Going to the university in the late 1950s and early 1960s I never heard a shock word in the classroom or between friends. And no shock words are spoken in our home, either today. The classroom was mostly all female (one male in one class) and if one girl wanted to be nasty instead of using a shock word to another girl, she merely asked the girl how did that girl get that nasty mark on her face or other imperfection. What I recall never hearing were dirty words known then as curse words (not cuss words because cuss was said to be an imperfect way of leaving out the r in curse words. We all know what they mean. Hearing such a word (never heard at home among parents raised by Victorian parents and grandparents) would feel like cold water being thrown in ones face. Maybe thats way I like the old movies from the 1940s and 1950s today, no swear words, just character-driven plot or light comedy and musicals or historical panoramas. The elementary school was far rougher in the way teachers roughed up students or more often threatened corporal punishment, but dragging students out of their seats was common or threatening slaps which never happened for confessions such as wanting out of the Glee club that was not of interest to a student who wanted into a science club....and what was disturbing was that girls were kept out of the engineering/technical high schools when they wanted to just build and invent educational projects. Later robot-building became popular, but that was in the 1980s. Going to elementary school 1946-early 1950s was more like listening to stories of what the teachers did during WWII. Fascinating, but not too revealing of what happened...just talk of which Pacific islands belonged to the USA. anne-hart-writes.blogspot/2014/09/why-my-college-life-was-like-back-in.html
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:15:43 +0000
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