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Dear_Prudence

(866 posts) Wed Aug 21, 2024, 01:10 PM Aug 2024

I Love Lucy redux

I just flipped on an episode. Lucy bought herself a new hat behind Ricky's back so he grabbed her and spanked her. These scenes from old sitcoms used to make me shrug. They seemed dated, out-of-touch, history, another time, didn't age well. But today my stomach tightened. Maybe the Magas will be adding this corporal-punishment-for-wives episode to the Project 2025 training films.

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I Love Lucy redux (Original Post) Dear_Prudence Aug 2024 OP

To the Moon! Arne Aug 2024 #1

Dingbat! nt Dear_Prudence Aug 2024 #2

While Lucille Ball may have been a very good business woman, I never liked... 3catwoman3 Aug 2024 #3

Arne

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1. To the Moon!

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Wed Aug 21, 2024, 01:12 PM

Aug 2024

Dear_Prudence

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2. Dingbat! nt

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Wed Aug 21, 2024, 01:16 PM

Aug 2024

3catwoman3

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3. While Lucille Ball may have been a very good business woman, I never liked...

Reply to Dear_Prudence (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2024, 01:27 PM

Aug 2024

...the character of Lucy. Even as a little girl, I found it very off-putting that a woman had to act stupid and be manipulative in order to get what she wanted or needed. I don't love Lucy.

I am grateful to her for making Star Trek possible.

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