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Originally Posted by palsera27
A woman who wanted to go to college was looked down. An unwed woman was looked down on. People with disabilities and mental illness were looked down on as if they brought on themselves.
The 1950s is referred to as “era of conformity” you ether behaved a certain way or became rejected by society.
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I think looking down on certain sectors of population comes to where's the shift. Nowadays there's a shift on utilitarian functionality. You don't look down on women, disabled or mentally ill for their condition on itself, but for their diminished productivity to the laboral market and economy. A person who has to take post-natal permissions for his/her baby, lots of medical licenses and such, with our current laboral protection standards will get some damage on his/her career (gaps, getting fired), résumé, and so on. HR staff will keep their focus on maximize productivity instead of social integration of marginalized, less productive members. As those get poor employment options, their capacity to become autonomous will reduce as well, being a remarkable hindrance to their dignity and projected image onto others (who will struggle at the idea of thinking one's life is not only the result of one's decisions).
Figure out what was the shift on the 50s. Then on another times.