Perch on the edge. You aren't supposed to sit back in furniture like that. It was really made for birds. The victorians just misunderstood it's true purpose due to excessive corsets and absynth causing a general lack of oxygen intake.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What a horrible time period.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure we should be judging any other periods right now.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At least we have comfy sofa.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Our legacy will be an extremely poor human rights record, but also comfy couches.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

great if you had a penis.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You could say that about most, if not all, of history.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully it’s just written history, maybe men haven’t always treated women shitty…

I always enjoyed thinking we were making progress on this, but between Trump and Hegseth I realize Atwood was right and I’m an idiot.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

societal progress is rarely felt by those who start it.

there is progress as much as there is regression.

I'd like to think that the fact that 80 years ago women were expected to "stay home and take care of the kids" and today that's generally not even a choice, that progress is winning.

then again, the only reason why it was allowed to win is because capitalist growth demanded more workers...

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

80 years ago women were expected to “stay home and take care of the kids”

Ironically, 80 years ago was immediately after American women had just won WWII (checks nervously to make sure we're not on ml) by going into the factories and making the weapons that the men needed to fulfill their proper role of going out and dying. The women being homemakers shit was a calculated strategy to give their jobs back to the men who survived.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Excepting that part of the world that has fish that swim up your penis.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Seems like people back then put a lot of effort into making their lives miserable, not like today where it just happens automatically.