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Tue May 8, 2012, 05:19 PM

Warpy (69,656 posts)

73. They refused to allow girls in shop in the south in the early 60s

The closest we ever got to a shop class was having to provide coffee to the male teacher.

I retaliated by flunking both home ec and typing. I flunked them with enough panache that they didn't want me to repeat the classes.

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96 replies	Author	Time	Post
Growing up female [View all]	noiretextatique	May 2012	OP
Absolutely NO ONE ever asked if it was good for ALL of us to get married & have kids.	patrice	May 2012	#1
I'm 50, and had about the same list as you.	LiberalLoner	May 2012	#2
sorry you were a victim of rape	Liberal_in_LA	May 2012	#20
I am in my mid 50's	Mojorabbit	May 2012	#22
Me too. Birth control pills were a lifesaver!	nolabear	May 2012	#35
I am SO sorry about what happened to you when you were a little girl	renate	May 2012	#55
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
I was supposed to be a nurse	DevonRex	May 2012	#26
omg.	Starry Messenger	May 2012	#28
mine was odd. i knew men were better/superior/higher on the heirarchy/boss	seabeyond	May 2012	#4
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 am older than you	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2012	#5
53 ???	jaysunb	May 2012	#6
I tried to join a baseball team...	cynatnite	May 2012	#7
i took mechanical drawing cause girls werent suppose to. in HS, i forget.	seabeyond	May 2012	#8
i took mechanical drawing too--7th or 8th grade	Scout	May 2012	#12
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
Ha	MadrasT	May 2012	#44
"I tried to join a baseball team..."	KansDem	May 2012	#16
There was talk around school about the 2 girls taking shop. lol	Liberal_in_LA	May 2012	#23
I took shop in 8th grade.....	Darth_Kitten	May 2012	#29
We had to take both in junior high.	Jennicut	May 2012	#52
They refused to allow girls in shop in the south in the early 60s	Warpy	May 2012	#73
You're exaggerating a bit	slackmaster	May 2012	#9
Piano and clarinet were acceptable.	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2012	#10
My aunt, who recently turned 74, plays the lever harp beautifully	slackmaster	May 2012	#13
still going strong today. boys play the drums, girls play the harp...some of them.	Liberal_in_LA	May 2012	#18
I used to know a guy who played the harp...	Neoma	May 2012	#60
saxaphones were for boys also	Liberal_in_LA	May 2012	#19
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
no, it was very much dependent on where you lived	Skittles	May 2012	#27
I had a job like that at about the same time	MadrasT	May 2012	#45
um...no i am not all "exaggerating"	noiretextatique	May 2012	#85
I am 73 and was a teenager in the '50s,	RebelOne	May 2012	#11
I........er.......HORSE?	Skittles	May 2012	#78
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
I'm too young to have experienced any of this	XemaSab	May 2012	#24
I'm 62	frazzled	May 2012	#25
"You need to take typing in case you need a job."	davsand	May 2012	#30
I lived in IL for a couple of years too and remember those snow pants.	nolabear	May 2012	#36
For me it was, "learn to type but don't let anyone in your workplace know you know how"	Iris	May 2012	#39
I grew up in the 70s and 80s	LadyHawkAZ	May 2012	#31
These responses are all well and good... but	CAG	May 2012	#32
Ha, ha, ha!	roody	May 2012	#34
I graduated High School in 1964	HeiressofBickworth	May 2012	#33
I got mixed messages.	laundry_queen	May 2012	#37
Sexual harassment started in elementary school for me as well.	redqueen	May 2012	#38
i could not play saxophone in elementary school because i was a girl	guardian	May 2012	#40
not sure why, but my school had that rule	noiretextatique	May 2012	#90
After I graduated from high school I had a choice...Stay home an be a waitress, salesgirl or secreta	Auntie Bush	May 2012	#42
Oh, yeah. 57 here, and the saxophone thing: I thought I was the only one!	pink-o	May 2012	#43
Remember the jobs listed in the classified ads under headings designating	Skidmore	May 2012	#46
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
In the mid-70s, there was an ad comparing a Volkswagen and a chair.	EFerrari	May 2012	#48
i remember wanting to be a boy	noiretextatique	May 2012	#95
I saw a man wash a dish only once when I was growing up.	shcrane71	May 2012	#49
Wow. My dad washed dishes all the time.	gkhouston	May 2012	#62
Even my younger brother (in his 30s) doesn't wash dishes.	shcrane71	May 2012	#66
men never did "women's work" in our house	noiretextatique	May 2012	#89
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
life before panty hose and after the JFK assassination	librechik	May 2012	#51
I would just like to share this with you:	juice feast	May 2012	#53
What a nasty post, whether you write "no offense"	sufrommich	May 2012	#56
making friends all over, I see	librechik	May 2012	#58
LOL. While you were being born into second wave feminism	EFerrari	May 2012	#59
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
When somebody says "no offense"	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2012	#76
oh...FUCK...that	noiretextatique	May 2012	#86
Don't forget the segregated employment classified ads.	sufrommich	May 2012	#54
i remember those	noiretextatique	May 2012	#96
Mom vacuuming in high heels and pearls	lapislzi	May 2012	#57
I played on the state all-star softball team (early 1960s) but wasn't allowed to play baseball.	Waiting For Everyman	May 2012	#61
Yeah, I remember having to wear dresses to school.	gkhouston	May 2012	#63
I grew up in a cesspit of emotional, psychological and sexual violence.	BlueIris	May 2012	#68
seem minor by comparison.... that it does. nt	seabeyond	May 2012	#69
yeah me too...plus a debilitating chronic illness	BlancheSplanchnik	May 2012	#70
too damned depressing.... lol, ya. but,	seabeyond	May 2012	#71
awwww, thanks sea	BlancheSplanchnik	May 2012	#81
Thanks for sharing it, Blanche.	Amaril	May 2012	#75
thanks Amaril :)	BlancheSplanchnik	May 2012	#80
i can relate	noiretextatique	May 2012	#87
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
i wanted to go into the Air Force	noiretextatique	May 2012	#93
I'm 49	Amaril	May 2012	#74
i have an aversion to "serving" to this day	noiretextatique	May 2012	#88
I'm a little younger but remember the 70s well -	TBF	May 2012	#82
thank god i had a few older cousins	noiretextatique	May 2012	#91
i played drums in the marching band in high school	noiretextatique	May 2012	#92

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