People much less tough today?

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Does anyone else notice that it seems people were much tougher and more violent 50-100 years ago than they are today? Whenever I've watched 1930s movies, people were always hitting and slapping each other or grabbing each other by the collar over the littlest things. Just look at the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, or in any of the tough guy films with James Cagney or Humphrey Bogart, always knocking each other out every time someone annoyed them. And it was more that way in real life too. In real life then, laws about assault, back then people would never file charges like they do today over every time their boss, or teacher (corporal punishment was still legal and common), or every passersby in the street laid a hand on them (also still legal and more common). The police wouldn't care about people hitting and punching unless it was like attempted murder. Cops would often punch regular people just for discipline even over something not that serious. And, people were drafted to war, they weren't able to choose whether to join the military or not, they had to join and fight whether they wanted to or not. Are people really much weaker today than they were back in like the first half of the 20th century?

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    5 years ago

    yallre usin the 3 stooges as a yardstick for reality and societal change?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      People in real life back in the 1930s did slap and punch each other more than they do today, The three stooges probably exaggerated it for comic effect I'm sure.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
        5 years ago

        so stop buy and ill slap the fuck outta yall

        for nostalgias sakea course

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          5 years ago

          You gotta dress in a suit and top hat, call women dames, and use phrases like "what's the big idea?" or "why.. ya lousy mug! " like they did back then, and not say "fuck", if you wanta make it really look nostalgic.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            5 years ago

            And grab em by the collar before slapping them, and talk through clenched teeth with a gravely snarl. That'll sound 30s, guess you can tell I've watched a lot of 30s shit.

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  • nikkiclaire
    5 years ago

    They didn't live in a police state like we do now, as you mentioned.

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  • Nickvey
    5 years ago

    old movies were for entertainment , they were fiction.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      Yeah. I'm sure that the way The three stooges hit and slapped each other around was an exaggeration from how it was in real life for comic effect.

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  • CozmoWank
    5 years ago

    It's the feminization of our culture.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      It kinda seems that men have gotten more feminized, and women the total opposite. Back then, before the years of all the strong armed in your face feminism, women were much softer spoken, almost always wore dresses, and normally stood back and let men call the shots about everything. I don't know if I'd say women and men have switched places, but men passed some of their assertive power over to the women, where women's assertive levels went up some while men's levels went down some.

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      • ilovecrossdressing
        5 years ago

        Men getting more feminized, thats a good that means more cute boys <3

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  • jack_shephard
    5 years ago

    Didn't read the whole,but do you want people to behave like that,slapping & punching😂

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      Where people are hitting, shoving, and grabbing you by the collar all the time? No. I wouldn't want it like that again.

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      • lordofopinions
        5 years ago

        So why did you even bring it up? It seemed you were romanticizing the period now you say you don't it to happen in today's world. I'm confused.

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