Let's do the time warp again.

[davywavy]

My eye was drawn to this article in the news this morning. I'm sure some of my friends list will be outraged by these relationships, whilst some, like me, will just find it funny.

Thinking about it, if this is all it takes to get paid a fat sum by the press these days, I reckon I could do that. In fact, given that my idea of romance is to use a slightly smaller club, in some ways I already do.
David, who prefers to be called Og, lives in a cave with his girlfriend, "Wum-mann" as she likes to be known.
"Me see David as breadwinner", said Wu-mann. "Me like him bring home big brontosaurus for dinner, then drag me by hair to special cave".
In reply, David (or Og) grunts and scratches himself.

But what do my lady readers think?

Comments

[godzuki.livejournal.com]

I think im going to go round to that 30s woman house and act in fitting with the era, she looks like a deep one and im taking my shotgun.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen her husband - apparently he cannot stand the light.

[tzel.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Deep Ones:
http://www.cthulhu-themovie.com/

[(Anonymous)]

Two thoughts came into my head - the 50s house looks like the Flintstones, so I know where you got the caveman idea from, and no-one seemed to find 'spending hours in teh interwebs looking for stuff for their period lifestyle' in the slightest bit ironic.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm disappointed they didn't show the couple where he lives in a mews flat in W1 and wears Savile Row suits, she wears a leather catsuit and drives a nippy little convertible, and together they fight crime. I'm sure they must exist.

H

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

That may be my niche.

[medusa-nw.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, they may not call it that, but it's just another fetish. It's dressing up in outfits and living out a fantasy, in the case of these women a permanent slightly sub situation. I can't see the harm in it if that's what they want to do, but wouldn't read anything more into it than that, it's not some sort of anti-feminist backlash!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You clever womon. Me get club.

[taimatsu]

*nod* It's a similar kind of negotiated role arrangement, you're quite right. Reminds me somewhat of the whole Aristasia shebang (Google has the info...)

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

That is -exactly- what I was thinking. Different strokes for different folks. Just because some people classified with label 'x' (in this case 'female') like something doesn't mean all of them everywhere secretly do.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

I think the first one should re-think wearing yellow with her hair colour.

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

I think you are very right about that.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It's a good reflection of the style, though.

[lexx-uk.livejournal.com]

Is it time to dust off the ol Bing records?

In all that is fair and good, they seem happy, are harming nobody.....live and let live.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Do you need an excuse?

[lexx-uk.livejournal.com]

I can agree with your comments on the 1930's-50s not being the movie paradise that these ladys think. Yes there was a bug fall in crime rates in the 40's but that could be due to the fact that every available body was busy fighting for their preferred Ideaology. The 50's actually saw one of the highest crime rates in the last 100 years due to lots of young men who were only skilled in fighting struggling to make a living in shattered nations.

I think your paleoanthropological view is certainly interesting I would like to know your source?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the thirties couple do away with modern dentistry, antibiotics and pain relief? Just a thought...

[elbly.livejournal.com]

I would love to live the 1950's fantasy for a month... that'd be amazing! But no more than that, I'd get seriously bored of having to do my hair every day, and my skin would look terrible for all that make-up.

[(Anonymous)]

A whole month without youporn? Impossible.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

If they're managing to support a rather nice house, antiques, and a classic car, on only one salary, he must be earning a LOT of money.

It's harmless, I suppose. It's just a bit sad that they all apparently believe that in order to live by the values of a certain era (be nice to people, stay at home and do the cooking, or whatever), you also need to dress in the style of that era. I can't see any connection between the two, myself.

Just two words...

[applez.livejournal.com]

Holy Crap!

Re: Just two words...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Gets you going, hmn?

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

I've no idea if someone has pointed you at this, but it seems appropriate given your previous posts: The Parrallel Universe Film Guide (http://www.parallelfilmguide.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You know, it sometimes really frustrates me that some people get paid for these jokes.

[song-of-copper.livejournal.com]

I think they've got it all wrong here.

If you were going to pretend to live in the 1950s, wouldn't it be more fun to go the bohemian beatnik route, daddy-o?!

And the 40s... resistance spy, with gadgets hidden in every lipstick?

The 1930s: ambiguous nightclub singer dressed in a man's tuxedo?

Why bother to go to all that trouble just to live like a boring housewife?! No imagination, some people... ;-)