Prohbition On PBS

[debrand]

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition ... 4Aod5B4h3g

An excellent series about Prohibition is showing for three nights on PBS. If you missed last night's episode, you can catch up tonight.

Certain aspects of the series might destroy fundies worship of times past. First, it went into detail about women not having rights or the ability to leave a bad marriage. Husbands were free to spend all their money, beat or rape their wives, if they chose. Women had very little power to help their children.

At one point, most people drank 2% beer. Eventually stronger alcohol became more common.

It was considered manly to drink. It was expected that men who worked hard all week would want to relax on Friday night with the boys. So, it was a man's right-if he wished- to spend all his money and ignore his family's needs.

By the end of the 19th century, reformers got the age of consent laws raised from ten years to sixteen. The age of consent was ten before that period!

:shock:

Racism of new immigrants was part of the reason that prohibition passed.

Fundies and many groups look to the past as an idyllic time period, but it was far from ideal

[Nurse Jenna]

They (fundies) will just have to revise Prohibition era just like they revised dark ages, renaissance period, Victorian era, and early American history. It's going to be Vision Forum's next pet project.

[debrand]

They (fundies) will just have to revise Prohibition era just like they revised dark ages, renaissance period, Victorian era, and early American history. It's going to be Vision Forum's next pet project.

In their version, manly, Anglo-Saxon men-with no help from their stay at home wives-unanimously decided to forgo alcohol but their efforts were hampered by gays and feminists.

[NurseNell]

At one point, most people drank 2% beer. Eventually stronger alcohol became more common.

For hundreds of years beer was safe than water so everyone, including children, drank beer. Maybe 2% is what was known as small beer? Small beer was for children.

[ADoyle90815]

For hundreds of years beer was safe than water so everyone, including children, drank beer. Maybe 2% is what was known as small beer? Small beer was for children.

Small beer was also what people drank in the morning before coffee and tea became popular drinks.