Time Warp

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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

[rm.livejournal.com]

Waiting to post until I am back home.

I think, aesthetics and personal preferences aside it's stupid. Never surrender your resources.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

I don't have an issue with the clothing (I've spent ages this past few weeks looking for 1940s designs for the 1940's night at the Hub convention) or the interior design but the attitudes are just plain insane. I have no patience with a woman who doesn't know who the prime minister is because she doesn't read the papers.

As for the BDSM thing - hell whatever floats your boat - we all like different things.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Interesting article! I think for me it's not so much the conscious decision to live their lives like that - if you want to wear a bunny suit all day, go nuts - as it is the obvious cherrypicking of history. All of them kept saying how wonderful, caring, and friendly everyone was back then, and each time I kept filling in "...so long as you were white." Likewise all of the bits about how you didn't have these silly ideas about women working, which again only tended to apply if you were white and/or not of the lower classes.

Plus there's the aspect of how they don't want to read today's news because it's so unpleasant. Fine, but did they ever read history? I especially boggle at how the 1940s woman could claim such a thing, given, yanno, WORLD WAR II. I mean unless her antique-filled house also includes blackout curtains and a bomb shelter she's kinda doing it wrong.

Not that I'm saying that they have to, just be honest about what they're doing. They want to live in a happy fluffy world where they don't want to think about sad things and they like styles from the 30s/40s/50s. It's not that those were magical times where we all farted rainbows, yanno?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

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Well. I reckon it takes all kinds. My daddy tole me that.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Their worlds will come crashing down the moment one of them gets sick. Has the woman dedicated to the 30s lifestyle ever taken antibiotics? Do the ones living in the 40s and 50s observe strict rationing? I notice that they've chosen eras which are relatively comfortable. They're not, for example, living in cottages in rural late 18th century Yorkshire.

I love the aesthetic, but...

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

God, but the stuff... the room design, the dresses... do we know that they really do have those authentic period attitudes they're claiming, or did they just want to show off their super-snazzy setups in a photo-shoot?

[sanginmychains.livejournal.com]

Notice how, for most of these women, fully living in their chosen time period seems to come down to dresses and cake baking? If you're going to inhabit a time period, inhabit it. This is living in a dollhouse in the worst way. I don't object to a lot of choices, but I object to an adult without mental illness or disability choosing to be a child, permanently.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I think they are way creepy, less because of the 24/7 thing than because of the Gratuitious Social Commentary. If you want to say "hey, you know I love bakelite and I hate Velcro and my hubby loves it when I cut the crust off his sandwiches, you may think it's wacky but it works for us" then I might not really want to hang around it and I worry a little about your kids, but what the hell, more power to you.

But when it turns into "these days are just so terrible because women want equality" then I start to get tetchy. To put it at the most schoolyard level possible, they dissed me first. :)