Jackson Jambalaya

Modern women prefer bad boys. Good boys are boring

I've seen some women struggle with things that a good corset could assist with...

KF subscribed to the CL IN 1940?

Gee!

Because feminazi heads need something to heat them up on a crisp, cool Mississippi morning.

I hear ol’ Plain Priscilla was fancy when the lights went down.

...and I thought that the 'Husband as SLAVE' concept came about AFTER World War II. Apparently, not.

This L'il-Abner-Style ad salad was was whipped-up well in advance of our entry into World War Two. Was there already hysteria about CATCHING a man, before they were all drafted and then shipped-off?

I know two classic Norman English families in the Delta, who incurred irreparable damage, because several daughters married whatever men they could get (that hysteria, to marry "ANYTHING!"). The marrying-in men, had grating names, grating accents, crude families, and biometrics which did not meld well with Norman ones. Their children needed braces. The children were not as brilliant as one would expect. And nobody could stand to be around anyone else, because the marrying-in men were so crude and crazy and prone to losing money. Every one of those marrying-out daughters, spent the rest of her life, toiling to compensate for her husband's fecklessness - worrying, nonstop, about money.

But about 'Husband as Slave'... Most Americans, in '40, were descended from Indentured Servants - people displaced by England's 'Clearances' - or snatched off Great Britain's streets, and outright-sold into indentured servitude (with the assumption that they would be worked-to-death in the colonies). So, generations later, the idea of luring a man into an inescapable arrangement which would end with his perishing of exertion (Life Insurance, girls!!!), had certain precedents.

And then there were those 'Throw Your Life Away Movies' - conditioning girls to "fall in love!", and marry the broke nebbish who barely notices you, rather than the rich kombinator who worships you. (Dietrich, in 'Morocco', and Kim Novak in 'Picnic', being particularly stupid examples)

But this was the Jackson of 1940 - a town, like Greenville, which was more all-American than Southern. But while Greenville had its populace groomed & selected by its founding fathers (White Trash being especially unwelcome), Jackson was where you ended-up, when you had noplace else to go. The 'Queens' neighborhood - naturally integrated - prospering blacks and whites, side-by-side, working their way out of the Great Depression (still ongoing, in '40), being a good example of Jackson's spirit.

I find the blondness portrayed in this ad-sheet, to be perplexing. In a city so mixed, why are those cartoon people so blond? Was there some national source for the illustrations? Somewhere on the Great Lakes, maybe? Or did the Carpetbaggers running Jackson and its media, have their preferences? Or did blond heads simply require less ink?

Too, considering what L'il Abner was USED FOR (softcore purposes - I stumbled upon old Abner cartoons, in researching the word, 'Grandmammy', during Barbie Basset's persecutions - and those cartoons stopped just-short of showing Abner's and Daisy's bits), wouldn't girls be ASHAMED to be caught thinking Daisymae thoughts?

Most every nice guy I know (who has money) is married to a woman who loves to bitch. I was one until my wife died. I'm rich, in great physical shape, a nice guy and I hope to never marry again. I'm done being bitched at. When I kick around the idea of dating, my buddies give me the "are you nuts?" look.
If women would be nice and follow the ad then they and their husbands would be happier.

What's with HVAC companies' TV ads in the Jackson market, showing scary-bitchy women being mean to males? One had a scary-looking, Kathy-Hochul-lookalike "mom" with wicked witch arched eyebrows- flanked by glowering meth addicts, intimidating a clean-cut and polite boy (the kind a normal mom prays WILL date her daughter) into leaving her home. Following that, one presumes the boy never returns, and probably switches teams.

Another shows a goodlooking giant of a man, with a short, angry, red-faced wife, livid because he called the wrong AC repair service.

I wouldn't want adolescents in my charge viewing commercials like that - especially the boys.