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In reply to the discussion: I saw something rather disturbing today. [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I was a kid, but my Grandma was in thrall when it came on.
Lot of older women were on the show, and given their age at the time, they had been thru the Depression, and WWI and 2.
When they told their stories, you could understand that they were not highly educated, and had spent their lives raising families for the most part.
I would cringe, even back then, seeing how the audience just loved to be part of Lady Bountiful to those pitiable contestants.
I also cringed because I came from a intergenerational family where the women DID complain to each other about their health problems
a lot.
Which is why years later, I loved the Monty Python 4 Yorkshire men skit.
" We used to live in one room, 26 of us, with no roof and half the floor was missing"