I love following obscure historic sites and museums on social media. They’re so idiosyncratic. An otherwise dry recent post from Gunston Hall, the historic home of third-tier Founding Father George Mason, used the hashtag “#Gout” in the middle of a paragraph. You can’t get this content anywhere else.
I genuinely love all those comments on this video
Would like to formally apologize to the animation team behind the OG scooby doo. I thought this shit was just cheap animation, they really did just dance like that back then.
The number of people in the comments saying this is from the 70s is absolutely HORRIFYING to me.
The fashion is MOD, and MOD is from the SIXTIES.
DISCO is from the 70s!
Learn this difference, PLEASE!
Okay I've seen a lot of people asking what's inaccurate about this dress, so let's get into it.
Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, so this is where we're going:
Wedding Dress, 1840, The Cincinnati Art Museum
Wedding Dress, 1844, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wedding Dress, 1840, New Canaan Museum & Historical Society
after doing something as big and heavy as a fashion analysis of the Manson story, I may have to do something completely light and stupid and fun like a hate-watch of With Love, Meghan but idk.
Yeah I hate to add to that pile of hate but her whole "I'm just a normal mom! lol!" schtick gets fucking enfuriating when you actually know a few things about luxury brands, "stealth wealth" and how they work.
"I'm so normal! I mix Zara with Loro Piana!"
You mean this Loro Piana?
and if there is anything that absolutely infuriates me, it's paying that much fucking money to look that utterly unremarkable. HOW CAN YOU SPEND A YEAR'S WORTH OF HEALTH INSURANCE ON A DRESS AND NOT SERVE AN OUNCE OF CUNT?!
Like I would be absolutely fine with her blatantly showing off her fabulous wealth if she were at least a little bit cunty about. The fact that's is all just so bland is fucking insulting.
But doing that will involve having to physically fight every haggard white bitch that comes out saying, "yeah, I never liked Meghan, she was always so fake" *sprays you with a garden hose* SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! THIS IS NOT FOR YOU! THIS! IS! NOT! FOR! YOU! PRINCE HARRY MARRIED A BLACK WOMAN INSTEAD OF YOU AND YOU NEED TO FUCKING LIVE WITH IT!!!!!
ugh. Being a feminist and class-conscious hater is hard sometimes.
More than 1000 people have been killed in a horrific 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, and the devastation is enormous. To help survivors:
World Central Kitchen are en route to the affected areas.
MSF/Doctors Without Borders also have teams on the ground to aid the injured.
Charles Manson and his first wife, Rosalie Willis, 1955
When modern Fascists talk about Make America Great Again, they are more than likely thinking about the 1950s. It's an incredibly easy era to romanticize and idealize: World War II had revitalized the Depression economy, and the prosperity carried on into the next decades. GIs had their college educations paid for through the GI bill, which allowed a generation of farmers and blue collar workers to leap into the middle class.
Jobs were plentiful and homes were cheap. The suburbs were exploding. Beyond that, people dressed elegantly: men wore suits and hats and had respectable haircuts while women wore beautiful dresses with tightly-cinched corseted waists and hoops skirts with ruffled petticoats the recalled the Victorian era.
The 1950s, as outwardly prosperous and beautiful as they were, hid an immense darkness lying underneath, one that was hidden away and ignored.
In his 1966 masterpiece, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote recalls the 1959 seemingly random murder of the Clutter family by two no-account drifters. In it, he addresses the idea of two Americas: the good, virtuous, and upright, versus the dark, criminal, and deviant, and how they came into bloody conflict one dark night in Kansas.
Charles Manson had an absolutely terrible life. Born to a single mother, he often told the story that his mother traded him in once for a pitcher of beer. He was constantly committing petty crimes and was in and out of institutions that were rife with violence and abuse.
The stoicism that had brought America through the hard times of the Great Depression and World War 2 metastasized into a hardened attitudes and an outward obsession with keeping up appearances.
When bad things happened, you didn't talk about them, you just dealt with them and carried on with things. Domestic violence, sexual abuse, and child abuse were considered personal problems to be dealt with at home, and not something the rest of society should concern itself with. As long as you were making money and conforming to what society expected of you, things were good and there was no need to bring up old feelings. Obedience and conformity were the cure to all social ills and anyone who deviated from that was considered dangerous.
And that didn't even get into the racial politics of the time. For as prosperous as most people in the White community were, Black people were systematically excluded from that wealth. Jim Crow laws were still deeply in effect, and black boys and men like Emmett Till were still being lynched and subjected to horrific racial violence.
While many White people were coming around to the idea that segregation was bad and that Black people were deserving of civil rights, many still clung to White supremacist ideals and believed that racial equality would be the downfall of Western society.
And then there was the global politics: starting with the Korean War in 1952, America was constantly engaged not in the noble battle for freedom that World War II had been, but in a series of proxy wars in faraway places that all had the extremely vague premise of "fighting communism." At home, Joseph McCarthy brought together the House Un-American Activity Committee to persecute anyone he saw of having "communist sympathies." Paranoia set in, and everyone expected The Bomb to fall at any moment.
One of the best encapsulations of the 1950s that I've come across so far is this 1952 Tampa Tribune article describing the sermon at the funeral of four-year-old Wayne E. Dolham, who was starved and tortured to death by his parents:
This is the America that created Charles Manson.
Not only is this the nation that created Manson, it is the nation that has re-elected that orange shitgibbon, because they LONG for that horrible, horrible time. My parents are Boomers, full disclosure. They were born in 53 and 56, respectively. Mom was an out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy (there's that dark undercurrent to the squeaky-clean 50s shit - though that was the ONLY dark thing about mom's family other than anxiety and depression - they were pretty much above a lot of the shit that happened. Dad's side, not so much.) and Mom herself got knocked up, had to marry the man and well, here I am, all fucked up because dad's family were a bunch of white-supremacist German-American arseholes who repressed everything but their rage and anger, and took it out on their children. Dad never HIT mom, but his own horrid childhood (and undiagnosed epilepsy because doctors = money and money that could be spent elsewhere - like on booze and personal fun items by his father) made him sure as fuck verbally abuse her and emotionally abuse her. But he WORKED (gruntflexfart) and she stayed home and took care of us kids until we were older and in school, but she always had "pin money" careers. Never mind how her weight went up and down, she felt like shit if she was heavy, etc, and passed that down onto us. I could get really in-depth, but suffice it to say, being raised in the 1950s blow-back in the 70s and 80s was a fucking TRIP and why I've been in therapy for the past 30 years.
What I am trying to say is:
PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE THIS 1950S SHIT AND WANT TO RETURN TO IT BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF CHANGE AND PROGRESS THANKS TO MCCARTHYISM AND RACISM AND I DO NOT SEE IT CHANGING ANYTIME SOON
And that, quite frankly, scares the hell out of me. The younger generations are being poisoned by this shit, too.
Don't let it poison you, gentle reader.
Every actor should be this loud about their characters' homoerotic relationships with other men. Rip to the only real ally.
ALT
