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Don’t disappear from your parents. You have no idea how much it hurts them.

IAmEveryone 9y ago
The ads are quite excellent at tackling the #1 reason I have ever had not to call: avoiding all the why-do-nerver-call accusations. Of course, this being the 60s, many young people probably had many valid reasons to be angry. From what I gather, the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible. My father was kicked out for having a black friend, and my mother was told by her professor that no girl was ever going to become a doctor at his faculty. They met taking LSD somewhere in California, made a modest fortune, and only ever went back to piss on a new grave.
- sulam 9y ago
  Cool, we can share! My mother got kicked out of her house because she had the nerve to 1) get pregnant at 17 and 2) want to keep the baby (me!). Single mothers don't usually go on to make a fortune and she's no exception, but I turned out alright.
  - IAmEveryone 9y ago
    Congrats on a cool mother! (I only included their later success in my story because the certain future of poverty was the most prominent of the warnings they got)
- coldtea 9y ago
  >From what I gather, the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible. My father was kicked out for having a black friend, and my mother was told by her professor that no girl was ever going to become a doctor at his faculty Well, before that generation, the black friend would be a slave or easily lynched, and the girl wouldn't even get into the university (or be able to vote). So I really doubt the Greatest Generation itself created the "most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible".
  - IAmEveryone 9y ago
    Yes-history arcs towards justice. I believe the 60s counterculture was mostly a reaction to the “stuffiness” (and Vietnam), but that sentiment is a lot harder to illustrate with examples.
- meri_dian 9y ago
  "the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible." Ha! You apparently don't know much about the rest of the world or of human history. Go open a textbook or read the news to find out what sort of societies are really "possible". Considering the 60s were a time when society was remaking itself by overthrowing millennia of acceptable practice - do you think that's easy? - it would be silly to expect change to happen overnight. Societies don't exist in a vacuum.
  - dang 9y ago
    Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how ignorant another comment may be. It only makes this place worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- patrickg_zill 9y ago
  re: "the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible." Just wondering what amount of history you've studied/read, to come to this conclusion?
epoxyhockey 9y ago
I’m not saying it is the case here, but there are perfectly legitimate reasons for why someone would want to disappear from their parents, no matter how well written the parents’ classified ad may be.
coldtea 9y ago
>Don’t disappear from your parents. You have no idea how much it hurts them. Well, you also have no idea how much some parents hurt their children, from beatings and abuse to sexual stuff...

The ads are quite excellent at tackling the #1 reason I have ever had not to call: avoiding all the why-do-nerver-call accusations. Of course, this being the 60s, many young people probably had many valid reasons to be angry. From what I gather, the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible. My father was kicked out for having a black friend, and my mother was told by her professor that no girl was ever going to become a doctor at his faculty. They met taking LSD somewhere in California, made a modest fortune, and only ever went back to piss on a new grave.

sulam 9y ago
Cool, we can share! My mother got kicked out of her house because she had the nerve to 1) get pregnant at 17 and 2) want to keep the baby (me!). Single mothers don't usually go on to make a fortune and she's no exception, but I turned out alright.
- IAmEveryone 9y ago
  Congrats on a cool mother! (I only included their later success in my story because the certain future of poverty was the most prominent of the warnings they got)
coldtea 9y ago
>From what I gather, the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible. My father was kicked out for having a black friend, and my mother was told by her professor that no girl was ever going to become a doctor at his faculty Well, before that generation, the black friend would be a slave or easily lynched, and the girl wouldn't even get into the university (or be able to vote). So I really doubt the Greatest Generation itself created the "most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible".
- IAmEveryone 9y ago
  Yes-history arcs towards justice. I believe the 60s counterculture was mostly a reaction to the “stuffiness” (and Vietnam), but that sentiment is a lot harder to illustrate with examples.
meri_dian 9y ago
"the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible." Ha! You apparently don't know much about the rest of the world or of human history. Go open a textbook or read the news to find out what sort of societies are really "possible". Considering the 60s were a time when society was remaking itself by overthrowing millennia of acceptable practice - do you think that's easy? - it would be silly to expect change to happen overnight. Societies don't exist in a vacuum.
- dang 9y ago
  Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how ignorant another comment may be. It only makes this place worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
patrickg_zill 9y ago
re: "the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible." Just wondering what amount of history you've studied/read, to come to this conclusion?

epoxyhockey 9y ago

I’m not saying it is the case here, but there are perfectly legitimate reasons for why someone would want to disappear from their parents, no matter how well written the parents’ classified ad may be.

coldtea 9y ago

>Don’t disappear from your parents. You have no idea how much it hurts them. Well, you also have no idea how much some parents hurt their children, from beatings and abuse to sexual stuff...