Comments on: Ghosts Of Christmas’ Past: Toys http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/ Where Hunters Gather Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:23:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Charlotte http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/#comment-53516 Charlotte Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:11:14 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/#comment-53516 And no wonder that generation of women became teachers, nurses or stewardesses (stewardi?) Nowadays, boys and girls can blast people away in their video games and use “violent’ action figures too!" What exactly are you talking about? The girls the got Empress desks were younger than Hillary Rodham, for example. I got an empress desk for Christmas 1962. I was ten. By the time I graduated from high school in 1970, the idea of housewifery was already much in question and most girls with good grades were making alternate preparations, though many were still saying "i won't bother with taking that class because I'll just get married." Ten years later, married or divorced, many were taking "that class." The generation born in the 40s and 50s were the "crazy feminists" everybody hates now. Comments like yours' make me know why. How quickly they forget. And no wonder that generation of women became teachers, nurses or stewardesses (stewardi?) Nowadays, boys and girls can blast people away in their video games and use “violent’ action figures too!”

What exactly are you talking about? The girls the got Empress desks were younger than Hillary Rodham, for example.
I got an empress desk for Christmas 1962. I was ten. By the time I graduated from high school in 1970, the idea of housewifery was already much in question and most girls with good grades were making alternate preparations, though many were still saying “i won’t bother with taking that class because I’ll just get married.” Ten years later, married or divorced, many were taking “that class.”
The generation born in the 40s and 50s were the “crazy feminists” everybody hates now. Comments like yours’ make me know why. How quickly they forget.

]]> By: Collectors’ Quest » Blog Archive » The More Things Change… Vintage Women’s Publications http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/#comment-43919 Collectors’ Quest » Blog Archive » The More Things Change… Vintage Women’s Publications Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:25:33 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/#comment-43919 [...] While I spend lots of my time — one could easily argue that I spend too much of my time — mocking magazines, catalogs, and holiday crafts of yore, what is equally readily identifiable is that we women have not come a long way, baby. No matter what the Career Girls Game may try to tell us. [...] [...] While I spend lots of my time — one could easily argue that I spend too much of my time — mocking magazines, catalogs, and holiday crafts of yore, what is equally readily identifiable is that we women have not come a long way, baby. No matter what the Career Girls Game may try to tell us. [...]

]]> By: Val Ubell http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/#comment-37199 Val Ubell Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:59:01 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2007/12/10/ghosts-of-christmas-past-toys/#comment-37199 Boy, how did kids ever make it through alive? All sorts of risks! And no wonder that generation of women became teachers, nurses or stewardesses (stewardi?) Nowadays, boys and girls can blast people away in their video games and use "violent' action figures too! Boy, how did kids ever make it through alive? All sorts of risks! And no wonder that generation of women became teachers, nurses or stewardesses (stewardi?) Nowadays, boys and girls can blast people away in their video games and use “violent’ action figures too!

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