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These posts are such a cool way to know how things were back then. Didn't know people knew smoking was bad for example! Also expected one really sexist answer
Yeah I'm also surprised at the lack of sexism. I expected society to be way more patriarchical back then
It is nice to see some real examples of historical attitude, rather than the sweeping generalizations about how we’re the first decent generation emerging from a pit of darkness that is everything before 2010.
According to my grandmother (born 1907 and asked long ago), it was a little like sugar in the 1970s: it’s clearly not good for you, but it hadn’t been connected with cancer or significant diseases to the degree that a random individual would know about it.