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Topic History of: It was alright in the 70s
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
The quotey button wont work for me. 
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"I never heard that, what do you mean? In my 70's days it meant force had been used to penetrate. Non-penetrative force would have been "sexual assault".
I only met one woman who claimed to be raped. She didn't report it, but instead walked across the same park each night hoping for a re-run (Turnham Green, IIRC). She was atypical, had the reputation of being a nympho nutter, so she might have made the whole thing up as a fantasy.
OTOH, I knew several who were flashed, and saw at least one direct assault with my own eyes (blatant nipple tweak. The perp got a slap). It never seemed to affect any of the women though, were they made of tougher stuff back then?"
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I am sure if she had really been raped she would never have gone near the park again. I think sexual assaults and exposure have always been deeply upsetting, but we hadn't been told it would ruin our lives so we just got on with it and tried to forget mostly, I think.
If a couple were being a bit too full on in public we would say "They were raping each other all over Gullivers Nightclub"
It seems very insensitive nowadays.  |
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corevalue |
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Chris Retro wrote:
Andy wrote:
Wendy Craig from Butterflies exclaiming "I want to be raped" is something you would certainly never see on TV today, apart from a program out to portray how bad things were in the 70s.
What summed "It Was Alright In The 70's" up perfectly was the complete failure to mention that Butterflies was written by Carla Lane - not just a woman, but a woman of principle.
I also noticed that in between the contrived gasps and hand-wringing we had contemporary ad breaks featuring semi-naked women moaning orgasmically (for Mitsubishi cars) and other piffle being sold by sexual imagery.
I look forward to a programme where modern-day comedians pore through what the tabloid press were publishing in the 1970's instead of cherry-picking random bits of out-of-context TV programmes.
They also failed to mention that in the seventies "rape" was used to describe "dallying with gusto"
I never heard that, what do you mean? In my 70's days it meant force had been used to penetrate. Non-penetrative force would have been "sexual assault".
I only met one woman who claimed to be raped. She didn't report it, but instead walked across the same park each night hoping for a re-run (Turnham Green, IIRC). She was atypical, had the reputation of being a nympho nutter, so she might have made the whole thing up as a fantasy.
OTOH, I knew several who were flashed, and saw at least one direct assault with my own eyes (blatant nipple tweak. The perp got a slap). It never seemed to affect any of the women though, were they made of tougher stuff back then? |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
Chris Retro wrote:
Andy wrote:
Wendy Craig from Butterflies exclaiming "I want to be raped" is something you would certainly never see on TV today, apart from a program out to portray how bad things were in the 70s.
What summed "It Was Alright In The 70's" up perfectly was the complete failure to mention that Butterflies was written by Carla Lane - not just a woman, but a woman of principle.
I also noticed that in between the contrived gasps and hand-wringing we had contemporary ad breaks featuring semi-naked women moaning orgasmically (for Mitsubishi cars) and other piffle being sold by sexual imagery.
I look forward to a programme where modern-day comedians pore through what the tabloid press were publishing in the 1970's instead of cherry-picking random bits of out-of-context TV programmes.
They also failed to mention that in the seventies "rape" was used to describe "dallying with gusto" |
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Pru wrote:
It makes me really angry when C4 and BBC Four make these snide little programmes, suggesting everything about TV in the 1970s was naff, naive and safe. It's a smug, sneering attitude ...
Perhaps it's related to the attitudes behind those contest-type reality shows, Weakest Link, Big Brother, etc. They all seem to be about humiliation and sneering at others. |
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Chris Retro |
Andy wrote:
Wendy Craig from Butterflies exclaiming "I want to be raped" is something you would certainly never see on TV today, apart from a program out to portray how bad things were in the 70s.
What summed "It Was Alright In The 70's" up perfectly was the complete failure to mention that Butterflies was written by Carla Lane - not just a woman, but a woman of principle.
I also noticed that in between the contrived gasps and hand-wringing we had contemporary ad breaks featuring semi-naked women moaning orgasmically (for Mitsubishi cars) and other piffle being sold by sexual imagery.
I look forward to a programme where modern-day comedians pore through what the tabloid press were publishing in the 1970's instead of cherry-picking random bits of out-of-context TV programmes. |
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