Time Warp

[fictional]

Time Warp Wives.

What do you lot think of this? I am at a loss. I never know what to make of these people. On the one hand, I admire their dedication to detail. For another, I am really into vanished worlds as well. (Hello, cosplay! Dressing up is awesome. Recreating lost worlds, equally so.) In addition, it's nice to live in a time, where people can be this weird, and not get, y'know, stoned to death or whatever. I support people's constructed, fictional lives, no matter what fashion, as long as they're not hurting anyone, - and it's great that they've been able to find people of like mind to live with etc.

BUT. They are crazy. tin. hats. Like, I get the desire, but not the 24/7 of it all, you know. Obsession can be taken too far.

Here's the other thing. It's like the male-dom thing in bdsm. Like, I've been known to find it really hot. BUT. in sex! Not in real life, right? Politically I find it to be repugnant and stupid. (Femme-dom too, for that matter, but you know what I mean.) For me, the great thing about recreation of these vanished times, means that we can keep the things we like for play, and lose the things we don't. Also I like running water, the internet, eyeglasses & contact lenses, etc etc.

I just don't know.

Thoughts?

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

That's actually a good question. B/c part of our time is just how much things changed over the decades. I don't know what it was like in the UK, but certainly in the US you had folks living like the 1890s for a while, simply because technology neither evolved nor spread that fast.

And, as you say, it's a benefit of our time that these women can make the choice. Feminism today says that if you want to have this kind of arrangement with your partner, go nuts. But back then you didn't have the choice. Ignoring obvious issues like what if you wanted to work or wanted a divorce to get away from your abusive husband, what about that one woman who said she's purposefully not having children? Did she think that would've been an allowable choice back then given the state of birth control then vs now?

(Also I am amused by the 1950s woman who says she doesn't drink. If she's living the 50s sans alcohol, she's definitely doing it wrong ;) )

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Good point. I forget that the quick rush through of period per decade is also new! I wonder if the 1950s woman also smokes? If you take it to the logical extreme, then also all new knowledge that we've discovered should also be taboo, no?