[lbo-talk] Re: Hitch on Hope

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I think this whole thread is stupid. There are
assholes in all generations. Today's seems to think
that Adam Sandler is funny. At least Bob Hope had some
wit, even if he was a lecherous sexist pig. I don't
think my parents' generation -- my Dad was 4-F'ed out
of the Navy in early 42, my father in law was a combat
Marine in the Pacific -- was any more authoritarian or
jerky on average than most. More sexist than ours,
sure, at least in terms of overt assumptions. (I was
told growing up that I do things not permitted my
younger sisters because "he's a boy and he's older.").
That stopped by the mid-70s when neither mys sister
nor my mother --who used to say it -- woiuld put up
with that any more. But for the resat, phooey. Oh, one
other diff, the Depression geberation was in facta 
lot more money conscious, that's true. jks

--- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
> 
> ``...I would guess that it has more to do with
> authoritarian attitudes
> about gender and family structure being more
> prevalent when they were
> growing up than with the generational experience of
> depression and
> war.'' Jacob Conrad
> 
> ------
> 
> Yeah. That was my impression too. It was as if I was
> looking into the
> the 19thC and seeing what my grandparents (born ca.
> 1870-80s) were
> like. 
> 
> But I also agree the Depression and WWII didn't
> help.
> 
> Chuck Grimes
> 
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