I think she means not somebody literally old enough to remember it but just closer to it historically.
That being said, my grandmothers were a little too old for the roaring 20s , but even if they hadn’t been, they probably wouldn’t have partaken. Though one of them smoked cigarettes they were extreme teetotallers and disapproved of Coca-Cola because they could remember when it had real cocaine in I guess. One of them died a year before I was born but I know these things from what others told me.
It’s hard to picture a recent sea change of this type as big as the sexual revolution. Remember that most of the flappers went on to marry and have families after a few years of being wild and most of the women doing mens’ work during World War II went back to regular life after the war. I suppose that the divorce rate spiked during the 20th century and the Pill was a big factor, or we were told it was. But now people aren’t even getting married. It seems like a big leap to me.
And when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, the government is be ing crueler and more oppressive. And never in my life have I seen such a wide cross-section of the population(not just bad guys!) fear and loathe law enforcement.
It’s not just the Pill, but something else. There’s some kind of sickness going on and it’s like there’s zero sanity anywhere.
“flappers went on to marry and have families after a few years of being wild and most of the women doing mens’ work during World War II went back to regular life after the war”
In all honesty, here is why I support women working:
Oprah begins at four and needs at five (where I live).
If women are at work at four and coming home at five, that means that women get home just as Oprah is ending.
Hence, they miss Oprah and Oprah’s ratings drop and her show dies off.
Women did the flapper fun, but they had their limits and a flapper back then was similar to being, well, I dunno. But it wasn’t something that threw women so off track that society became a huge mess.
“And never in my life have I seen such a wide cross-section of the population(not just bad guys!) fear and loathe law enforcement.”
Yeah I know; old friends of mine made jokes about law officers, but we NEVER wished them sincere harm and NEVER wold have dared mouth off to them. We never cheered the harm of a police officer and never dared sing songs about killing cops.