Anyway with my life stabilising a lot more now, I have experienced a resurgence of my vintage loving self and have had great fun browsing vintage stalls or online shops for inspiration (can't afford anything, I really have to get to sewing again...), looking up events to attend and watching media about retro lifestyles and was reminded...rather sadly, that the uber - norms are just as disparaging over people who want to live a traditional life as those of us living in other thoroughly modern alternative ways....
For example,some comments regarding Neo-traditional types in the 2009 Channel 4 feature, Time Warp Wives:
I've seen it too I think, they even have 1950s houses - all kitted out. it was quite weird but worth a watch, if not to confirm you are sane, and these people clearly are notInsane? Really?
I felt there were other issues going on to be honestYep, it can't be that they just simply do not want to live like everyone else.
It seems I can't win approval by those types whichever way I bend, which since society sees me as terribly bent anyway I suppose I am lucky that I do not crave its approval.
That all three have found partners as committed to denial as they are is, we suppose, nice for them. But there is something deeply sad about adults who need this level of fantasy
I am really confused and, I must admit, a little irked, that people react with such abhorrence and disrespect to people who just like to dress in an old fashioned way and who don't think it necessary to have an Iphone, is modern society so very insecure that it just cannot cope with anyone stepping out of line by being different?
Peer Pressure to indulge in superficiality is nothing new, but I hate to see it so far from the school yard.
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