WE2 started and things were rationed even more. You also mended clothes until you didn’t have a spot to put a patch on. It didn’t matter if your legs were longer than your pants. You wore those pants until Mom let them out as much as she could. Only when those pants were so tight around your middle and no one else had kids pants that were bigger did you get either pants OR mom bought fabric to make you a pair. And she would make as many pairs of pants and skirts as she could get out of that piece of fabric. My Mom’s side were farmers, My Dad side were handy men and gas station owner. So Moms side always had plenty of food Dads side struggled. The kids always got to eat first, then Grandma and Grandpa ate what was left.
@Mama M I grew up hearing similar stories from my grandparents and it made it so much more real for me than just studying the subject in school. My grandpa was incredibly intelligent but only had an eighth grade education because he had to quit school to help his family survive. I definitely admire them for their fortitude and certainly wouldn't romanticize that period of time because I like the fashion, etc.
@@Idontwant1My grandfather waa pretty wealthy. He ran a successful trucking company, and he owned a huge farm. My dad and his sisters didn't suffer at all during the Depression or WW2.
Of all the decades in the housewife era to pick, and she chose the one where the first half was the 2nd* most brutal war of human history.
If that war was fought today we would lose due to all the gen z pansy snowflakes
@@Coffeendonutsweellll with our current technology any past wars would be a breeze but I'm assuming thats not what you really mean. Even so today's US military is still extremely powerful even with the current "social justice" that is being taught to our soldiers.
@@Coffeendonutslmao okay bro
@@Coffeendonutslol bro, those panzy snowflakes will be flying drones up your ass from their bedrooms. Youre going to be the fodder on the battlefield.
@@Coffeendonutssame as your pansy generation lost vietnam, iraq and afghanistan?
She's oddly dressed for someone who wants to work in a factory for 10 to 12 hours a day.
Nope women didn't work then
@@gofigure84Uhm... Are you that dumb? The whole workforce was comprised of women for several years in the 40's because of WW2. The Rosey Rivets posters were released in like 1943.
You're thinking industrial revolution. Too far back. 1840s, not 19 lol
@@InsomniacDoggo ... No, they're not.
WWII occurred during the 1940s and I believe with the draft there was a shortage of factory workers. So for multiple reasons women worked in factories
My grandmother had to pool ration tickets (illegally) just to get enough silk to make her wedding dress; her veil was machine netting. She also had to manually grind caster sugar into icing sugar for the wedding cake. When my uncle was born in 1948 (rationing existed here til ‘55), she had to donate to the breastmilk bank due to the lack of formula supply. It may seem like semantics, but it’s important for people to realise that 40’s era clothing, music and kitsch, are not just fashion and pop culture … they are byproducts of austerity and deprivation. By all means, celebrate those elements in honour of those who survived it, but reflect on where they came from first.
Excellent perspective. Thank you.
You do realize many people still live like this today? This isn't an obsession with clothes or music. It's a want to return to traditional values and simpler way of living. Not everyone can afford to live in modernity. I'm a millennial but was raised in a house with no tv, no radio, no computer, no microwave. We grew most of our food and then canned/froze it to last a couple years. Most food was made from scratch. We made our own butter, cheese, mustard, ketchup and mayo. My mom sewed all of my clothes. Neighbors had chickens and cows. Family members hunted. We made our own soaps, candles, lotions. My grandfather and father built much of the furniture I still use today. I continue to do all of these things as an adult and pass the knowledge to my daughter.. Not everyone can afford to buy everything they need. Making stuff yourself lets you be less reliant on the government and have a large family on a lower middle class salary. None of my grandparents ever had to deal with the ration cards because they knew how to grow a lot of food on 1/3 acre and hunt/fish and preserve food.
@@VictoriaReadsReddit I admire anyone who strives to exist simply and self-sufficiently and there are many appealing cultural qualities to that sort of lifestyle, especially against all the 'noise' of the modern world - for the most part nowadays, though, it is a **choice** of lifestyle that people adopt voluntarily. Whereas in the 1940s, men and women were forced into austerity because of WWII and the deprivation that existed as a result; they didn't choose to live that way, they had to. More specifically, had the Depression or the War never happened, fashion, music and culture of that period would've been significantly different. The point I'm trying to make is, the way you were brought up is not the same as living in the 1940s, like this woman desires - it's **similar** , but not the same, because it's for entirely different reasons.
@@VictoriaReadsRedditdid you grow your computer or smartphone from scratch? 😂
Very eloquently put.
And she'd be traumatized when she gets a telegram or the chaplain pays a visit saying her boyfriend or husband or family member died in combat.
Nope no telegrams. Those notices during War War 2 where hand delivered. Someone told you face to face you loved one had perished.
Chaplains didn’t become a thing until the Vietnam War to tell loved ones they were dead. They sent a telegram.
How's that any different than now a days?
Shit, chicks now a days be traumatized by anything
Pretty suree domestic abuse and domestic rape were bigger problems back then tio
Those were the days: WWII, epidemics of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, influenza.....I was born in 1949 and my childhood memories consist of being sick.
One awful illness after another. There was a reason mothers couldnt work outside of the home: somebody had to stay home with a sick kid. And somebody was ALWAYS sick.
When chickenpox went through my own family, the three of them didnt get it at the same time, each one caught it in turn, so it was 6 weeks of hell.
funny how the 1940s defenders won't go near your comment which means you're on to something.
Funn how i have tons of family that are as old as you and they say thats not true. There mothers didnt work outside the home because they had to cook all day and do laundry and clean. Everyone wasnt constantly sick. People were generally healthier and stronger then than now.
I was born In 1950 and it was much better than now.
@@UncomplicatedFellowFunny how people have different experiences and that these things actually happened in the 1940's. Also funny that your family isn't confirmed as the norm nor do they make up the majority of people in the 1940's, which doesn't qualify them to determine whether this is a lie or not, even more so because they've apparently never gone through the struggles 1940 had to offer. The only aspect of health that was superior in the 1940's is diet wise, because there were rations and fat shaming. We have the strongest, most advanced medicines and technology then we did any other point in time.
We have all of that today
She could have had an opinion, no one but her would know about it though.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Oml 😂😭
I mean she could have told her psychiatrist after they put her away for having an opinion
LMFAOOO
@@Christina-jr7ggman they would of just put a needle in her barin
I wish I lived in present day with a 1940s aesthetic.
I feel the same way about the period from 1960 to '65. I want modern amenities with the old school aesthetic
@@Dashriprock4 indeed. Fallout style
@@Dashriprock4 I like the early to mid-Sixties fashion, especially in regards to women.
(German anthem plays)
@@justinwright9668 Also...
Soyuz nyerushimi, svobodnik respublik....
I lived through the forties, I'm 85. If she developed toothache then she would wish herself back to the 2000s immediately
that's definitely a fair point. but people in this video are ridiculing her for wanting to live then based upon the idea of women supposedly not having rights in the 1940's.
Why bad dentist? They sure had painkillers back then lol
@@nybergsgarageamong other things. Notice he said "one of the many things you wouldn't have had"
They could have treated the toothache with one of the multiple narcotics that were freely available back then.
@@tcbowen12 that was the focus of his response however. an it was untrue, as women DID have an opinion then.
In the 1940’s my great grandma was 15 years old working in an airplane factory while her future husband was on an aircraft carrier keeping aircraft flying to beat the imperial Japanese navy.
Not all of the 1940s though eh lol
Yep, these kids havent had a History Lesson, or they would know better.
I mean, she probably still has to work in a factory today
And we're they depressed, on anxiety drugs, did society tell them they had to mutilate their bodies to fit in? Were they proud of their country?
@@thelatearthurmorgan6158 They were pretty depressed in the 30s 😏
My grandma lived in the 1940s. I see a lot of myself in my grandma, which makes me so glad I wasn't alive then. Both of us have terrible anxiety, but she didn't have any money or resources or medication to address it.
She was so worried about being a bad housewife, because she wasn't a good cook or good at sewing etc. But when she finally worked (her husband was disappointed, but they needed the money) her coworkers have told me she pretty much ran that office, even though officially she was a secretary.
I'm so glad I have the opportunities and options (and psychological medications!) that I do now.
❤
But you have the same issues she did…
Me too…..
Psych meds are poison.
@@sierrag4221agreed. Quit cold turkey. I felt so numb and depressed on them that I couldn’t take it anymore.
There's a old joke among historians when asked what time period we want to live in the answer is always this one
I’d rather live in the 90s and 2000’s than right now. Standard of living was better, economy was better, things were more adorable, and we didn’t have social media. Tell me I’m wrong and it wasn’t better.
@@jsilva7005 Only problem I have with that, I wouldn't want to be traumatized by 911. I was born in 2008. My older sister told me about it and I was TERRIFIED. I still to this day don't fuck with planes.
@@MWNTI_Studios I was 11 when 9/11 happened. I saw it on TV before I went to school. I remember telling my mom what was happening while she was making me breakfast and she just said, “Ok come eat” She didn’t even register what I said until I told her to come watch the TV. What happened was very sad, but unless you were in the city or had a family member in a plane you wouldn’t have been traumatized. I was 15 when MySpace became a thing. It was Facebook before Facebook existed. And when I got to college, Facebook was just taking off. Let me tell you right now, high school and college were so much more fun when people were not obsessed with social media. People weren’t recording every single thing. There were no stupid tik tok trends. We lived more in the moment.
It’s crazy how far technology has come. When we first got a computer the internet was dial up. That means that we didn’t have internet 24/7. If we wanted to use the internet, we had to unplug or phone landline and wait like 60 seconds for it to connect.
As cool as technology is, I would say it hasn’t improved my quality of life. And I would gladly go back to the early 2000’s when the internet was just getting started. On top of that everything was significantly more affordable. In 1998, my parents bought their house for $50,000. That same house today costs $700,000. It’s ridiculous.
@@jsilva7005The 1990's: Pure Heaven❤❤!!!😢
I’m a 90 year old woman; I worked in a shop to help our men preserve our lifestyle. We were all anxious about what could happen if we did not succeed.
Bless you ma'am 🙏🏾
Yeah, but u like having my own bank account in my name and it being legal. You all can run your household as you like.
Back to the farm, wish more of you went back farming honestly
Thank you for all you did ma’am! My mom is 87. That’s why people of your generation are known as “The Greatest Generation”. Everyone sacrificed for the good of their country and each other. Today’s young adults…very sad that they have no respect for what you all did for them.
@@kimwidol that's the truth. These know-it-alls today think they know everything and just soak up the b.s. they are fed. The 40's was a time that will never happen again. WWII was raging and most men had to go. Even my grandfather was called and he was in his late 30's and low on the list. But, he answered the call. My mom was born 1 week after he left. She met her Dad when she was 2 but she was lucky cause a lot of men never came home.
With a shortage of men, women picked up the slack and ran this country and kept the home fires burning. With out the women doing this, we would have lost. Not all women who picked up the slack were single, many wives with children did too. That's where daycares got their start. My family still has the letters that my grandfather sent home to my grandmother during the war.
*SMACK*. “Get it together, woman!”
Now make me some dinner ..
Smack dat ass mmmm
😂. snorting
That's not real life.
This is Bullshit !!! This lady know !!
And you have absolutely no idea !! That is why you Dress like a ((((( slob that just rolled out from under the Bed )))
Facts are there and we all see it !! (((( Fact ))))
My grandmother was born in the 1920’s and recalls life in her 20’s. My grandmother was born in a different country where bride kidnapping was an actual thing. The stories that her friends, relatives and herself told were mind blowing. My grandmother was dating my grandfather when she heard a rumor from a close friend that someone was planning on coming for her. She confided in my grandfather and he married her to save her from it. Her sister was saved by their uncle and brother who witnessed a man pulling and dragging her from the front of the house. What a time to live in.
my grandma's aunt was kidnapped at knifepoint in the 40s
That bridenapping sounds more like a mongoloid-khazakh thing than something that comes from a more Western/Christian society
@@tbones8733guess you don’t know about the founding of Rome
That sounds horrifying. People need to be just glad we don't have to live through the things our ancestors had to live through. At least we have a choice. Why can't she just be a housewife and dress like it and still have a right to do it.
@@tbones8733 Erm... uh.. well.. it's not like it was considered a good thing even back then.
It just happened. A lot.
She’s obviously had a very entitled life to wish that! Can someone please explain to her that she can wear the clothes, listen to the music of the 40’s etc here in 2024!
other way around, this comment section is full of entitled people getting mad that she can look a the past and see an objectively better living standard than today
@@patrickderp1044 Yea, people are weirdly defensive about her preference.
but it¨s not objectively better :P i hope you learn what the word ''objective'' mean some day @@patrickderp1044
I have seen re-enactments of the American Ciil War, a very nasty time. I can attest that the women had style (never mind that a common cause of death for women then was that they burned to death as their long dresses got drawn into a fireplace or stove).
Medicine was still rudimentary, and dysentery was commonplace.
It really wasn’t a better living standard, you just expected less. There was one phone in the house only. One car only. One TV only. Your closet could fit about three dresses. Two pairs of pants and about four pair of shoes. You ate out maybe once every three or four months for a special occasion.
She likes the life depicted by ads in the 1950s
Total bullshit. You are regurgitating fairytales. Women had well founded opinions then and they voiced them. I knew many who would make this immutable fact clear to you. They ran the house and were decision makers for most of the household’s concerns.
She is ignorant. All she wants is the fashion and glamour depicted in movies and perhaps to be taken care of by a husband. It is an escape fantasy. The reality of life before women's rights would hit her...hard.
Ah, yes, the nuclear family.
She should probably just be Amish then.
@@ShineKazamaKiryu don't forget about leaded gasoline and paint
Women in the 40s were tougher than men today
People don't know what true strength is and it ain't measured in bench press. People are so easily manipulate and weak minded. There all yes people! This is how they think "oh, wise government and society tell me how to think and live. I am unable to think for myself. I must rely all the systems to survive. I can't function with out the assistance of the Government." That is how large portions people are today. mindless yes people who do as there told. I believe a lot of your statement holds true.
Lol. No
Everyone was
Not to be rude, but I think they had to be. Or else they'd end up on the streets and probably die from the common cold or a simple scratch infection that plain old penicillin could have cured.
@@Thor.Jorgensen you do know that penicillin was available in the 40s
My Nanna was born in 1912, worked to support her two sons throughout the 30s, 40’s and 50s and looked after everyone around her till the day she died in 1999. She was the Matriarch, most respected member in our family, called all the shots, never took no crap, held everything together. Women of the 40’s were incredible humans.
My late granny was born 2 years later. She had 2 kids of her own and adopted 6 others including my mom.
Yeah modern women are terrified of that form of power and respect..
modern women have forgotten how to do that. they accept the bullshit they are told about how awful everything was.
perfect? no. dystopian hell? also no.
@@HANKHILLFORTXGOVERNOR The only modern woman you've ever met is your mom sit the fuck down
Thank you! I sooo agree with you!
She don't need opinions, she got the heavies
My granny worked making shells for WW2 one of the best women I ever met. The person I miss the most.
Grandma’s kick butt
Same with my grand mom only she was a QA inspector for machine guns at a war munitions plant.
Yo granny STILL ain't have an opinion. 😂
Women had opinions in the 1940’s. They might’ve not been taken seriously in a lot of cases however, we wouldn’t be here today if somebody wasn’t listening to women’s opinions in the 1940s.
Who is this girl in the vidéo? Channel? Tik tok?
two words - AIR CONDITIONING
See. Now this is a good argument against it.
I still don't use air conditioners and I live in the dust bowl of Canada. What's wrong with opening some windows and turning on a fan if need be? I don't run my AC in my car and I removed the AC in my RV. It's a complete waste of power. I don't run a furnace either. My heat, cooking and hot water are all done by wood burning stove. I harvest my wood, carry my wood, cut my logs and build my fire daily. I live in -40°C in the winter and +35°C in the summer.
Welcome to Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
Oh yeah...and I'm a 35 y\o woman.
@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo yeah I live in Texas and I’d like to see you live like that here 😂
@@greenwithenvee2337
Did you know that the bus leaves every hour?
@@keithb6717 nah I’m staying in Texas. Rest of the country is turning into liberal shitholes.
Correction: She'd like to be an upper class rich white woman in the 1940s.
Also with a kind husband who had fairly progressive views about women, and also wasn't a mean alcoholic.
@@somethingelse4424Where men not kind back then and all alcoholics?
@@sukaenacornelius9285 No, but if you were unlucky enough to be married to one... You didn't have a lot of options under the law.
@@somethingelse4424 Damn, I always considered older times in America were better, more affordable, nicer people and less unhinged ones. I feel like today for many women and men its worse, usually self inflicted though. When I went to an American University, my peers were always drunk or doing something illegal. Or just unhinged. Not all but too many for my liking.
@@sukaenacornelius9285 Well did you live in the 40's in the US... Or any country? You're doing the same thing as the woman in the video and idealizing a time period that you weren't even alive during.
One of my favorite authors said:"Through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia everything looks romantic, even the guillotine"
This applies here.
You want to be a stay at home wife - go for it. Everyone can choose how he wants to live, but don't sell us bullshit like you figured out the laws of the universe.
but it doesnt apply to segregation magically
In the 1940s, my grandfather was drafted and sent to the European Theater, my pregnant grandmother lost the tavern they owned because a woman wasn't legally allowed to own and operate a business. She gave birth to my mother and had to move in with her family because she couldn't afford to live on her own and begin raising a child. Things were rationed, pennies were made of lead because copper was diverted for use in ammunition production and people were still dying from polio, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Yeah, the good ol' 1940s.
What is the European Theater? Cause it's sounds like he got drafted into the movies..
@@albu1168"Theater of war" not a theater where plays are performed. Theater in this sense just means "war zone."
Steel, not lead.
@@albu1168It means his grandfather was sent to fight in Europe in WW2
@@NottherealLuciferohhh dam thankfully he didn't get forced to do a play ! Sounds horrible
As she stands in front of a double door stainless steel refrigerator . With a water dispenser
😂😂 Not in a line with a ration book for an ounce of lard etc. I expect theres indoor plumbing, shower, laundry room too, not weekly trip to public baths and sheets waiting to be collected by the 'bag wash" company.
I'd love to see her go into a radar station and reconfigure the computers and antennae and dishes, to invent wi fi internet before the internet so she can continue posting her "Tradwife RUclips Shorts"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
i think most whites would happily go back to 1940s tech if we could go back to 1940s demographics
You want women like her or you want a trifling hoe that ain’t gonna make you a sandwich?
Ah yes the 1940's when two of my Great Aunties had to drop out of school in 8th Grade to work at the American Thread company making Parachutes with my Great Grandmother, who had lost her husband to Meningitis a few years before, while my Grandmother was in the Shriners hospital because she had contracted Polio and needed 15 surgeries between the ages of 4-15..
What a blissful time!
Not to mention Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps, the Holocaust and The Atom Bomb.
Liking an Era's Clothing, Music and Art are not the same as Wanting to live in that time.
People are silly!
She has the ability to Cosplay as the 1940's however send her back and I doubt she'd be singing the same tune!
This comment deserves more eyes.
Jim crow was in the 60s and it was democrats....
@@Drummerchick2003Jim Crow lasted for nearly 100 years, starting in the 1870s and ending in 1968.
@@Drummerchick2003look i get it youre a conservative but you dont have to announce to the world you are retarded. Just say you vote republican. Its easier to type and gets the same point across.
Yo I remember Jim Crow from dumbo
I was brought up in a family where two generations lived through the 1940s. While a lot of our conversations and family story telling pivoted on that decade no one ever uttered the desire to re-live that era.
Exactly. My mother was born in the 1930’s and has never said she wishes it was still the 1940’s. She became a nurse and described catarac surgeries in the 1950’s this way - you surgically removed the cataracts then placed the patient’s head between two sandbags and they laid there like that for two weeks while their eyes healed. No thanks! If you got them earlier, you just went blind.
In the 1940s, my grandmother knew everyone in this small town. She was "just" a war widow, but when she died we got hundreds of cards from people I never heard of.
9 things women could not do before 1971.
Women could not get a credit card in their own name and serve on the front lines in 1971. They could get fired for getting pregnant, they could not take legal action against workplace sexual harassment, they paid more in health insurance and they were unable to take their husbands to court for rape. It is not 100% accurate that women couldn't serve on juries and get an Ivy League education or contraception.
Right now im only guessing it was even worse in 1941...
From men lol
Talk about “missed the point” 🤦♂️
And all he had to do was die. Alot less work lets give it a try
@@rogerdavila6988 "suck-machine" was a hell-of-a woman
*When people make an aesthetic their entire personality*
When people type in run on sentences lol. Just playing
@@user-pz2ji6lp1i I put asterocs not knowing what it did. Find someone else to get your gotcha off of ya fkn loser.
And gender
People mistake a lot of things as personality traits
Gun Ownership
Food
Gender
Sexuality
Skincolor
Religion
Politics
etc.
Yeah i was thinking the same thing, this is basically the exact same as the Goth chick but on the opposite end of the spectrum
My mom had many hard war stories, living in black out at night, air raids, shortage food, and product. Rationing of their entire lives. Men off to war for months at a time. Many never returned. Wow this girl needs a history lesson!
Even without war it was hard for most. And that´s only considering USA and Europe, in third world countries it was very hellish.
@Wen6543 well how it seems to have gone, the states is like a 3rd world country w electronics
@@Wen6543crazy part is that the war was also fought in many third world countries. Phillipines, Indonesia, and many other areas of the pacific and even throughout North Africa. Not taking away from your claim but just adding to it since a lot of people may not know that. The scope of WWII was unparalleled. But like said it would be hard enough without the war
@@aquastar5314that’s something that only people who’ve never left the U.S. would say 😂. Living conditions in a third world country are significantly different. You can’t drink the water in many areas, have to pay to use the bathroom and can’t flush toilet paper only throw it in the trash for starters. And shower using a bucket and sponge. I highly recommend traveling and getting to experience other cultures though. I’ve been through the boondocks of the Philippines they’re very poor but some of the nicest, happiest people you’ll ever meet.
@@surfjax23 Come to the UK as the Tories have brought much of that back in, you now have to pay to use a public toilet, and we have 1 in 4 children living in extream poverty, like going without food for days and sleeping on the streets, and now we have houdrads of young children with rickets and osteomalacia, and 1 in 3 families needing to use food banks, and half of the elderly pensioners going without heating as it's just way to expensive.
I talked to my grandmother about the 1940s and she said the sense of togetherness was amazing during the war. She was from a very poor family and my grandad worked in an aircraft factory which was repeatedly bombed with horrific loss of life (before idiots come at me with some nonsense)
What she actually wishes is that she could live in the fantasized version of the 1940’s she created in her head..
Exactly. I'm tired of people romanticizing those days nearly a century later.
Bingo
The problem is an entire political party in the US is crafting these narratives thru word of mouth. Scarier yet they often have zero clue how naive and inaccurate their views are.
Well duh. She's not talking about wanting to be in the war and crime that went on then
I think she likes the clothing style of the period. Some of them are coming back, but everything is made so cheaply these days. It’s difficult to find something well-made and affordable for the average person.
My ex says this all the time too. she wouldn't last a single day.
I don't normally encourage messaging an ex but i must know... (gonna paste my comment of questions here)
ALL THE TYPOS/MISSED SPACES IN THIS POST ARE BECAUSE RUclips BLOCKED ME SAYING IT OTHERWISE
I would unalivesomeone to ask her these: Could she have a bank account? An opinion? A right to not be beaten? A blackmale friend? A man??? (SORRY HE BUSY BEING UNALIVEDIN EUROPE)
Could she be a housewife? (Sorry get a job to help the wareffort) could she buy food? Sorry it's scarce, there's a war on. Actually that applies to every supply she wants.
Now that she is okay with that, let's get on withnuking japan TWICE and unalivr 6million Jews+30 million russians.
*Yay, now your man is back. He has one leg and no pen15 and cant get a job and has INSANE PTSD from burning Japanese people alive and watching ALL OF HIS FRIENDS BEUNALIVED. He also cant hear you well because of all theexplosions and bulletsand his PTSD makes him blame you for that and beat you extra for it. But at least you can run from beatings because HE HAS ONE LEG and needs 24/7 care with no income*
F me. This is such a stupid thing to say, that it actually makes Suzie *actually look crazy for not liking pesto*
all the comments on old victorian videos of people wishing to live in that time.....got me eyerolling amillion times
My grandmother was born in 1919. She had opinions about everything! Everybody behaved around her. Good woman.
1913 for mine, she made it to 100... mainly because she was too stubborn to die (or evil, perhaps)! She was also highly opinionated, intelligent, and articulate and brow-beat my grandpa for 70 years, he was a generally quiet stoic man and he knew not to test her! It's funny what people THINK life was like in X year.
True, woman during this period, unlike popular belief was strong individuals and had strong opinions.
He is showing his ignorance once again. People have always been allowed to have opinions
My grandmother was born in 1939 and she has a beautiful cottage and a million dollar home with a massive garden and pool that she tends to everyday. She has a dog and my grandfather past away but she had 45 years of loving marriage and a lifetime of travels and stories to tell. Things weren’t perfect but she didn’t miss out.
It drives me crazy how ignorant people are about women in the past. Too right strong independant women always existed and demanded respect!
Some people have no idea how easy they've got it today.
If she knew her history, she wouldn't even thought about saying this.
She is literally the definition of what the nazi regime wanted in a woman.
She would have actually excelled in nazi Germany.
As a European I can tell you that wishing to live in the 40's is not really popular here, in any EU country...
If she has a brother I'm not sure that despite having the possibility to visit Asia or Europe free of charge, he would be ecstatic about the opportunity.
@@cold_static A time for brats.
It’s not popular in the USA either. Too many sad memories of the Second World War. Too many loved ones were lost and never came home.
@@jhancock1575 its almost like people today arent being taught our own national and world history, hm wonder what they are being taught?
I’m American and both my grandpas served in WWII. This woman simply isn’t historically literate
@@cold_static As a german I have to tell you, that this is the best joke about this topic I have ever read or heard. Seriously I am lying in my bed at night right now and can’t stop giggling.
My great grandmother told me that ww2 was the best time of her life because she was allowed to work. Her husband was at war and her children were evacuated out of Glasgow. She knew she should feel terrible but having work made her feel valued. I remind myself of this on the days I wish I wasn't at work
Think she felt that way because her work was going toward something? now our work just goes towards most time’s nothing significant like they did during ww2.
@katiePetsy Sad but true. Great story thanks.
@@AIRBORNE916 I've worked for nonprofits for 30 years. There are choices out there. But I'll bet she just liked working.
It's great that she was actually valued at work. Nowadays it seems like many employers these days don't value their workers and they simply just end up feeling like cogs in a machine
Her: "I wish I lived in the 1940s."
Dr. Strange: "Careful what you wish for, Parker."
Woah, what, how do you know my name?!
Not true. Traditional roles does not equate to not being able to have an opinion. You are brainwashed.
Woman, the world population back in 1940 was approximately 2.3 billion. World war II killed approximately 50 - 56 million people and war-related diseases and famine took out another 50 - 55 million. So you're looking at in excess of 100 million deaths or about 4% of the world's total population.
You're not taking into consideration the rationing in Britain, which was almost down at starvation level - the lack of adequate nutrition was reflected in British performances in sport for the best part of a generation. Rationing wasn't as bad in the US but...
if you were black you couldn't vote. People couldn't marry a person of another race. Because you are a woman you wouldn't have been allowed to get a loan to buy a house. There were jobs you were arbitrarily prevented from doing. You were a second class citizen. You really want to live in a time when you were a second class citizen?
@@resourcedragon it’s a meme. It’s not that deep.
@@resourcedragon you know you're in RUclips comment section and not a fucking TED talk? genius 👍
I was helping my friends repaint the walls and stain the floor in an older home they got for cheap.
There were things left, and I saw a rent check receipt from 1942 and was for 20.00 a month!
I'd never want to live in the 40s, but I'll take that rent cost 😂
$20 US in 1940 is worth $438.21 US in today's values.
@@Para1122still cheap ass rent
@@Para1122 I'd love to pay 432.00 for a big home like that.
@@Para1122 I'm paying 250% more than that in lot rent, for a trailer I fully own, in a central state.
In 1940 my Grandmother was the Matriarch of the house. They had a large garden, my Grandfather was a Steamfitter. My Grandmother started many clubs and neighborhoods associations that lasted into the 80s, years after her death. The downside was that if I was seen doing anything wrong within our Parish, my Mother knew before I got home.
People really overlook how strong so many women were back then! Yes, life was tough and many women were overlooked, but many of them were the REAL heads of household as well. My grandma was a tough woman made from cast iron haha!
Many modern feminist ideas are actually male driven ideas. Men who own the corporations want feminists buying everything you could have gotten for free as part of a family unit..
People think women were slaves and life was nothing but abusive husbands and burnt meatloaf for some reason
@@SerV689 sounds like my mom lmao “grandma wasn’t allowed to do math because she had to raise kids”
@@SerV689 Oh yea, the generation that was abused on a daily basis by their husbands but yet every time I turn around I get asked "So when are you gonna get married dear?" That just the trauma talking right? Stop with the feminist propaganda
In the 1940s my grandmother was delivering babies in the centre of London whilst the Germans were bombing . She had plenty of opinions and by God she was listened to.
In all don't expect these people yt poops to have any valuable knowledge
Don’t make this about your granny tho be realistic we all watched popeye cartoons
Issue is, your granny lived in the UK, not the US…in the US women were still often thought of like objects rather than people at that time. It was even mentioned in a U.S. Army training manual that women in the UK can outrank them, deserve to be treated with more respect, and are “more strongly opinionated”.
AMAZING
@@colinwalker6804 someone's pretending to know because they watched movies.
She wishes she lived in the fantasy version of the 1940s shown in period films. I think she is romantically attracted to the style and culture of the time as idealized by television.
Precisely this. Girl did no actual research and let Hollywood tell her how good the '40s were.
Romanticising shit makes 💵💵💵. Being honest about history makes 💸💸💸
@@SageArdor and there's nothing wrong with liking a certain period's styles and certain elements of the culture. Even celebrating the good things with personal lifestyle is fine. But wishing you lived there is different. I find the Renaissance era absolutely fascinating. I enjoy Ren fairs, i also like indoor plumbing and modern healthcare and not being a serf to some inbred lord. LOL. 😅
Well put
Yes!! The fashion from that era was so much better quality and more beautiful. Also culturally the people were very unified in the idea that if they worked together they could achieve anything. Those are great things. I wouldn’t want the negatives from that time though and there were A LOT of negatives. We’ve come a long way as a society in treating women and minorities with way more respect. We should learn from the past, take on the good and learn to not repeat the mistakes of the past generations. This is the only way to continue growing and progressing.
@@SageArdorlmao WHAT? And why do you have the opinion you have? Literally because of Hollywood. I guarantee the 1940’s depicted in 1940’s movies were way more accurate than whatever dumbass culture destroying Hollywood movies you’ve consumed in the last 20 years.
"What are you doing out of the kitchen!?"
"A lazy wife is a bad wife."
"You can't spell reprimand without a man."
Considering she filmed the video in her kitchen, I'd assume she's cognizant of the standards for women at the time.
My mom had plenty of opinions in the 1940s ... and she wasn't afraid to say them !
yeah ok.
To who?
@BP ...to the dishes, she was hand washing. Or the kitchen cabinets 😅
Lying out your fat ass.
Lying out of your obese ass
My grandmother was a badass in the 1940s. She was in college and constantly running sorority and community events. She auditioned for a small film and got a lead role, which was a huge deal in her local paper. She became a teacher and did charity work while my grandfather was serving in WW2. She had her own ambitions and career and started a family when my grandfather blessedly made it home. She later divorced and lived independently and hosted bridge nights until dementia rid her ability. She was tough but extremely kind and I admire the heck out of her. God bless you Grandma K.
Thank you for sharing 👍
I'm so sorry Dementia robbed you all, she sounds amazing! They say now dementia is the third diabetes, glandular. More help now than then, a blessing for who suffered to prevent more suffering ✝️🙏
My not white grandmother had a amazing life too. Why do people believe everyone is oppressed. When my white grandfather was a kid in the 30’s the apparent his family lived in was owned by a black lady. No college kid would believe that if I told them.
@@rickyriccijr.6746 Of course you were opressed even when I left school in the early 1990s everyone said do nursing or be a teacher.- you are black and have a brain Had no effin desire to do either. If that is your desire no big deal but not every POC female with a brain wants to nurse or teach . People should stop romanticsing crap - BTW dont even mention sexism, Sexual misconduct at work and zero chance of promotion. Life was shite.
BuT oMg WoMeN cOuLdNt Do AnYtHiNg BaCk then!!! REEEE
My mother was running a dairy, raising children, canning, and working a job while my father was serving in WWII, she fully expressed her opinion.
My grandfather served in WWII-one of many relatives who did, unfortunately. But he met and married my grandmother after he came back.
There were still restrictions on her life
Yeah she also couldn't have her own bank account, or line of credit, or divorce her husband unless the husband said so.... People really need to start reading history books.
The opinion that more women should be able to express their opinion, because it was indeed, unpopular for women to have those
@@MrTrees77
What century are you talking about? My first female ancestor to Jamestown owned 80+ acres, circa 1611.
I had several that owned land in the 1800's. My Great Grandmother Owned a Merchandise Store in Heavner, Oklahoma, Indian Territory. It had her name on it. They called her DOC.
When she moved south, there was a woman that handed her her baby in the train and said she couldn't afford to raise it. Granny took her in and raised her as one of her own and the family was always welcome and known. No fuss.
Growing up knowing several people that lived through it - they all loved the era, not the war. And don't for a second think she wouldn't have had a say in her home. An example would be Indian families, the woman doesn't speak out in public, but she RUNS the house.
It's kinda funny watching people argue that their (great)-grand fathers were treating their (great)-grand mothers like sht only to prove some girl wrong.
@@forestlily5905 I hope you realize that that isn't the case for the mayority of people throwing their grand dad under the bus by saying every women was treated like a possession in the 40's.
Besides that, calling my dad incredibly screwed up is not something i would do, even if it was true. It's almost like you're bragging that your grand father was a huge a-hole to win a pointless argument online about girl who says she'd like to live in the 40s. That's really sad, but kinda funny as well. That's exactly the point i tried to make.
"smh" lol
My mum was born in 1926. She lost part of her hearing due to sickness and needed a hearing aid. Those where pretty clunky in the 40’s. She studied to be a teacher, but as she was handicapped she wasn’t allowed to that as handicapped people was looked down upon then. By the way, the sickness that caused her the hearing problem is easily treated today.
My grandmother was born in 1910 and she said "people talk about the good ole days, don't believe it, we had to scrape for everything !", she passed at 103 and saw a LOT
People today can only view the past with modern eyes. They can't possibly imagine how the ins ands out of daily life would affect them. Life was different, social dynamics and values were different. Families used to work together, now its just shit. People are separate and alone, and have less purpose beyond their own lives.
High fever from the flu? or was it chickenpox or mumps?
My granny lost a sister to the flu. Kids just died all the time. Why do people want that?
This is the problem today, because we have quick fixes for so many things, survival of the fittest has become a thing of the past, and now the planet is overpopulated with physically and mentally handicapped. This trend has brought down the quality of people while bringing up the quality of technology.
1940s - Do i hear a woman speaking without permission????
That's not an accurate description of 1940s middle class America. Woman we're not treated that way. I have plenty of family video from the time and people are having a ball. Men and women alike laughing and talking together.
@Lisa-pw2he I have plenty of family members that told me they grew up seeing women get a swift backhand or been on the receiving end of one if the man didn't like something they said or did. They also have plenty of pictures where they look happy. I'm sure many people weren't like that but for many people that is an accurate description of the 40s, 50s and even 60s.
@@Lisa-pw2heVideo????There wasn't even super 8 back in the 40's! Was great grandaddy a movie director or something?
Most of em should shit up & make a sandwich.
@@azmiupnorth2220 and the kids got beat, and there were house fires, and community was much closer, families were much closer, everyone wasn't in their phone, we didn't have fentanyl zombies outside, you didn't need to live off of credit. There's all these pluses and minuses. It's incredible, it's almost like there was good and evil back then, and some lives were charmed and some lives were hard.
My grandma was born in 1925 Dublin Ireland and she could tell you you're tripping. 😅 she was a supervisor in a munitions factory in Birmingham making shells for the allies by the time she was 15. She only told me that amongst other crazy facts maybe 10+ years ago. True grit. We tend to think our grandparents are just sweet ole folks when in fact they were taking no shit. Women knew how to be a lady but also knew how to keep the house in order and take no shit.
My last living GP is my granny Mary, shes 98 bless her. Her mind is starting to go. She barely knows us now 😢
Sorry about that, may God bless the memories of her.
@@Lodestarter how exactly and why exactly should God do that, obviously you never read scripture.
Yeah the women from the Greatest Generation were tough. My granny was born in 1911 and got married during the depression. She said had it not been for their farm and the dairy they wouldn't have made it. They learned about life the hard way. One cool thing about her was she played the piano for the silent movies! 😊
I agree wholeheartedly. Anyone who thinks any different does so either because they have never known a woman born of that generation, and/or believe that having an opinion means one must be loud, obnoxious, crass, or rude.
And so you discourage her from emulating your grandma? A strong woman... An actual woman
You know what, someone build a time machine and let her get her way… for the last time
The 80’s and mid to late 70’s feels like a good stopping point if we were to go back to different times
1953-65 and 78-88 seem to be the best time to be alive in America. 2017-present is the worst, because although there were worse times on paper the social fabric of the country has fell apart.
Sooooo true , ahhhh the 80’s when everyday was Halloween I love and miss the 80’s ❤❤❤
I would have stopped in 1973, just before the Arab oil embargo.
Yeah, as a black guy, I’m not going back further than that lol. That “If you had a time machine…” question is pretty much pointless for us.
@@80PercentAshamedOfU _Hard_ agree. 1953-1965 in particular? *_NO THANKS!_* 🙄
My grandmother grew up in the 40s and looked back on those days quite fondly.
Probably because she was too young to remember the war (or have any responsibility)?
MOST people look back on their youth and remember it fondly. That doesn't mean it was the best of times for everybody. We're just conditioned to think we did it right, while our parents did it wrong and our kids have screwed it all up. I guarantee your grandmother thought the next generation was out of their minds.
Slaves grew up during slavery and looked back at those days fondly as well.... I'm sure non Jewish Germans looked back at those Nazis days as being generally good days as well... I'm sure the woman not fighting for equality looked back at those days fondly as well
Mine never complained she was in her 20s in the 40s
🤔Because your granny from that era (raised differently).
But a YT female from now, that can get more than merely a black man MeToo’ed without proof and other feminist privileges that she doesn’t miss now, because their still accessible, IS QUITE A DIFFERENT STORY.
My grandfather worked 6 days a week and at the end of each week he handed my grandmother his entire paycheck. My grandmother managed the household and made sure that every family member had the necessities in the most frugal ways. It was a partnership where each gave the other 100% trust. Society may have not regarded women's opinions as a whole, but her opinion meant everything to my grandfather.
Just know that their relationship was the exception not the rule. The rule was mega unbalanced favoring the husband both legally and socially.
All it took was you miscalculating your future husband and not knowing his streak of cruelty, narcissism, or substance abuse and you are locked in for a nightmare life.
Absolutely the exception. This was not the norm at all.
This sounds like a lovely relationship. It’s even more heartwarming thinking that your grandfather did this because women didn’t have the same rights as men back then and he wanted for her to have some kind of freedom and balance the unfairness out.
Yep thats exactly how it should be!!! ❤
My mom's parents were that way and I've been that way with my marriage.
He fired up the grill we let him cook and he roasted her😂😂
Yeah the good old 40's where my grandpa got his PTSD fighting in one direction while his family was fleeing in the other, such great days...
Didnt realize the band was that old
@@squidgaurd6927 Normally i would just assume that's a joke and find it funny but nowadays you never know, so you know i wasn't talking about a band right?😅
@@knowledgelesspumpkin5887 yeah, i just have dry humor
@@squidgaurd6927 no its ok i get it as said, as a joke its funny, the problem is you can't really be sure if it is a joke these days 🤣
Try comprehending and realize that she has no interest in the negative aspects.
I think she wants to live in the Theme Park version of the 40s
💯
Really? Maybe she wanted to live in a real country, surrounded by her own people and a caring society. Modern America sucks.
@@jakemocci3953 The 1940’s was one of the worst periods in the history of the world. The world was still reeling from the Great Depression of the 30’s, got smashed in the face by WWII that cost 56 million lives, and saw the rise in Stalinism and Maoism which spawned more famines and genocides. Yeah, the theme park version is what she is seeking.
@@user-cq6dg6ql9j And yet homes were more affordable, we had less crime, families were stronger, and we were internationally respected. We used to be a real country, new America is a joke. I hope it collapses.
@@jakemocci3953 You’re being very melodramatic. There was plenty of crime in the 40’s. Ever heard of the Mafia?
This is like if someone in the 2100s wanted to live in the 2020s for the Tiktok aesthetic lmao
😂😂😂
The 1940s are a bad place. My father was shot down over Warsaw, and many of the men in our little town never came home. Some of them, however, survived the death march through Germany. I saw Dutch warships from Indonesia unloading wounded civilians and the great battleship Nelson in harbour. Eight refugees from Singapore were in my class at school: their parents had been murdered in concentration camps. Many young Americans died in the Pacific war. The 1940s was not a nice time!
In the 1940's my grandmother was the wife of a well to do chemist. Her brother in law was a U.S. Senator. By 1940 standards her life was fairly comfortable compared to many. However she sewed every stitch of clothing for the entire family ( suits, shirts,dresses,ties, underwear and even my mother's wedding dress. She did laundry with a wringer washer and clothesline, ironed everything, maintained a garden for food and chickens for eggs and meat. Yes, she could wring the neck of a chicken and pluck it in the morning to have it ready for dinner in the evening. She canned, pickled and preserved food from the garden to use all winter. All meals were made at home and from scratch. Having gone through the great depression, she saw to it that nothing went to waste ever. As a young girl she could hitch up a team to the wagon. As an adult, she never drove a car. Either my grandfather took her or she would ride a bus. No TV but my grandparents loved the radio.
This a wonderful throwback. I'm Australian, my grandmother was still raising children in the 40's. Born 1906. She starched and ironed the sheets throughout the depression whist other children slept on dirty mattresses. I don't know that she had a ringer (as we did)... but she did have an outside boiler. She made the most of everything. My great uncles and aunts were fabulous, they sang around the piano and played board games they were alway's sociable and smart. It was indeed another time. Hard work and even grander romance.❤
Sure Jan.
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What are you talking about? Don't you know everyone in the 40's and ESPECIALLY the ones 50's were all miserable and oppressed? Women today are much better off knowing next to no practical skills, twerking on TikTok, and being told they'll be happy being alone with 4 cats in their 40's.
@@TheHammerofDissidence I can't tell if u r being sarcastic or not
You would be surprised how much influence they had on a household in the 1940s.
A household??? Like what time dinner was on
@@noirekuroraigami2270 Politics. Men dont care as much as women do.
What are you talking about influence? As soon as you walked through those doors it became her house, happy wife happy life came from this era. I knew my great and great great grandparents and my grandmothers were the ones who made all the decisions and my grandfathers wouldn't dare upset them. Generation later my grandpa was a dog constantly cheating and my great grandma said it's because women stopped being special and became just like the men when they entered the work force.
"On a household"
Okay, but they weren't able to own property, buy a car, or vote. Fucking dumbass.
@@TheSkyfolk I thought the 19th amendment was passed in 1920 that gave them the right to vote correct me if I’m wrong
My great grand mother grew up in the 30s and is the strongest woman I ever knew. Very outspoken
Now, because back then all they could do is stfu
Somehow people think woman in those years were like children that men dont let them talk or do anything.. Thats not true at all.. Sorry for my english..
Yeah from all those years of bottling it up before yous met
@@adameaszy7879 nah my mom said she worse before I was born lmao
@@joserafaelbermudezartiles9398 They could only express their opinions to their husband. And he would always have the last word as "it was his castle".
In the 1940s, a good woman was a quiet woman.So we wouldn't even want to hear your opinions
As an African American, I would DREAD living in the 1940s.
Is that so? That's because you didn't live back then. Listen to what this man says... "elderly people could walk freely without fear of being shot by their grandchildren..."
@@sarahm9723 She would have had to worry about her husband being killed in the war. If she were black she would have had to worry about her husband being lynched and or killed in the war and if she were Japanese, she would have been sent to an internment camp. Domestic violence wasn't even a thing back then If a man hit his wife or cheated on her, it just between them. she had to stay because she couldn't just leave and take care of the kids on her own. This is why alimony and child support were created.
But you're right, she wouldn't have to worry about being shot by her grandchildren... I guess?
Thomas Sowell is a genius!
By the 40's black owned businesses had started to decline according to an article by Harvard. The Golden age of Black business was between 1900 and 1930.
@@incubus_the_man Men always died in war defending their women and their children and country, but not 100% of them, or 90% of them, or 50% or 30%, or mankind would not have survived, and yet here you are. It's amazing what terror some of the men living nowadays feel toward having to be brave. What an embarrassment! Some men today feminize themselves by choice, and being terrified of defending a country is part of that feminization. Also, you don't care that young blacks are murdering other children in the neighborhood, women in the neighborhood, and elderly people in the neighborhood, do you? You need to be ashamed of yourself, and it should be an embarrassment to you that you aren't.
"Alright, now. Don't make me get the whip." - 👴
i love how she's assuming she would have survived the 1940s 🥴
Well, she's not European, so she stands a pretty good chance. American women were just working 12 hours a day in factories, not getting raped, shot and bombed like European women. Of course, I doubt she would even know what you and I were even talking about.🤦🙄
Well women did survive since if they didn’t none of us would be around.
@@Mr-Clark And a lot didn't.
Apparently a lot did, so what's your point?
What is it with all you people and these comments acting like surviving the 1940's was impossible?
You think her point of view is stupid well it's nothing compared to yours, the reality is the vast majority of the people who were alive in 1940 were alive in 1950, it wasn't the age of the Black Death or something, quit being so ridiculous.
What a bunch of drama queens.
@@afonphoenix16 Thanks to the large number that survived, our population is now 8.1B.
Ah yes, during the deadliest war in human history
Well, assuming she would be time traveling to america in the 1940s, that wouldn't really be a big problem for her
Only in absolute numbers. In relative numbers, there where much deadlier wars in the past, i.e. the 30 years war. As Pinker ruled in A History of Violance, the 20. Century was quite peaceful in comparison to those before.
And the most prosperous time to come shortly after. So yeah, why not?
Ww1 was worse
Which war the european civil war,when the european tribes were fighting.Reality is what did mozt of the world get after both "world wars" we got nothing.Most of the countries were colonised.I guarantee you it was all good in most of the world.
lol it's a fact that Laughter and Joy were invented in the 1970s before that no one ever had fun or lived good lives, it was just impossible. anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. and you can take that to fact to the bank.
Women had opinions back then. The problem she would be facing is a 50% chance of being in a world war and a 50% chance of being in a world directly following a world war.
... like we're not now? Putin's still hovering his finger over the button you know.
@@NoirRaven this time let's draft the girls. It's their turn.
1940’s- B*mbs consistently dropping, air raid sirens booming, while you & everyone around you runs to an air raid shelter to survive. Random buildings & roads around the city destroyed. No one had the power to destroy an entire country despite many years of consistent b*mbs being dropped.
Now- No b*mbs dropped, but the threat of them being dropped, & there’s a high chance if anyone does drop [even a couple] you haven’t got access to a secure enough shelter to survive. Most likely, no city left. Certain countries have the power to destroy other countries.
Basic comparison- now, I’m curious, which one people would rather pick...
@@MorbidClown still not the past. Nothing but spooky isn't the same as real shit.
It might change soon.
@@coldeed And every rich man's child, no exceptions. See how long *that* war would last.
No internet, a world war, toiling in a factory all night long, no appliances to help with chores, having to cook all your meals yourself, being catcalled every time you walk around in public, and limited rights as a woman. She's nuts.
FACT: Women were happier then.
Lol so many reasons to be miserable now also.
@@braceyourselvesfortruth2492 Counter Fact: You're an incel
@@jaxxiet5851 So yes lets be miserable with fewer rights and being treated like meat THATLL FIX IT!
@@braceyourselvesfortruth2492
Do you have a source to back up this statement? People didn't have anesthesia back then not even for childbirth. They had all sorts of diseases that we've since eradicated or have cures for. Women didn't have rights. How exactly were they happier?
I can tell my Grandmother absolutely had opinions and in the throughout the 1940's till the 1990s. Never discredit the role Wifes/Mother's played.
the realest comment so far.
@Hephaistos - Roles aren't your thing, huh? 🙄🥱😴
@Hephaistos - Your grasp of all potential options for women is limited.
@hephaistos681 How were women limited? They were traditional wives and mothers, and during WW2, they did an amazing job for America.
@@k.m.9801 they were limited to traditional roles which itself is limiting. Try being a divorced woman back in those times. Husband beats you regularly but you have to stay because you were a traditional woman who had no skills and most likely no post secondary education
she had them +!+$ on her!
She’s talking about due to modesty, two parent households, and women taking care of the home.
None of which served us well.
@@rickwelch8464 Were you born in the late 80’s-early 90’s by chance ?
@@rickwelch8464 it served us very well. Femenism has forced two working parents which takes child rearing further away from the parents and doubled the tax cattle. Single motherhood has sky rocketed and many studies have show the adverse affect that has on children. Femenism gave corporations the work force they needed and has worked to destroy the nuclear family and we fell for it.
@@password6025 You should go back one step further. If companies paid enough for one person to afford a family, there would be much less of that happening. You were probably also cool with women not voting too?Who are you or anyone else to stop a woman from doing what she wants?
@@rickwelch8464 Really? Todays world is bet5er? High incarceration rates, single parent homes, kids who don’t know their fathers, working mothers?
It’s okay to pick a time period in the past and like some good things about it. There’s a mixed bag of good and bad in every time period.
yup; very true!
but if she’d said anything close to that, we wouldn’t be here, watching this perfect response to her short-sighted, privilege-soaked foolishness. 😬🤓
So what would be a good thing about that for her specifically to go to?
@zeldapro18 Just because YOU don't see something good about a time period, doesn't mean everyone thinks that way.
If you think everyone was just 24/7 miserable, then I have a bridge to sell you.
@@zeldapro18well, for one: style
@@KrissyMeow Could you list 3 good things about the 1940’s for women then? Please open my eyes, all I see is a bunch of negative things.
My grandmother basically had zero say in how her life turned out. She got pregnant and had to marry. Then she had to become a housewife. Then she had to have more children. She wanted a career, but the closest she could get was working in retail when her children were old enough. It made her a bitter woman, right until the end. Even my mother didn’t get to make her own choices, since she wanted children, but was a lesbian. She had to marry in order to have us. Let’s not go back to the 49s, please and thank you
people didn't have opinions in the 1940s?
Unfortunate that this generation is learning history from an HBO series
Are you sure they're learning.
Possibly because "THEY" aren't being taught the truth or unable to uncover the TRUTH anymore
I thought The History Channel was
where you learn history.
@@billmurray7473 Not cool enough for people to be interested, especially with their ever shrinking attention span.
Mjf u best keep tht title may 28th, or I'm be upset.
My grandmother played in one of the women’s baseball leagues in the 40’s.
That’s freaking awesome! Was she a “Rockford Peach”?
That's amazing!!! Her and women like her are heroes!
@@jamesdean258 THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT!😂 I love that movie!! 🤗🫶
I love that you shared that with us! Too bad you couldn’t post any pics of her with the other amazing pioneering hero’s of women’s baseball! I hope she was able to share her memories with you. Such a really neat thing! 🤗🫶
@@kimmieh8419 Amazing movie!
Sorry, but womens lib, called the workforce, in 1940, took pver war production, test pilots, testing arms etc, their opinion was valued, thanx to Mrs Roosevelt.❤😊
My Irish grandmother was born in 1907 with an opinion that lasted up to her death in 1981.
Because you were around to witness most of her life......
What was the opinion
Hell yeah! Love to hear it.
Mine 1909 to 1999😢
Mine was very much one to have her own strong opinion about things & she was a wife in the 1940’s but also a working single mother since my grandfather didn’t do anything to contribute so she divorced him. She lived quite an amazing life but always had a good job, tons of friends & the chance to watch her daughter’s children grow up…but to the last moments of consciousness before they put her in a coma she had a strong opinion especially about what she wanted to have happen when she passed away so to the very end she was not shy about voicing her opinion. I have another grandmother that was very opinionated & she was a housewife in the 1940’s & wasn’t shy about voicing her opinion either.
For women nowadays that want to act more like a 1940’s housewife I don’t see a problem it’s their choice.
I think she likes the 1940's fashion.
Her parents have left the mennonite theology.
@@darkfarfetch3664Do think theres anything wromg with that
@@darkfarfetch3664yep. She wants to dress nice she wants to be a stay-at-home mom with a nanny and a maid.
The dress looks great on her.
@@troyesivan4416y’all just want all control you don’t want anyone who would challenge your authority
Definitely would have been an interesting time. My mother-in law was 18 in 1940 and lived in England. She learned to weld in an aircraft factory. She enjoyed that time. Had lot's of great stories about it.
Just like people are enjoying their lives now, creating stories about their lives. It's simple psychology. It's also utterly hilarious to me people compare their lives to one they've never personally lived as if they somehow can even compare? People will say they can though, we've compared our lives with everyone and every generation since the beginning of time.
She was only able to learn that because most men were forced to fight in the war!
Lol…yeah, but did you get the rest of the story.
The Battle for Britain was going on while your mother in law worked. Bombs dropping on London. Children being displaced throughout the countryside for safety.
@@codyrebelcb only now we have shittier music, television, and movies. Culture as a whole has degenerated. The culture back then was way better...and I rather be a stay at home mom instead of having to work a full time 40 hour a week job and still have to come home and be a fucken mom!!!!!!!! Shit has only gotten worse, IDC how much you young idiots try to act like shit is so much better today than it was back then...........
Them good old days when women and blacks were our property 🔥
My mom grew up in the 1940s and she said that is rubbish, as you are not the first person to make such statements. She had opinions, her mom had opinions and as she said to me, the men knew to listen to their wives because women have always known how to motivate their husbands. I knew my mom to be a VERY opinionated person. She did not just get that way after the 1940s she was like that her whole life. Her dad called her spitfire because she was little but she was loud. She was 4'11" and I was afraid of her.
Same with my mom! She was one tuff cookie!
Your mom talk about what it's like not being allowed a bank account, a credit card, to say no to your husband if he wanted sex, not being allowed to buy contraception, not to be allowed on a jury? Because none of those were allowed in America until the 70s
@@dermaspaceSC Somehow, not a single thing you just listed is actually true, that's an exploit in and of itself. I think it's also funny how miserable a life must be to boil down an entire existence to ''having a bank account and credit card'', ''saying no to sex'', ''having contraception'' and ''being allowed on a jury''. Like... wow, is that all life has to offer to you? Having debts, saying no to sex, having no children and being part of the single most boring legal task in existence? Geez
@@dermaspaceSC No bank account, credit card, contraception or jury duty??? This is a bad thing??
I'm pretty sure rape has always been illegal though.
@@ToolFist598 no...a woman could not legally refuse her husband sex until the 70s. So not it hasn't always been illegal. And if you think not having any financial freedom is fun, I encourage you to explore that option, esp with someone who doesn't believe in your bodily autonomy.
I often think, I wish I lived in the 1920s. BUT ONLY FOR THE CLOTHES AND NOTHING ELSE. Lol. I want 1920s fashion to come back in a massive way. Nothing else.
Exactly. Like, I very much enjoy my video games, unsegregated schools, and not dying of polio thank you very much.
Flappers. Yes.
For me, as a black woman, I enjoy not fearing being hanged, or just working as the help.
Based
Literally, just dress differently then dude.
My great grandma said that in the 40's and 50's she never had a problem. She had a job, voted, raised a family, and enjoyed life.
Let me guess, she is white?
@vanMisthoven why would that matter? Aside from civil issues and the equality act, black families were doing better as a household and a unit then they are now.
@@vanmisthoven4906 ya, and? She also worked and lived around many people who had very similar experiences.
@@komplex6081 lol, are you serious?!
Guys, you might wanna grab a history book.
@@vanmisthoven4906 sounds like you need to read more. Ignorant baboon
I don't think the latter half of the 40s were that bad, and the 50s were great. Post war economic boom, you could work your way through school on a part time summer job, you could actually buy a house... If she wouldn't mind being a house wife I don't see the issue.
Yeah but her husband was most likely an alcoholic who was controlling
My great-grandmother was the matriarch, well respected, she voiced opinions and was listened to, families tended to have tight bonds, streets even in Harlom and New York were safe, and everyone knew what a woman was 🤔
My grandmother became a widow in the 60's... she got a job in repair to support her children. She was required to wear a regular dress while her male colleagues wore blue-jean overalls to protect their skin. This Lady does not realize the BS women have overcome since then.... (and this was 20 years after that time..)
Yeah, now women abort their children, leave their husbands because there is no "spark", and raise boys without fathers who grow up to be antifa members and school shooters.
We sure have advanced, but yeah wearing a dress must have been TERRIBLE.
And they were happier
Most women were happier back then
@@timesthree5757 maybe, but I think they just were told not to complain and to act happy so…
@@screm7878 yes y'all were
This is why history class is so important!
Women had spoken opinions back in the forties this is absolutely Correct what the young lady is saying
It sure is, but not for the reason you think.
Nah lol the family unit was much more stable back then and crime was lower father's were in the house homosexuality was practically unheard of a lot of modern ills are product of single mother households and women being given power over men.
@@cameroncooper9501 yeah and when they were beat by their husbands and called the cops no one did anything about it.
Right to vote was achieved in 1919.
In the 1940s women were considered property, if a woman was beaten and police came to the door, they would walk away it was considered a domestic matter and that the woman needed to be taught a lesson. Just one of the many things this girl would have to look forward to when she invents that time machine.
And here comes the feminist propaganda to defame and demonize a socially better adjusted era than the misandrist feminist hell hole we live in today.
The majority of women were quite happy and adjusted. It was the man's job to do certain things and it was her job to support him. Only the ungrateful and bitter complained and they complained for the wrong reasons. Mainly because they couldn't act out their anti-social impulses.
Liar. Not just any liar but, a feminist liar. Flagged.
In the 1940s men were considered government property as they drafted them and sent them to fight and often die in WWII (or in other instances WWI, Korea, Vietnam).
Notice how YT's censorship algorithm has been jacked up several notches since January 1.
Misandry gets a free pass but, any rebuttal is blocked from view.
@@nozack5612 Do you see a man wanting to go back to that era?
Fashion-wise? Hell yeah. Actually _living_ in the 1940’s? Hell _nah._
I mean, unless you're poor.
Enjoy getting your skivvies made out of whatever you/your wife/mom can get. Things like reused burlap sacks.
Not facetious here, some of my late father's earliest memories involved how horrible those "shorts" felt.
Those Hugo Boss uniforms, am I right? 😬
Thats back when American boy's all got given a really snazzy green suit from the government.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog Or blue.
Naw I like my excessively modern breathable, machine washable, cheap ass clothes. Though we are 80 years in the future and women got opinions but cost them their pockets. 😓