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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.then next generation, the one after that, they won't be the ones that fought, but that does not mean it will go out of following generations minds, not with Remembrance services every November, and people who's families served in WW1, WW2. Books, films, theatre, tv, it's not a subject that goes away.
I am pretty sure I have read somewhere that they identified both the man and the woman - the sailor and the nurse - in this iconic photo, and whilst it purports to celebrate the joy of the moment, the woman was not all that happy about being kissed- in fact, it sounded like what she was saying was that she was grabbed and kissed, that he was probably drunk, grabbed her in a strong, vice-like grip, and in fact was non too happy about the whole trhing.
That can't be considered living memory though, can it? At some point everyone who was alive in WWII will be dead. At that point, the War will be out of "Living memory". There's no room for argument about that, it's a fact of life. That day, when it comes, will surely be sad in itself. We'll lose connection to one of the most terrible events in history, beyond what we can get from films and books.
emmie, "within living memory" means that there are people still alive who remember the actual event.
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while of course people from later generations will remember what they have been told, its not "living memory"
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while of course people from later generations will remember what they have been told, its not "living memory"
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/// the woman was not all that happy about being kissed- in fact, it sounded like what she was saying was that she was grabbed and kissed, that he was probably drunk, grabbed her in a strong, vice-like grip, and in fact was non too happy about the whole trhing. ///
Yes but in those days women showed their distaste by a good slap across the face of the guy, nowadays it would be considered sexual assault and the poor guy most likely hauled before the courts.
/// the woman was not all that happy about being kissed- in fact, it sounded like what she was saying was that she was grabbed and kissed, that he was probably drunk, grabbed her in a strong, vice-like grip, and in fact was non too happy about the whole trhing. ///
Yes but in those days women showed their distaste by a good slap across the face of the guy, nowadays it would be considered sexual assault and the poor guy most likely hauled before the courts.
Well, we can obviously never know for sure, but the article I read suggested she found the advances, the handling, and the kiss unsolicited and unwelcome.
You talk about the "poor guy" being done for sexual assault should such a thing happen now, the implication of that being that you felt it was better "back in the day", correct?
So "back in the day", unless the woman flat out physically defends herself, you believe it is perfectly acceptable for any passing male stranger to kiss and embrace any adult female he feels like, without first making sure that such advances might not be welcomed?
It seems to me that it is better for women that times have changed, and that now they do have protections against being groped/kissed etc against their will.
You talk about the "poor guy" being done for sexual assault should such a thing happen now, the implication of that being that you felt it was better "back in the day", correct?
So "back in the day", unless the woman flat out physically defends herself, you believe it is perfectly acceptable for any passing male stranger to kiss and embrace any adult female he feels like, without first making sure that such advances might not be welcomed?
It seems to me that it is better for women that times have changed, and that now they do have protections against being groped/kissed etc against their will.
LazyGun
The slap across the cheek worked all those years ago, and there was not a mass assault on women as you seem to suggest.
Incidentally I was once pinched on the bottom by an unknown female while i was leaning over a shopping trolley in my supermarket.
I didn't take the woman to court we just laughed it off, and there has not been an escalation of men having their bottoms pinched by uncontrollable females, not in my supermarket at least.
The slap across the cheek worked all those years ago, and there was not a mass assault on women as you seem to suggest.
Incidentally I was once pinched on the bottom by an unknown female while i was leaning over a shopping trolley in my supermarket.
I didn't take the woman to court we just laughed it off, and there has not been an escalation of men having their bottoms pinched by uncontrollable females, not in my supermarket at least.
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