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In reply to the discussion: Growing up female [View all]Neoma
(10,039 posts)60. I used to know a guy who played the harp...
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Absolutely NO ONE ever asked if it was good for ALL of us to get married & have kids.
patrice
May 2012
#1
Thank you all. It really was just one more item on the list. I had an horrific childhood and the
LiberalLoner
May 2012
#65
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to read that you "have such a happy life now"
renate
May 2012
#77
Thank you! I feel as if I've escaped a concentration camp. Sometimes I do still feel guilt that
LiberalLoner
May 2012
#83
"I also was adamant from a very early age that I did not want to have babies"
noiretextatique
May 2012
#94
1989: Dad tells me that he doesn't support college just so I can get my MRS degree
Starry Messenger
May 2012
#3
Oh, I remember than one! Flight attendant was considered one of the best things that
patrice
May 2012
#14
Spanking women - I love Lucy. And Lucy wasn't like an equal partner. She was what's-his-names
Liberal_in_LA
May 2012
#21
i was Az., and Ca. and a little younger. i dont ever recall a rule i had to wear a dress
seabeyond
May 2012
#15
still going strong today. boys play the drums, girls play the harp...some of them.
Liberal_in_LA
May 2012
#18
Yeah, it depended on where you lived. My mom grew up in a small town, where everyone had to do
Brickbat
May 2012
#41
My mom and her sister learned piano. They can still play some 1 piano/4 hands pieces they remember.
slackmaster
May 2012
#84
girls had to take typing & home ec. Boys took wood shop / metal shop. I was the last class with
Liberal_in_LA
May 2012
#17
For me it was, "learn to type but don't let anyone in your workplace know you know how"
Iris
May 2012
#39
After I graduated from high school I had a choice...Stay home an be a waitress, salesgirl or secreta
Auntie Bush
May 2012
#42
I'm a few years older than you. Like you, I couldn't wear pants to school, but it was the whole 12
raccoon
May 2012
#47
Another example of how most times, when a kid gets a spanking, it's because of the adult's anger
raccoon
May 2012
#79
I was always shocked when my Mother told me she had to wear skirts in college.
Jennicut
May 2012
#50
How nice of you to share your thoughtless cluenessness, before being PPR'ed yet again. n/t
gkhouston
May 2012
#64
purposely try to offend and throw out no offense meant? really? here, pull this finger. nt
seabeyond
May 2012
#67
I played on the state all-star softball team (early 1960s) but wasn't allowed to play baseball.
Waiting For Everyman
May 2012
#61
I'm a little older than you. When I was in high school I was approached by the Air Force.
Arkansas Granny
May 2012
#72