What about when Bill Bell had Victor spank Nikki for her misbehaviour?

A lot of things that wouldn't fly today went through w/o comment because it was a different time. Simple as that.

That is what some people fail to understand by constantly judging things by today's standards .

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

A lot of things that wouldn't fly today went through w/o comment because it was a different time. Simple as that.

Of course, but even if we totally know that in our minds, we can still experience emotional surprise when watching it.  Both things can be true.   

Edited November 25, 20232 yr by janea4old

On 11/23/2023 at 4:35 PM, Paul Raven said:

Ummm, men allowing women to have careers ? 

Look at the initial years of the character dynamics I listed.

During the 70s, and before, many men didn't want their wives to have careers. Many made them leave their careers. Yeah, it wouldn't have been unheard of for a man to want his wife to stop practicing medicine.

It's in fact true that men, especially then, felt threatened by career women.

 

@j swiftAs far as me being in incel -- I idolize Lady Lovelace, Lillian Gilberth, Lillian Gish, Dee Dee Allen, Pauline Kael, June Havoc (along with many other women. I don't like idiots, man or woman. I don't like either men or women who feel either sex is better than one or worse than one. I hate men who feel masculinity, and being a man, is superior. And I hate women who subscribe to that ideal as well. Further, I hate the ideal that women are somehow better.

 

@Paul Raven and @j swift Don't you dare think I hold archaic views with women and careers. If I have them I wouldn't have studied soap opera for 16 years.

Speaking on this topic, has there even been actual storyline of a woman being abused, like Ike/Tina, by their husband showcased on daytime? I know Curtis abused Kate on Days, but that was all backstory and happened offscreen. 

1 hour ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Speaking on this topic, has there even been actual storyline of a woman being abused, like Ike/Tina, by their husband showcased on daytime? I know Curtis abused Kate on Days, but that was all backstory and happened offscreen. 

On Days back in the 70s, Mickey and Maggie’s neighbor was being abused by her husband.

Plus Curt and Leora Sanders on AMC in 1981 and that one couple with Craig Wasson as the husband on OLTL in 1991.