I get amused when frothers talk about moral decline.
When I dig into ancestry for someone, I always warn them they might not like what comes back.
Trust me: Your ancestors were just as lusty, just as naughty, and just as gay as today.
They just weren't allowed to talk about it
When I dig into ancestry for someone, I always warn them they might not like what comes back.
Trust me: Your ancestors were just as lusty, just as naughty, and just as gay as today.
They just weren't allowed to talk about it
And to be honest, I always find that both occasionally uplifting AND super sad.
You get very good at reading between the lines and seeing the relationships that existed, and which families found ways to work into a loving narrative, but also relationships never allowed to be.
You get very good at reading between the lines and seeing the relationships that existed, and which families found ways to work into a loving narrative, but also relationships never allowed to be.
You also see who has been a very, very bad lad (or lass) and frantically moved half way across the country in order to restart their life somewhere else.
Sometimes inventing half their family history in the process.
There's a few of these in my own family history.
Sometimes inventing half their family history in the process.
There's a few of these in my own family history.
Sometimes you just discover some aspect of family history that everyone decided was just so out of order that they almost completely wiped a person out of the collective memory.
Often for the kind of stuff that would provoke headlines today, but back then could be swept under.
Often for the kind of stuff that would provoke headlines today, but back then could be swept under.
Anyway. No real point to this thread. Just seen a few more moral panic tweets than usual in my timeline.
And I think it's always healthy to remember that the past was just the same as the present. At least in terms of how humans think and behave.
What changes is the narratives
And I think it's always healthy to remember that the past was just the same as the present. At least in terms of how humans think and behave.
What changes is the narratives
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