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That-Disaster-5746 t1_iu393az wrote
Reply to comment by amcfatboy in My great aunt Penny and my great uncle Joel a year before they were married in 1969. Out of five siblings, they’re the only couple still together today. by madzquinn7
You're more blunt than i wanted to be, but yeah. I don't get the BBC reference. What are you referring to? Not a Brit so I'm probably missing some cultural context.
That-Disaster-5746 t1_ity929h wrote
Reply to comment by HoldenMadicky in My great aunt Penny and my great uncle Joel a year before they were married in 1969. Out of five siblings, they’re the only couple still together today. by madzquinn7
In '69 it was rather a fad among young affluent women to have relationships with black men as a sort of protest to the racism of the affluent middle class. A "be the change you seek" sort of thing. I'd say in all likelihood it was more likely in '69 than '79. By '79 the idealism of the 60s was gone, absorbed as the young people got their corporate jobs and raised families, and recession and inflation were gutting the middle class.
That-Disaster-5746 t1_ir19jou wrote
Reply to comment by LilSpermCould in Drew Barrymore shaking things up on David Letterman's show, 1995. by L0st_in_the_Stars
Scandalous? Hardly. It was the 90s. No one cared. I can't imagine it happening today though, those late night shows are so uptight.
That-Disaster-5746 t1_iu39lhm wrote
Reply to comment by krevko in My great aunt Penny and my great uncle Joel a year before they were married in 1969. Out of five siblings, they’re the only couple still together today. by madzquinn7
IDK, I've known some middle class white women who are 60s leftists from the SF bay area. I'm not going to go into the deeper motivations other than all of them had very successful workaholic fathers. Anyway, marriages/children were pretty common.