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[Dancefortwo]

Everyone seems to hate Meghan Markle (maybe it's her skin color or something, I don't know) anyway, when she was a kid of 11 she wrote in to the Ivory Soap company protesting their female stereotyped commercials showing only women using cleaning products.  She specifically wanted the advertisers to stop saying "women across America" (or something like that) are cleaning dishes with Ivory soap to "people across America"  and they actually changed it.   When I was 11 I was more like 6.   Good work little Meghan.

[Vera]

Everyone seems to hate Meghan Markle (maybe it's her skin color or something, I don't know) anyway, when she was a kid of 11 she wrote in to the Ivory Soap company protesting their female stereotyped commercials showing only women using cleaning products.  She specifically wanted the advertisers to stop saying "women across America" (or something like that) are cleaning dishes with Ivory soap to "people across America"  and they actually changed it.   When I was 11 I was more like 6.   Good work little Meghan.

Hate her? Certain British media are trying to convince her she's some sort of modern-day Joan of Arc or some other martyr or something.

The tabloids might have been vicious (as they always are) but the fawning over the two of them like they're some sort of heroes, rejecting the royal family... but not daddy's money or all the publicity that comes from being a useless paradise and a starlet who's famous by and large because of said parasite? Fuck this noise.


Speaking of Errol Flynn, am I the only who's noticed that actors from those days look... much older. As in, a 35-40-year-old Cary Grant or Clark Gable or Flynn, look like they're in their fifties, at least

[Dancefortwo]

Everyone seems to hate Meghan Markle (maybe it's her skin color or something, I don't know) anyway, when she was a kid of 11 she wrote in to the Ivory Soap company protesting their female stereotyped commercials showing only women using cleaning products.  She specifically wanted the advertisers to stop saying "women across America" (or something like that) are cleaning dishes with Ivory soap to "people across America"  and they actually changed it.   When I was 11 I was more like 6.   Good work little Meghan.

Hate her? Certain British media are trying to convince her she's some sort of modern-day Joan of Arc or some other martyr or something.

The tabloids might have been vicious (as they always are) but the fawning over the two of them like they're some sort of heroes, rejecting the royal family... but not daddy's money or all the publicity that comes from being a useless paradise and a starlet who's famous by and large because of said parasite? Fuck this noise.


Speaking of Errol Flynn, am I the only who's noticed that actors from those days look... much older. As in, a 35-40-year-old Cary Grant or Clark Gable or Flynn, look like they're in their fifties, at least  

We must read different news sources.  Markle is being roasted alive in the press that I've read. 

Flynn looked 50 when he was 30 because he drank like a fiend and burned the candle at both ends.  He and David Niven had a bungalo near the Pacific Ocean.  They called it "Cirrhosis by the Sea".  Olivia de Havilland told the story of meeting an old man at a party and didn't recognize who he was for a minute. Then she realized it was Flynn with whom she had made 6 or 7 movies.    He died at 49 but looked 70....at least.  


 He went from this.....



to this.....





......in about 20 years.  





( I know too many stupid Hollywood stories.  Geesh!  I used to live there.)

[Vera]

We must read different news sources.  Markle is being roasted alive in the press that I've read. 

You should prolly lay off the Daily Mail

I think the age thing is probably style to a large degree. As in, they do not actually have wrinkles or white hair but they look... somehow older. Can't quite explain it. But nowadays a man in his thirties (at least movie stars) are usually much younger-looking than a thirty-something man from that age.

I remember watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (the only thing that stunted joke in Rio suggested that I actually liked. His taste was as laughable as he was ) and Elizabeth Tyler was in her early thirties in it (33 I think) and I remember thinking she actually looked older than I am (and I was more 33 by then ). Though, now that I looked it up, she was supposed to be middle-aged and put on some weight for the role so maybe that's why.

But it's mostly the men...

Or. They're actually older in the movies and playing much younger men, because, superstars and sex symbols. Who knows

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

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[Vera]

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Some of them don't even look real, they're so grotesque! Then again, let's not forget this vile, "bringing democracy to Europe" creature and his "torches of freedom":

"Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to encourage women's smoking by exploiting women's aspirations for a better life during the early twentieth century first-wave feminism in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire for women to smoke and was used by Edward Bernays to encourage women to smoke in public despite social taboos. Bernays hired women to march while smoking their "torches of freedom" in the Easter Sunday Parade of 31 March 1929,[1] which was a significant moment for fighting social barriers for women smokers."



The other link was just... every time I read something about segregation my mind struggles to process the sheer vileness of it. And how recent it is, too...


And yet, all attempts at overcoming oppression and injustice invariable makes things worse, as we've been told over and over again in the last couple of days.

Worse for the oppressors, for sure

[Minimalist]

Can't quite explain it. But nowadays a man in his thirties (at least movie stars) are usually much younger-looking than a thirty-something man from that age.

Advances in make-up technology and touched up photos?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to encourage women's smoking by exploiting women's aspirations for a better life during the early twentieth century first-wave feminism in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire for women to smoke and was used by Edward Bernays to encourage women to smoke in public despite social taboos. Bernays hired women to march while smoking their "torches of freedom" in the Easter Sunday Parade of 31 March 1929,[1] which was a significant moment for fighting social barriers for women smokers."

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

Can't quite explain it. But nowadays a man in his thirties (at least movie stars) are usually much younger-looking than a thirty-something man from that age.

Advances in make-up technology and touched up photos?

And/Or better diets, better medicine, more exercise...

[Dancefortwo]

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It's funny, the ads for washing machines and vacuums and other household cleaning items need to be put in the context of what the previous generation of women had to do to clean clothes and the house.  Of course, the problem really lies in the fact that it was all "women's work" but the conveniences that were invented to make work easier and freed women from the drudgery of the kitchen also freed men from back breaking work on farms and in factories.   Without machines doing the menial work for humans, equality among the sexes and races would never have progresses as far as they have.  

If you ever what to see what women had to do to clean clothes in centuries past just watch this fascinating re-enacting actress who takes you through the washing steps.




After watching this lady I went down and kissed my washing machine.   I worship that device like no other machine in my house.    

At one time women would haul out all their white clothing, boil them is a big metal cauldron and then lay them out in a field to dry and  naturally bleach in the sun.  They were informally called "the drying fields".  

 I am so happy I don't have to do shit like this anymore V V V 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My mother owned a wringer washer when we were kids. We'd hang the laundry on a clothes line.

[Alan V]

My mother owned a wringer washer when we were kids. We'd hang the laundry on a clothes line.

I remember that my grandmother had one, too.

[Minimalist]

My mother owned a wringer washer when we were kids. We'd hang the laundry on a clothes line.

Do today's kids even know what a clothes line is?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I stayed a couple of weeks in Mexico when when I was a wee bairn, visiting with our housekeeper's mother whose home, in the tiny village of Matachic, Chihuahua, had no running water for a toilet, only an outhouse. I shat the bed, literally, one night because at five I was afraid to walk out to the outhouse.

The poor lady spent part of the morning washing soiled undies and sheets on a scrub-board, before wringing them out and hanging them out to dry. I felt ashamed. This was 1972.

[Dancefortwo]

My mother owned a wringer washer when we were kids. We'd hang the laundry on a clothes line.

Do today's kids even know what a clothes line is?

If you call them "solar clothes dryers" they'll think it's some sort of new millennial invention.

[Inkubus]

My mother owned a wringer washer when we were kids. We'd hang the laundry on a clothes line.

We had one. It broke.
No mam it wasn't us!
How did that tin of sardines get jammed in there then?
It wasn't us mam!

These patients suffered a wide variety of injuries ranging from simple skin abrasions to loss of limbs. Skeletal, nerve, and tendon injuries were encountered.*

The Acme wringer

* Mammy's in those days were wicked bastards.